Articles

Harry Fainlight was a Beat visionary overshadowed by his famous friends and sidelined by mental illness. His legacy is ripe for reassessment. 

C.P. Cavafy was not a poet of his time but the bard of a lost age—or an age still to come.

Mark Hyatt—barely published and dead at 32—was a lost figure of queer British poetry. Two posthumous books revive his startling voice.

A newly reissued memoir by Emily Dickinson’s niece tries to decode the poet’s enduring mystery. 

Sex meets death in Deborah Landau’s Skeletons.

An introduction to Kim Hyesoon.

On Kim Hyesoon's unruly poetics.

A letter for Kim Hyesoon.

On crossing into the zone of literature.

How to create a mother tongue.