Articles

For James Baldwin on his 100th birthday.

An introduction to the Poetry Foundation’s latest exhibition.

From the beginning of his career, Bill Knott presented himself as an outsider, an underdog, and a combative "minor poet." 

Wolfgang Hilbig wrote poems of gothic lyricism while laboring in Germany's bleak industrial landscapes.

The links between queer memory, activism, and transpoetics in Julian Carter’s Dances of Time and Tenderness.  

In Two Minds, Callie Siskel reflects on the ghost of her famous father.

Delmore Schwartz is often touted as an exemplary literary tragedy. A long-overdue Collected Poems showcases his extravagant genius—and his failures.

On reading Tomaž Šalamun.

In The Invention of the Darling, Li-Young Lee presents divinity as spirit and matter, profound and quotidian, sacred and profane.