Poetry

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

Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds’s “Orlando”
Lindsay Turner considers “Orlando” by Sandra Simonds.
Lindsay TurnerDec 3, 2018
- Poetry
“The Poem Doesn’t Happen Until You Roam Away”: A Conversation with Eloise Klein Healy
The poet laureate of Los Angeles on relearning language.
Tara IsonNov 29, 2018
- Poetry
“The Great Chain of Being”: Alice Major’s “Welcome to the Anthropocene”
In “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” Alice Major sets up the natural world as dominant over our knowledge of it.
Hannah RogersNov 27, 2018
- Poetry
Life in the Present Tense: “Like” by A. E. Stallings
Rowland Bagnall considers “Like” by A. E. Stallings.
Rowland BagnallNov 25, 2018
- Poetry
“We Go On”: On the Poetry of Hugo Williams
Declan Ryan appreciates the “emotional endurance and arrested constancy” of Hugo Williams, whose first book of poems appeared in 1965.
Declan RyanNov 23, 2018
- Poetry
A Mutual Bewitchment
A literary friendship, scrupulously enshrined.
Greg GerkeNov 21, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
“Somebody Told Me My Body’s Not Mine to Hold”: An Interview with Erica Dawson
Jonathan Farmer interviews poet Erica Dawson about her new book, “When Rap Spoke Straight to God.”
Jonathan FarmerNov 2, 2018
- Poetry
Content in Plato’s Cave: Ersi Sotiropoulos’s “What’s Left of the Night”
In "What’s Left of the Night," Ersi Sotiropoulos excavates the origin of this irony in the early years of C. P. Cavafy’s poetic awakening.
Niko MaragosOct 26, 2018
Los Angeles, City of Poets
Los Angeles poets on the city they love.
Sesshu FosterOct 24, 2018
- Poetry
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Joan Murray and Christopher Gilbert
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a second look at second, posthumous books by poets Joan Murray and Christopher Gilbert.
Lisa Russ SpaarOct 18, 2018
- Poetry
A Polish Snow Globe: On Adam Mickiewicz’s “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania”
Josh Billings revels in Bill Johnston’s “meticulous” translation of “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” by the great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.
Josh BillingsOct 16, 2018
The Motion of the Pestle
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."
Liesl SchwabeOct 11, 2018