Poets

How to Read Caves

From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf

 
By Susan Harlan  January 9, 2018
Poets

How Fetishizing ‘Craft’ Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

By Michael Bazzett  December 19, 2017
Feature

5 Poems to Appease the Infamous Welsh Christmas Horse Skeleton

By Blair Beusman and Jess Bergman  December 19, 2017
Poets

Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez In Conversation

By Literary Hub  December 15, 2017
Did you know?

W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running

By Nick Ripatrazone  December 14, 2017
Poets

Don’t Die, I Say: 3 Poems on Gun Violence and Police Brutality

By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
Poets

Read Early Sonnets By Walter Benjamin, for the First Time in English

By Carl Skoggard  December 11, 2017
Poets

What’s a Poetry Reading Doing at a Tech Start-Up Anyway?

By Adriane Quinlan  December 8, 2017
Poets

8 Russian Poets Who Taught Me How to Write a Novel About Russia

By Janet Fitch  December 8, 2017
Poets

“Astrological Sign Poem”

By Dorothea Lasky  December 1, 2017
Events

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

By Kyle Lucia Wu  December 1, 2017
Criticism

Beyond “Lyric Shame”: Ben Lerner on Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson

By Ben Lerner  November 29, 2017
Conversations

Poet Jenny Johnson on Writing Her Own Escape Routes

By Peter Mishler  November 27, 2017
Feature

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

By Abel Debritto  November 17, 2017
Poets

A New Poem by Natalie Graham

By Natalie J. Graham  November 17, 2017
Poets

Lynn Melnick: “I Believe Words Possess a Magic Power to Make Change”

By Danielle Pafunda  November 16, 2017
Feature

Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter

By Chris Townsend  November 15, 2017
Poets

Two Poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 13, 2017
Deep Dive

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

By Martha Collins  November 13, 2017
Conversations

Jennifer Tseng and Idra Novey on Place, Language, and the Problem of Nostalgia

By Literary Hub  November 10, 2017
Archives

Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

By Emily Temple  November 9, 2017
Poets

Ocean Vuong: Interrogating the Canon While (Literally) Riding a Bicycle with No Hands

By Literary Hub  November 8, 2017
Poets

A New Poem by Randall Mann

By Randall Mann  November 8, 2017
Poets

The Body of Loneliness Was Embraced: Two Poems by Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen  November 7, 2017
Essay

How Lord Byron Invented the Wild Horse

By Susanna Forrest   November 3, 2017
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