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Poetry

Frank Bidart's Mirror

The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Heather Treseler

Poetry

Scriptorium

On the poetry of Melissa Range.

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry

Curating Resurrection

Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.

Stephen Collis

Poetry

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Alan Gilbert

Poetry

How the Cinder Bears the Seed

Susan Stewart's new poetry collection questions the power and potential of her own art. 

William Waddell

Poetry

Exit Text: Rumors and Ghosts

The Book of Disquiet performs something like a literary vanishing point.

Geneviève Robichaud

Poetry

Poetry and Agency Under Trump

Poetry and activism share an uneasy relationship.

David Micah Greenberg

Poetry

National Poetry Month 2017

A poem a day, everyday, in honor of National Poetry Month.

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Poetry

The Monstrosity of Sor Juana

Two new translations resurrect Mexico’s most enigmatic and paradoxical Baroque poet.

Joyelle McSweeney

Poetry

Sun and Urn

On the electric poetry of Christopher Salerno.

Virginia Konchan

Poetry

Winter Poetry Reading

New poetry from Molly Bendall, Dana Levin, Simone White, Anna Moschovakis, and Elaine Equi.

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Poetry

On the Poetry of Institutional Violence

The anonymous collective BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP transmutes voices from the archive into lyric form.

Henk Rossouw

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