Articles

In Joshua Bennett’s history of spoken word, poetry is alive and well thanks to a movement that began in living rooms and bars.

Monica Youn’s From From troubles the notion of a fixed identity.

Amy Clampitt's poetry career began late, but as a new biography attests, she was always a writer of deep ambition and erotic intensity. 

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, a new collection by Homero Aridjis, is a phantasmagoria of Mexico’s ghosts, myths, and brutal landscapes.  

Maggie Millner’s Couplets is a story of love, sex, and betrayal in Bed-Stuy.

Rachel Zucker considers literary wrongness—from John Keats to confessional poetry—in a book that has the energy of a manifesto.  

Transness and elegy intertwine in K. Iver’s debut collection.  

A new collection of autobiographical pieces documents the vast scope of Anne Waldman's literary and political imagination. 

Journeying into the underworld with A.E. Stallings.

A reading list of our 2022 features.