Articles

Funny, convivial, chatty—a new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius. 

Tu Fu, the greatest poet of the Tang dynasty, was torn between two desires: serving the emperor and writing literature.

Perception shapes fear and desire in Gregory Pardlo’s Spectral Evidence.

Six decades of revolution with John Sinclair. 

On cubes, love, and fate.

For more than four decades, the French poet Liliane Giraudon has written experimental, sensual, and politically demanding work.

Jones Very's divine possession briefly captivated the Transcendentalists, but his idealism proved a trap.

Seamus Heaney’s letters present a mostly congenial poet with a dogged work ethic and a desire to not be anyone's spokesman.

Sleep collects the incandescent English-language poems of the multilingual Italian poet Amelia Rosselli.