When Joy Harjo speaks, she does so poetically. “We’re not trying to mean exactly here,” she says as she explains what distinguishes poetry from other types of expression. “What we are doing is trying ...
I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...
Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. On January 15, 1605, a young Dutch woman, Brechje Spiegels, died suddenly, catching everyone by surprise. A few days earlier her beloved, poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ...
Let us suppose that you view yourself — at least some of the time — as a serious, intelligent reader, interested in history, ideas and art. Maybe you work for the government, maybe you're an attorney ...
Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. On January 15, 1605, a young Dutch woman, Brechje Spiegels, died suddenly, catching everyone by surprise. A few days earlier her beloved, poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ...
The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry. It must have been in 1979: I picture it happening at Books & Co. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, ...
How poetry is used by Persian-speaking leaders to build legitimacy and shape the political narrative.
The numbers behind "Language for a New Century" are impressive, if a little daunting: Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian ...