The Possible Murder of Pablo Neruda

Questions have surrounded the legendary Chilean poet’s death for years, and a new inquiry suggests that he might have been poisoned.

Peter Kornbluh

The Forgotten Poets of the Attica Uprising

When the Smoke Clears documents poetry workshops held in the aftermath of the prison’s occupation. The work produced by the inmates was visceral and heartrending.

J. Howard Rosier

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

In a career spanning collection This Afterlife, the poet opens up a dialogue about the history of form and the rich possibilities of the practice’s oldest modes of expression.

Ryan Ruby

Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.” 

Aditya Bahl

Letters From the January 9/16, 2023, Issue

Here we go again… Unintended consequences… An American daughter… Dangerous policies…

Our Readers

An Unpublished Poem by Paul Newman

Previously uncovered words from the eminent late actor, director, and philanthropist.

Paul Newman

A New Kind of Trans Poetics

In A Queen in Bucks County, Kay Gabriel finds a connection between trans femininity and modernism as she documents one person’s winding journey from suburb to city.

McKenzie Wark

A Suit or a Suitcase

Maggie Smith

The Average Driver Will Be in a Car Accident Once Every Eighteen Years

Nomi Stone

Kehua / I used to want to be the bait that caught Te Ika

Tayi Tibble