Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

A personal reflection on poetry—from the harsh truths of Philip Larkin to the whimsical absurdity of Edward Lear, and the ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “ ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...

Jeet Thayil’s long-awaited poetry collection blends personal grief with sharp social commentary, navigating the intersections ...

Living during the early to mid-20th century, Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and writer, was a religious mystic.