Traces in Rituals: On Kiriti Sengupta
The famed Kolkata poet seeks coherence in the chaos we call reality.
Conversations: Jennifer Barber and Leslie McGrath
The “something else” might be close to the original intention, but never exactly it.
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…
The Path
When someone shoots a dark look, I think it is because I am a middle-aged white woman with a spirited black child.
Party On: An experimental review of Ksenia Buksha’s Freedom Factory
It was a surprisingly hilarious novel, a bubbling pot of big personalities, forty short chapters bursting with historical detail, wit, and Communist Party nostalgia.
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,…
The gay-suicide stereotype kills gay people, and must end
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, heir to the mammoth Krupp armaments business and the wealthiest man in Germany, committed suicide on 22 November 1902. Only a week before, a socialist newspaper had…
Conversations: Heidi Seaborn and Martin Ott
“My goal is to reach people who never read poetry, to start a conversation where they see a place for poetry in their lives.”
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,…