Back Talk: Honor Moore
Christine Smallwood : Back Talk
Poet Honor Moore talks about her family's response to her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter.
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Personal Histories
Benjamin Paloff
New collections by Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig suggest that postwar Polish verse can't be reduced to "poetry of witness."
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A Nurse of Enchantment
Ange Mlinko
Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.
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One Sun Roaring
Jordan Davis
The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.
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Un Lio Bestial
Forrest Gander
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
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A Test of Poetry
James Longenbach
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
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A Human Pledge
Susan Stewart
The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.
2007
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The Madman and the Poet
In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
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A Kind of Waiting Always
A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.
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Dreamlife Without Angels
John Ashbery has given us the ideal poetry for the Information Age.
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Playtime
The Surrealist dissident Raymond Queneau turned his writings into a lab for his experiments, and the results are still exhilarating.
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The Imperfectionist
Reconsidering the life and legacy of avant-garde artist and poet Francis Picabia.
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Revolutionary Devotion
Roberto González Echevarría : Peru
Communism, Catholicism and radical Modernism meet on the dissecting table of César Vallejo's poetry.
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Bolaño in Mexico
As a young writer in the 1970s, Roberto Bolaño was expected to choose between two rival factions of Mexican poets. He chose both.
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The Strains of Inspiration
Jonathan Rée : Public Figures & Intellectuals
The Friendship describes how Wordsworth and Coleridge's fiercely uneven relationship affected their lives and work.
2006
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A View From the Bridge
Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.
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2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman
Tony Hoagland : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
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The Last Antiwar Poem
Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," written at the height of the Vietnam War, speaks with a jarring relevance today.
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Poetry, From Noun to Verb
Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense of dislocation.
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The Passion of Anna
In Elaine Feinstein's new biography, the complicated life of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is flattened into a fable of suffering and redemption.
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The Poet and the Muse
Mark M. Anderson : Public Figures & Intellectuals
A new collection of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome reveals an intimate portrait of a poet and his muse.
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The Master of Modernismo
Roberto González Echevarría : Nicaragua
Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, all but unknown in English-speaking countries, had a global impact on literature, ushering Spanish poetry into the modern era.
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La Vie de Bohème
John Palattella : New York City
Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.
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Dr. Fun
Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence, and displayed his infectious awe of the universe in enchanting verse.
2005
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2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital, winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, is a reflective, documentary and visionary volume of poetry inspired by the city of New York.
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Don't Criticize Me
Calvin Trillin : US Politics & Government
Karl Rove and his Singing Slimemeisters riff You Go To My Head.
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Scooter Libby: A Republican Nursery Rhyme
Catching small fry, letting the big fish go.
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Another Miracle From Bill Frist
Calvin Trillin : Conservatives & The American Right
The doctor who proved himself a master of distant diagosis has one more trick up his sleeve.
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Deadline for Saddam
Saddam Hussein went to trial on Wednesday declaring he was still the president of Iraq. A decade-old series of odes to Hussein's dictatorial days show the tyrant was always out of touch with reality.
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One Possible Scenario
Calvin Trillin : Supreme Court
One twisted tale of how Harriet Miers's confirmation hearings will unfold.
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Readers Respond to Sharon Olds
Readers respond to poet Sharon Olds's decision to decline Laura Bush's invitation to dine at the White House.
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To Return and Rise Again
Brenda Marie Osbey : Louisiana
Louisiana's poet laureate writes of the resolve of New Orleans's displaced citizens to rebuild their shattered city.
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A Robertson Republican
Bush's paean to his staunchest ally's murderous impulses, with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Prosaic Judgments
John Palattella : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.
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Patrimony
John Palattella : African-Americans
Kevin Young updates the Harlem Renaissance for the hip-hop generation.
2004
2003
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Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush
So much for democracy, free speech and vigorous discussion.
2002
2000
This Week: Katrina vanden Heuvel on the meaning of patriotism this July 4th. Plus, some of our most compelling interviews from the first half of 2008: Victor Navasky on the experts getting it wrong about Iraq; Stuart Klawans on Romanian film; and Arthur Danto on the state of contemporary art. (13mb mp3)
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