Articles

An inadvertent autobiography and a posthumous collection capture Tomaž Šalamun's ethic of astonishment. 

Forough Farrokhzad’s forthright poems of desire.

Anna Mendelssohn, once imprisoned as an alleged terrorist, challenges easy truisms about the relation between politics and poetry.

In Customs, Solmaz Sharif excavates the fraught political and cultural inheritances of language. 

Written in the aftermath of an epic breakup, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems captured the early ’70s zeitgeist. How does a new edition read?

Niina Pollari writes into the astonishments of grief.

Eavesdropping on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s diaries.

Richie Hofmann’s A Hundred Lovers, ostensibly an inventory of erotic encounters, invites readers into more than just the bedroom.

Florine Stettheimer was a brilliant American painter of the 1920s and '30s. As a new biography reminds us, she also wrote poems that share the idiosyncratic charm of her visual...

Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows at 100.