Poetry

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

Gillian White

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

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

David Shulman

Waiting for the Perfect Word

September 26, 2019 issue

The Latest

Katie Peterson

Fog

a poem

March 11, 2021 issue

Katie Peterson

Fog

a poem

March 11, 2021 issue

Paul Franz

Rathlin Island

a poem

February 25, 2021 issue

Laura Kolbe

Intensive Care

a poem

February 25, 2021 issue

Alex Dimitrov

Rain

a poem

February 11, 2021 issue

Ishion Hutchinson

Overwinter

a poem

January 14, 2021 issue

Lynn Emanuel

Hello

a poem

January 14, 2021 issue

Louise Glück

Winter Journey

a poem

December 17, 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

Henri Cole

Mouse in the Grocery

a poem

December 17, 2020 issue

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