Ange Mlinko

Potatoes and Pomegranates

April 21, 2022 issue

His Nemesis Was Stupidity

Baudelaire thought the scope of his influence would be limited by the perfection of his poetry, which sailed over the heads of the masses.

Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed

by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French and edited by Richard Sieburth

The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by Aaron Poochigian, with an introduction by Dana Gioia and an afterword by Daniel Handler

The Salon of 1846

by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by Jonathan Mayne, with an introduction by Michael Fried

April 7, 2022 issue

Letter

Aaron Poochigian

To The Reader

May 12, 2022 issue

Bard of New Jersey

There’s tremendous showmanship in August Kleinzahler’s language, the power to leap from dainty diction to grotesque vocabulary within the space of a single line.

Snow Approaching on the Hudson

by August Kleinzahler

December 2, 2021 issue

Ashbery’s Cliffhangers

John Ashbery’s first posthumous collection is a reminder that collage and other formal experiments have always been central to his work.

Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works

by John Ashbery, edited by Emily Skillings and with a foreword by Ben Lerner

September 23, 2021 issue

‘And You Give Yourself Away’

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s obsession with the eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chronaill amounts to a search for second sight, a vision to deepen the reality of her own life.

A Ghost in the Throat

by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

May 13, 2021 issue

‘The Splendour and the Sting’

The passionate voices and formal experiments of two poets who should no longer be neglected.

Charlotte Mew: Selected Poetry and Prose

edited and with an introduction by Julia Copus

So I Looked Down to Camelot

by Rosamund Stanhope

December 17, 2020 issue

Exile in Florida

November 19, 2020 issue

Naples, Florida

a poem

November 5, 2020 issue

Alice Oswald at her house, South Devon, England, 2016

Water Music

Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea

by Alice Oswald

Falling Awake

by Alice Oswald

Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad

by Alice Oswald, with an afterword by Eavan Boland

Weeds and Wild Flowers

by Alice Oswald, with etchings by Jessica Greenman

Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems

by Alice Oswald

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July 23, 2020 issue

‘A Walk Through Someone Else’

Feel Free

by Nick Laird

O Positive

by Joe Dunthorne

March 26, 2020 issue

Acts of Extreme Attention

Karen Solie, the consummate poet of the Trans-Canadian Highway, has taken an evolutionary leap with her recent poetry, trading comedy for sublime beauty.

The Caiplie Caves

by Karen Solie

November 21, 2019 issue

Lawrence Ferlinghetti; illustration by Joanna Neborsky

‘Resist and Disobey!’

Little Boy

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems

edited by Nancy J. Peters

Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2010

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson

September 26, 2019 issue

John Koethe; illustration by Joanna Neborsky

A View Beyond the Personal

Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016

by John Koethe

May 23, 2019 issue

Holding It Together

Hey, Marfa

by Jeffrey Yang, with paintings and drawings by Rackstraw Downes

Baby, I Don’t Care

by Chelsey Minnis

January 17, 2019 issue

A Midsummer Night’s Work

a poem

August 16, 2018 issue

W.S. Merwin in the palm forest at the Merwin Conservancy, Haiku, Hawaii, 2011

Whole Earth Troubadour

The poems of W.S. Merwin

The Essential W.S. Merwin

edited by Michael Wiegers

Garden Time

by W.S. Merwin

The Moon Before Morning

by W.S. Merwin

December 7, 2017 issue