Poetry

‘The Roots of Our Madness’

John Berryman was central to American poetry’s personal turn, yet his Dream Songs made the racialization of that turn—and the whiteness of the lyric tradition—explicit.

April 8, 2021 issue

Ben Lerner

Past Imperfect

Erica Hunt’s Jump the Clock is eerily appropriate for a time when a pandemic has suspended the normal temporal rhythms for so many of us, while laying bare our mortally uneven relationship to those rhythms.

February 25, 2021 issue

Evan Kindley

To Err Is Poetic

The poetry canon is dotted with mistakes large and small; why do some critics seem attached to reading these errors as intentional?

February 11, 2021 issue

Jed Perl

Cubism’s Poet

Writer, painter, and a close friend of Picasso, Max Jacob was part of the glory of interwar bohemian Paris.

February 25, 2021 issue

Louise Glück

The Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture 2020

January 14, 2021 issue

Clair Wills

Learning to Grieve

A poet and a psychologist consider the necessity of mourning our dead.

November 19, 2020 issue

Landscape painting, Tang dynasty era (618–907)

Madeleine Thien

Poems Without an ‘I’

In Chinese poetry, fiction, and philosophy, the “I” is not the nerve center from which thought and knowledge begin.

October 8, 2020 issue

Ange Mlinko

‘The Splendour and the Sting’

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

December 17, 2020 issue

The Latest

Mary Jo Bang

The Problem of the Present

a poem

April 29, 2021 issue

Paul Muldoon

Coywolves

a poem

April 29, 2021 issue

Sophie Pinkham

No More Mother-Saviors

Recent collections of poetry by Russian women offer a glimpse of how perceptions of feminism are changing in post-communist Slavic countries.

April 29, 2021 issue

Sandra Lim

Pastoral

a poem

April 8, 2021 issue

Forrest Gander

Aubade II

a poem

April 8, 2021 issue

Boris Dralyuk

Uncredited

a poem

March 25, 2021 issue

Tishani Doshi

Advice for Pliny the Elder, Big Daddy of Mansplainers

a poem

March 25, 2021 issue

Maureen N. McLane

Winter

a poem

March 25, 2021 issue

Katie Peterson

Fog

a poem

March 11, 2021 issue

Katie Peterson

Fog

a poem

March 11, 2021 issue

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