Articles

What made Rilke great?

Super-Infinite, a new biography of John Donne, presents the poet in all of his piety and lust.   

Jana Prikryl's Midwood is a strange and ecstatic portrait of middle age.

The poetry of Cecilia Vicuña's soft sculptures.  

For Renee Gladman, drawing and writing function as two sides of the same verbal art. 

Lisa Robertson’s Boat works against the certainties much poetry strives to achieve.

Jay Hopler’s final collection, Still Life, joins a canon of work by poets facing mortality.

Amidst the AIDS crisis and mass homophobia, the annual OutWrite conference gave LGBTQ writers a community in the 1990s. 

The Collected Works of Kathleen Tankersley Young reintroduces an enigmatic poet at the center of American Modernism.

On Monica Ong’s Planetaria.