Five Writers on the Poems That Make Them Cry

Five Writers on the Poems That Make Them Cry

Siri Hustvedt, Helen Macdonald, A.L. Kennedy, Margaret Drabble, and Kate Atkinson

By Literary Hub | April 5, 2016

On Prescribing Poems for the Sick, the Dying, the Grief Stricken

On Prescribing Poems for the Sick, the Dying, the Grief Stricken

Ronna Bloom Explores the Power of Poetry in a Hospital Waiting Room

By Ronna Bloom | April 5, 2016

On Maggie Nelson's <em>The Red Parts</em>, Ten Years Later

On Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

How the book paved the way for the The Argonauts

By Bridget Read | April 5, 2016

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Kate Atkinson on "Adelstrop"

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Helen Macdonald on "Frost at Midnight"

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Margaret Drabble on "Say not the struggle naught availeth"

By Margaret Drabble | April 5, 2016

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