Poetry

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

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  What Fresh Heaven

  Sebastian Langdell interviews Mary Jo Bang about her recent translation of Dante’s “Paradiso.”

  Sebastian LangdellDec 3

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  What the Laureate Left Out

  Heather Treseler accepts the challenge of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney,” a new “definitive collection” of the Irish poet’s work.

  Heather TreselerDec 2

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  Closing the Distance, Emerging from the Earth

  Nathan Xavier Osorio finds pain and tenderness in Donika Kelly’s newest poetry collection.

  Nathan Xavier OsorioNov 29

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Phases of the Quotidian

  C. Francis Fisher interviews Shangyang Fang about his new book “Study of Sorrow: Translations.”

  C. Francis FisherNov 24

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

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  Cisterns of Multiplicity

  Yvonne Kim invests in “The New Economy,” the latest poetry collection from Gabrielle Calvocoressi.

  Yvonne KimNov 22

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  How to Access Art

  Pasquale Toscano considers Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, “Hardly Creatures.”

  Pasquale ToscanoNov 20

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

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  I Could Smell Without Smelling

  Lindsey Webb follows Rainer Diana Hamilton’s paths through sensing and remembering in “Lilacs.”

  Lindsey WebbNov 1

  • Poetry

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  What Black Thing Have I Seen at a Museum?

  Mathangi Subramanian speaks to Donika Kelly about her new poetry collection, “The Natural Order of Things.”

  Mathangi SubramanianOct 26

  • Poetry

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  Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …”

  Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Leah UmanskyOct 10

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry

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  Two Poems by Rickey Laurentiis

  Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Rickey LaurentiisOct 9

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry

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  Nico Amador’s “Adams”

  Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Nico AmadorOct 8

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry

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  From aracelis girmay’s “The Dog”

  In a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien,” aracelis girmay encounters the self as a wild animal.

  aracelis girmayOct 7

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry