Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.

By Emily Van Duyne | January 24, 2019

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

Poetry as Affirmation of Queer Desire

By Jeanna Kadlec | January 23, 2019

Holy Lands

Holy Lands

Amanda Sthers

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 23, 2019

Talent

Talent

Juliet Lapidos

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 22, 2019

How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

Brandon Taylor on the Gift That is "Wild Geese"

By Brandon Taylor | January 18, 2019

The Orphan of Salt Winds

The Orphan of Salt Winds

Elizabeth Brooks

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 18, 2019

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Still In Love

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 17, 2019

'Meeting you in the first place was great though' A Poem by Rachael Allen

By Rachael Allen | January 17, 2019

Reading Across America: Have Your Poetry and Eat It, Too

By Laura Winnick | January 16, 2019

Adèle

Adèle

Leīla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 16, 2019

New Poetry by DaMaris Hill

New Poetry by DaMaris Hill

From Her Collection A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing

By DaMaris Hill | January 16, 2019

"Hear Our Defeats"

Laurent Gaudé, trans. Alison Anderson

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 15, 2019

'Ideas of Heaven' A Poem by Dorianne Laux

'Ideas of Heaven' A Poem by Dorianne Laux

From Her Collection Only As the Day Is Long

By Dorianne Laux | January 15, 2019

Read an Extract from <em>Three Poems</em> by Hannah Sullivan, Winner of This Year's T. S. Eliot Prize

Read an Extract from Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, Winner of This Year's T. S. Eliot Prize

"You have been thinking of the building opposite at night, the lights / Going off one by one, a diminished Mondrian"

By Hannah Sullivan | January 14, 2019

Something Like Breathing

Something Like Breathing

Angela Readman

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Cedar Sigo on Playfulness and Poetry

Cedar Sigo on Playfulness and Poetry

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | January 11, 2019

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