Recognizably Human: Larkin and the Sentimental
/Nobody would accuse the mature Larkin of being a greeting card poet, and yet a warm and even vulnerable sentimentality bubbles up in his verse, often when it's least expected.
Read MoreFor Singular Consideration
/A conversation with Maureen Thorson, Open Letters' new poetry editor, founder of NaPoWriMo, and publisher of Big Game Books
Read More“The Desire for Motion”: Tagore’s Three Voices
/Prince of the Bengali renaissance, internationally feted poet, composer, painter, educator -- why don't we know Rabindranath Tagore today? And will a new book open our eyes?
Read MoreOz Discovered without Ns or Ls
/a poem
Read MoreThe Restful “I”: Rumi, Psychology, and the Discovery of Love
/The 12th-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have re-created himself as an avatar of love. Chase Nordengren explores the stations on the life cycle that lead to such a radical rebirth.
Read MoreDisembodied Embodiment
/The late Akilah Oliver's poetry uses language to escape the trap of consciousness--verse "as rapture, as rupture" alike
Read MoreEndearment
/a poem
Read MoreRime Redux
/A new graphic novel reworks Coleridge's classic confrontation between man and nature for our times, taking us on a grand tour of environmental degradation.
Read More“Signs of the Real”
/Between the abstract and the solid, between Michigan and New York City, in and out of love, Gina Myers brings betweeness to the fore in her first collection of poems
Read More: cleave :
/a poem
Read MoreChangeable Camelion
/Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
Read MoreFrom: Environment Canada
/A poem.
Read MoreAll the Questions
/In her new collection of poems, Claire Becker probes the matter between what we intuit and what we learn, between what we choose and how we change.
Read MoreWHEN IN JAMAICA
/A poem by Andrea Henchey
Read MoreThe Zither and the Worm
/French trailblazer Raymond Roussel created teeming and fertile worlds from a secret process of wordplay. Two of his most spectacular works are coming back into print after a long, undeserved absence.
Read MoreThe Summery Night Before the Frost
/Best known today as the muse and lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon was a formidable poet and personality in his own right, and one well worth rereading.
Read MoreWhat’s the Big Idea?
/FSG gave fifty poets almost no time at all to write a nation-and-epoch-spanning poem based on ancient Japanese techniques. What could possibly go wrong? Or, more interestingly, what went right?
Read Morewhen there is more than one there is language
/we travel too quickly through these houses and hourswe travel thickly like rich black beetles tottering on the edges of tables
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