The Enigma of John Donne

Racy, profane, and spiritual, the Metaphysical poet has remained a mystery to generations of readers. 

Zachary Fine

Windbreak

John Freeman

SIEGE

Rasaq Malik

The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo

Her two poetry collections are rich with images of homeland, movement, history, and the future.

Yasmine Seale

A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador

Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist grapples with the the security ideology that shapes the Americas through poems that explore activism and resistance.

Danielle Mackey

Elegy for a Poet Who Loved Sneakers

P. Scott Cunningham

Jana Prikryl’s Poetry of Perpetual Motion

In her new collection, Midwood, she travels through the borders of space, time, life, and death.

Rhian Sasseen

Salman Rushdie Joins Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence

Shortly before he was attacked, Rushdie joined with dozens of Indian literary artists to lament the rise of Hindu nationalism and the fragile state of the country’s democracy.

Pranay Somayajula

Encounters With Adélia Prado

Five new translations of the Brazilian poet’s work by Ellen Doré Watson. 

Adélia Prado and Ellen Doré Watson

The Literary Games of Fernando Pessoa

Did Pessoa truly control his alter egos? Or did his creations, in many ways, control him?

Ilan Stavans