All Aboard All Aboard
Tumbled down an incline at Bash Bish Broke many things; it was still spring
Sep 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bernadette Mayer
Back Talk: Honor Moore Back Talk: Honor Moore
Poet Honor Moore talks about her family's response to her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter.
Jun 11, 2008 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood
Personal Histories Personal Histories
New collections by Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig suggest that postwar Polish verse can't be reduced to "poetry of witness."
Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
Loss Lieder Loss Lieder
It's National Poetry Month, and that means cooked meat.
Apr 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Israel Is Israel Is
Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
A Nurse of Enchantment A Nurse of Enchantment
Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
One Sun Roaring One Sun Roaring
The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
A Test of Poetry A Test of Poetry
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
A Human Pledge A Human Pledge
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.
Jan 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart