Ange Mlinko

Ange Mlinko, the recipient of the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation, lives in Beirut. Her most recent book of poems is Starred Wire.

Currently

  • Linguistic Currency

    November 3, 2009

    In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.

  • To Sleep, Perchance to 'Sleep and Think'

    September 1, 2009

    Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.

  • With Mercy for the Greedy

    June 29, 2009

    Why do Frederick Seidel's champions consistently transform his weaknesses into virtues?

  • Lingo: Fopcorn

    June 16, 2009

    Is the history of English really the history of adult learners of a second language?

  • Comfort and Agony

    May 20, 2009

    Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."

  • Lingo: And Then Some

    April 14, 2009

    Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception?

  • A Nameless Vocation

    March 18, 2009 Subscribe

    In The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe proves to be a reluctant and rebellious memoirist.

  • Lingo: What Child Is This?

    March 17, 2009

    This is Lingo, a new occasional column about language. Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?

2008

  • Her Nature Was Future

    November 19, 2008

    The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.

  • Lullaby

    October 29, 2008

    In language stark and plain as hymns, Susan Stewart explores our insatiable desire to find meaning in remembrance.

  • Letters

    April 23, 2008 Subscribe

  • Loss Lieder

    April 8, 2008

    It's National Poetry Month, and that means cooked meat.

  • A Nurse of Enchantment

    March 27, 2008

    Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.

2007

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