Poets

The Poet-Publisher Who Scorned Death by Pursuing It

Ben Mazer on the Wild and Profligate Life of Harry Crosby

 
By Ben Mazer  June 10, 2020
Poets

Defiant and Unsinkable:
The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By Olivia Gatwood  May 19, 2020
Poets

On the City of Florence’s Struggle to Get Back Dante’s Body

By Guy P. Raffa  May 18, 2020
Poets

Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight  March 31, 2020
Poets

A Conversation with Poet David Ferry on the Occasion of His 96th Birthday

By Peter Mishler  March 5, 2020
Poets

Dorothea Lasky and Julia Guez: On Queenliness, Metaphysics, and Book Tour

By Literary Hub  February 28, 2020
Poets

“At The Shore”

By Frank Bidart  February 26, 2020
Poets

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

By Emily Van Duyne  February 24, 2020
Poets

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
Poets

Danez Smith: ‘Being a Poet Means Committing to Vulnerability’

By Sheila Regan  February 21, 2020
Poets

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
Poets

Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

By Peter Mishler  December 18, 2019
Poets

Ben Lerner Talks to Ocean Vuong About Love, Whiteness, and Toxic Masculinity

By Ocean Vuong  October 15, 2019
Poets

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
Poets

Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
of Heart and Humor

By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
Poets

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
Poets

Jim Harrison’s Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

By Dean Kuipers  May 28, 2019
Poets

Bruce Smith on Poetry in Prison and the Poetic Task of Demystification

By Peter Mishler  May 15, 2019
Criticism

Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds

By Javier Zamora  April 12, 2019
Poets

‘First Map’
A Poem by KC Trommer

By KC Trommer  April 12, 2019
Poets

‘We Used to Call it Puerto Rico Rain,’
A Poem by Willie Perdomo

By Willie Perdomo  April 2, 2019
Poets

‘The Book of Petitions,’ A Poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

By Vénus Khoury-Ghata  March 29, 2019
Essay

Maybe Becoming a Poet Just for the Praise Was Not a Good Move

By Jessie Gaynor  March 27, 2019
Poets

‘The Proof’ A Poem by Toi Derricotte

By Toi Derricotte  March 27, 2019
Poets

On Being Black in Appalachia: A Response to J.D. Vance

By Keith S. Wilson  March 26, 2019
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