A Wilderness I Wouldn’t Live Without: On Carl Phillips’s “Wild Is the Wind”
Rachel Richardson reviews “Wild Is the Wind” by Carl Phillips....
One Mask at a Time: An Interview with Stephen Dunn
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reflects on sincerity, mortality, the buffoonery of Trump, and dogs as comic relief....
History Lessons: Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate”
Christopher Spaide considers Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate.”...
The Walls Speak: Excavating the Chinese Immigration Experience at Angel Island
Teow Lim Goh uncovers the ongoing effort by scholars and poets to preserve the Chinese immigrant experience at Angel Island through its lost poetry....
Nikki Giovanni: In Her Revolutionary Dream
Patrick A. Howell interviews poet Nikki Giovanni....
Poet to Poet Practice: A Conversation with Erica Jong
Kim Dower in conversation with Erica Jong....
Homage, Not Larceny: On Nicholas Friedman’s “Petty Theft”
A. M. Juster appreciates the retro-transgressive poetics of “Petty Theft,” by Nicholas Friedman....
Eclipse Expeditions
On "After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet" and the fraught history of Emily Dickinson's editors....
“Shimmering Bits of Thought”: Gail Wronsky’s “Imperfect Pastorals”
Karen Kevorkian considers “Imperfect Pastorals” by Gail Wronsky....
Clever Ghosts: James Merrill’s “The Book of Ephraim”
Richie Hofmann considers “The Book of Ephraim” by James Merrill, annotated and with a new introduction by Stephen Yenser....
The Talking Walls of Angel Island
Joy Lanzendorfer considers the poetry and history of Angel Island....
Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds’s “Orlando”
Lindsay Turner considers “Orlando” by Sandra Simonds....
