A Lifetime in Poetry: Marvin Bell on Iowa and the “Dead Man” Poems
Marvin Bell, interviewed by Loren Glass, talks about the “Dead Man” poems and his career in Iowa....
The Silence That Remains: On Translating the Poems of Ghassan Zaqtan
Fady Joudah reflects on his translations of the Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan....
An Interview with jayy dodd
Claire Schwartz talks to poet jayy dodd about their new collection, “Mannish Tongues.”...
Will You Join Me in Taking Up the Body?: On Sara Uribe’s “Antígona González”
Lara Schoorl finds inspiration in “Antígona González” by Sara Uribe....
Disincarnation of the World: On Octavio Paz’s “The Monkey Grammarian”
Ilan Stavans introduces a new edition of Nobel Prize–winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s “The Monkey Grammarian” (1974)....
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Olga Broumas and Emilia Phillips
Lisa Russ Spaar is moved by of Olga Broumas’s and Emilia Phillips’s second collections....
Arohanui: Shaun Miller Interviews James Galvin
James Galvin on his latest collection, the end of life, and the end of man....
Mad Russia Hurt Me into Poetry: An Interview with Maria Stepanova
Cynthia Haven talks to Russian poet, journalist, and political activist Maria Stepanova....
A Sudden Taking-in-of-Air: An Interview with Poet and Translator Robin Myers
Daniel Saldaña París interview poet Robin Myers about her bilingual volume “Conflations,” translation, and literary communities in Mexico and the U.S....
The Shipwreck of History: Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer”
Roy Scranton reviews Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer.”...
Blurring the Boundaries: The Poetry of Michel Houellebecq
Russell Williams reviews Michel Houellebecq’s poetry collection “Unreconciled.”...
Just Grace
“A Grace Paley Reader” contains a sampling of the wisdom that one woman gleaned from not taking the easy way out....
