Poets

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

Heather Swan on the Many Roles of a Poet, and Friend

 
By Heather Swan  November 7, 2024
Poets

How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
In Conversation

Stacy Szymaszek on the Liberatory Possibilities of Outsider Poetry

By Sallie Fullerton  July 26, 2023
Poets

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

By Patrick Gale  July 18, 2023
Poets

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

By Joy Harjo  April 10, 2023
Poets

​​José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

By Literary Hub  March 6, 2023
Poets

Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

By Willard Spiegelman  February 28, 2023
Poets

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

By Matthew Hollis  January 9, 2023
Poets

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
Poets

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

By Jen DeGregorio  June 6, 2022
Poets

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

By Joe Moshenska  December 8, 2021
Poets

Ross Gay Demands Our Attention (in a Pandemic or Otherwise)

By Sara B. Franklin  October 21, 2021
Criticism

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
Poets

The Uncertain Literary Afterlife of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Fiona Sampson  August 16, 2021
Poets

On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

By Cedar Sigo  July 22, 2021
Poets

On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

By Natasha Trethewey  June 3, 2021
Poets

Contemplating the Devotions of W.S. Merwin in the Wilds of North Jersey

By Nick Ripatrazone  May 20, 2021
Poets

In Praise of a Brazen Poet: On the Essays of Kay Ryan, Outsider

By Jason Guriel  April 28, 2021
Poets

“Via Negativa”

By Sydney Lea  April 27, 2021
Poets

“The Professor”

By Shane McCrae  April 19, 2021
Poets

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
Poets

“Night in the Castle”

By Kim Addonizio  April 2, 2021
Poets

The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
Poets

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

By Douglas Crase  October 28, 2020
Poets

Exclusive cover reveal: Kaveh Akbar’s new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell.

By Aaron Robertson  September 29, 2020
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