Poetry

Pablo Neruda in New York in 1966

The Possible Murder of Pablo Neruda 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.

Feb 23, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

The Forgotten Poets of the Attica Uprising

The Forgotten Poets of the Attica Uprising 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.

Feb 15, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Howard Rosier

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity 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.

Jan 19, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby

Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal

Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal 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.” 

Jan 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl

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Letters From the January 9/16, 2023, Issue Letters From the January 9/16, 2023, Issue

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

Dec 27, 2022 / Letters / Our Readers

An Unpublished Poem by Paul Newman

An Unpublished Poem by Paul Newman An Unpublished Poem by Paul Newman

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

Dec 21, 2022 / Back Page / Paul Newman

A New Kind of Trans Poetics

A New Kind of Trans Poetics 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.

Dec 6, 2022 / Books & the Arts / McKenzie Wark

Nation Poetry

A Suit or a Suitcase A Suit or a Suitcase

  You ask what I’ll miss about this life. Everything but cruelty, I think. But you want one specific thing, so here—I’ll miss my body. I’ll miss its companionship, how it’s tr…

Nov 23, 2022 / no-paywall / Maggie Smith

Nation Poetry

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

  Moonship comes when I’m on the road, A/C on, music on, the inside still in, then—zam—wind, unshielded crescents of moon, the body gone, tearing through space at 60 miles per…

Nov 17, 2022 / no-paywall / Nomi Stone

Nation Poetry

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

  I lost my nerve for spirits when I was sixteen. Spent that whole spring playing chicken and betraying my grandparents’ liquor cabinets for homies who were too cool to say th…

Nov 10, 2022 / no-paywall / Tayi Tibble

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