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A Month in the Life

A new edition of Bernadette Mayer’s Memory helps us rediscover a poet whose experiments create a new relationship between poem and reader.

January 14, 2021 issue

The Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture 2020

January 14, 2021 issue

Learning to Grieve

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

November 19, 2020 issue

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

Waiting for the Perfect Word

September 26, 2019 issue

Adrienne Rich, New York City, 1973

‘Inventing New Ways to Be’

Adrienne Rich’s books reveal an astonishing power not only to capture the shifting spirit of the times but to anticipate the dilemmas of the future

November 8, 2018 issue

Horace; detail from Luca Signorelli’s fresco of the Last Judgment in the Cathedral of Orvieto, Italy, 1500–1503

Horace’s How-To

“Human” is the opening word of the ‘Ars Poetica.’ This is unlikely to be an accident.

June 11, 2020 issue

Richard Wright, Paris, 1957

Christopher Benfey

The Haiku of Confinement

Bedridden in his Odéon apartment, Richard Wright spent the last year and a half of his life writing haiku.

June 25, 2020

The Latest

Mouse in the Grocery

a poem

December 17, 2020 issue

Winter Journey

a poem

December 17, 2020 issue

‘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 Dream of Pure Expression

A new translation of Paul Valéry’s poems also includes rousing extracts from his extraordinary notebooks.

December 3, 2020 issue

Marianne Boruch

The Sirens

a poem

December 3, 2020 issue

Irina Dumitrescu

Dudes Without Heirs

Maria Headley translates ‘Beowulf,’ a story in which women make the world, and men make their legends by destroying it.

December 3, 2020 issue

Boston

a poem

November 19, 2020 issue

The Son

a poem

November 19, 2020 issue

Maureen N. McLane

Power

a poem

November 5, 2020 issue

Naples, Florida

a poem

November 5, 2020 issue

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