Browse features from previous issues:
Dismantling Rage: On Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider
“Renascence”: Edna St. Vincent Millay Today
Poetry & Democracy: Khaled Mattawa on Whitman’s Democratic Vistas
In his essay Democratic Vistas (1871) Walt Whitman writes, “Democracy... is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.”
Richard Blanco on His Poem “Mother Country” and His Work Today
Excerpted from How to Love a Country: Poems (Beacon Press, 2019).
Assuming the Mask: Persona and Identity in Ai’s Poetry
On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Ai's poetry collection, Killing Floor, which received the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1978 and is being reissued by Tavern Books this month, Major Jackson re-examines the celebrated poet's work.
Eileen Myles and Solmaz Sharif: A Conversation Across Generations
Eileen Myles moved from Boston to New York City to become a poet in 1974.
Late Humanism
Ange Mlinko on “The Waste Land”
Among the medieval artifacts in the British Museum is an example of what’s called an acoustic pot.
Kinship of Clay
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.