Poetry

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

After Translation
Michael Leong examines Ignacio Infante's "After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic."
Michael LeongFeb 5, 2015
“… With the remote shine of dead planets”: A New Year’s Meeting in Los Angeles
On Christopher Isherwood and Henri Coulette.
Boris DralyukJan 29, 2015
- Poetry
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Galway Kinnell and David Roderick
On Galway Kinnell's "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock" and David Roderick's "The Americans"
Lisa Russ SpaarJan 28, 2015
- Poetry
A Conversation Between Friends
"You know, I’ve always wondered if you like Beyoncé …"
Michael RobbinsJan 27, 2015
Laura Quinney on Merwin
Merwin has been experimenting for over 50 years to perfect his kind of lyric.
Laura QuinneyJan 24, 2015
- Poetry
Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo”
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Nina MartyrisJan 21, 2015
- Poetry
- Politics
Susan Howe’s Telepathy
Howe introduces us to the poet’s sense of the library and manuscript archive as untouched wilderness.
Jonathan CreasyJan 20, 2015
- Poetry
Forgive My Father, For He Has Sinned
On the poetic struggle of two familial, and familiar, figures of speech
Ava KofmanJan 11, 2015
Languages of Myth and Art and Religion
Louise Glück’s most ambitious book of poems yet.
Adam PlunkettJan 1, 2015
- Poetry
Roundtable on “Citizen: An American Lyric,” Part II
Carmen Giménez Smith invited Mark Nowak, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Nick Flynn to have a conversation about Claudia Rankine's book "Citizen: An American Lyric."
Carmen Giménez Smith, Mark Nowak, Nick Flynn, Ruth Ellen KocherDec 15, 2014
- Poetry
Roundtable on “Citizen: An American Lyric,” Part I
Carmen Giménez Smith invited Mark Nowak, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Nick Flynn to have a conversation about Claudia Rankine's book “Citizen: An American Lyric.”
Carmen Giménez Smith, Mark Nowak, Nick Flynn, Ruth Ellen KocherDec 14, 2014
- Poetry
The Convergence of Personal, Political, and Spiritual Poetry
On Afaa Michael Weaver’s Plum Flower Trilogy
Nadia ColburnDec 9, 2014
- Poetry