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Memoir Nation
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“Let Me Tell You What I Love.” Remembering Fanny Howe
On One of America’s Great Poets, Gone at 84
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| July 10, 2025
The Most Literary Pope:
Requiescat in Pace, Francis
“Literature engages our concrete existence, with its innate tensions, desires and meaningful experiences...”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| April 22, 2025
On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s
Holocaust
, 50 Years Later
“The scenes of Holocaust unfold in Eastern Europe, but Reznikoff seems to suggest they could happen anywhere...”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| April 18, 2025
A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer
Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| April 4, 2025
The Time a Couple Crazy Kids—Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway—Started a Journal in Paris
And It Was Almost Called “The Paris Review”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| February 7, 2025
“It Will Be One of the Most Ghastly Short Stories Ever Written.” When Dylan Thomas Tried to Get Spooky
Nick Ripatrazone on the Great Poets Early Foray Into Darkness
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 31, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| July 29, 2024
Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| November 29, 2023
On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 31, 2023
On the Generative Nostalgia of Old Manuscripts
Nick Ripatrazone Lets Go of an Old Story
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| September 13, 2023
Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?
Nick Ripatrazone on the Poetic Aspirations of American Presidents
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| May 10, 2023
Revelations of Language: On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence
Nick Ripatrazone Looks at Journals Dedicated to the Prose Poem
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| March 2, 2023
Mysteries Contained Therein: In Praise of the Literary Journal Longform Interview
Nick Ripatrazone Goes Into the Journal Archives for Gass, Murdoch, Elkin, and More
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| February 3, 2023
Big Names in Little Magazines: On Thomas Pynchon’s Very First Literary Journal Appearance
Nick Ripatrazone Goes Deep into the Literary Journal Archives
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| December 21, 2022
Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space
Nick Ripatrazone Looks Back at
The American Poetry Review
,
Pleiades
, and
The Hudson Review
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| November 29, 2022
“Eclectic, Refreshingly Wild, and Important.” Exploring the Archives of America’s Best Literary Journals
Introducing a New Column in Which Nick Ripatrazone Reveals Treasures From the Back Issue Vault
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 19, 2022
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