Poetry

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

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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

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  Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”

  Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Timothy DonnellyOct 6

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry

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  Jeremy Ra’s “Janis Carter Lives in Gambia for Years to Rehabilitate Lucy the Chimp Back into the Wild”

  Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

  Jeremy RaOct 5

  • LARB Lit

  • Poetry

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  The Deep Engine of Witness

  Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”

  Ryan McIlvainOct 4

  • Poetry

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  Days of Wayward Gifts

  Dan Beachy-Quick soaks in Joe Deany-Braun’s “Young Santa,” Sayumi Kamakura’s “Applause for a Cloud,” and James Shea’s “Last Day of My Face.”

  Dan Beachy-QuickOct 1

  • Poetry

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  The Lucent Light of Lethal Pain

  Katie Berta examines the properties of grief in Prageeta Sharma’s new poetry collection “Onement Won.”

  Katie BertaSep 18

  • Poetry