Poetry for Sinking Places and Sinking People Poetry for Sinking Places and Sinking People
Ange Mlinko’s Venice is a collection of poems about cities, ruin, and humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.
Nov 22, 2023 / Rhian Sasseen
The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You
Nov 20, 2023 / no-paywall / Christina Olson
Iman Mersal’s Lost Cairo Iman Mersal’s Lost Cairo
In Threshold, the poet revisits a city that transformed her and a generation of radical artists and intellectuals.
Oct 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Amir-Hussein Radjy
Hunt Murderers, Not Poets Hunt Murderers, Not Poets
In support of arrested Russian poet Evgenia Berkovich.
May 10, 2023 / The Nation and Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Gift of Slam Poetry The Gift of Slam Poetry
A short history of a misunderstood literary genre and the world it created.
Apr 26, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Bennett
Is the American Dream a Long Con? Is the American Dream a Long Con?
A conversation with Alissa Quart about her new book Bootstrapped, an examination of how the ideology of individualism helped create the conditions for inequality.
Apr 5, 2023 / Editorial / Rhoda Feng