On Verse
No Holds Barred: On Manuel Vilas
An essay on the inventive, desolate, and celebratory writing of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas.
What Was Before comes Back: Tess Taylor’s California Chronicles
Tess Taylor is one of our great poets of nature and the premier chronicler of her native California.
A Moment’s Hesitation: The Indirect Language of Similes
Unlike the metaphor, the simile signals its own happening. It deals in images and concepts, setting these next to each other while retaining their separate identities.
The Scandalous Confessions of a Lesbian Formalist Poet
I am saying that you must be a poet, because you are asking so many questions.
Consider the Octopus: On Brenda Shaughnessy
What better symbol for the middle aged woman—for the middle aged woman writer?
Traces in Rituals: On Kiriti Sengupta
The famed Kolkata poet seeks coherence in the chaos we call reality.
The Poetry of Julio César Aguilar
Poet, translator, editor, director of poetry projects, and professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Julio César Aguilar was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, in 1970. He is the author…
Chaucer was more than English: he was a great European poet
In 2013, a Prospect magazine profile of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the Brexiteer’s party in Chaucerian terms: UKIP is indeed a rag-tag bag … of cussed, contrary, wilful,…
Torn in the sky: on Ilya Kaminsky and Shane McCrae
In Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky connects our current era to a place and time that feels Soviet, although familiar. The book is a narrative with dramatis personae—townspeople, an unborn child,…