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Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

We live in a communal experiment called the world. We were born into architectures of thought and art and culture that have been being built for millennia, shaped by all...

John Burnside presents five poems that transcend traditional notions of poetry as elitist, such as Federico García Lorca's 1924 poem, 'Farewell,' for The Guardian. 

At Kenyon Review, Kristina Marie Darling makes a case for seeing Marianne Moore as a philosopher.

Writing poems had been easy so far, and fun. That joy has never left, even while the problems of becoming an adult human often steal away better attentions.

Literary Hub shares Gabrielle Bellot's essay about her experience with poet Marianne Moore's essay "Feeling and Precision."

Scholar Jacquelyn Ardam, Visiting Assistant Professor in English at Colby College, writes for BLARB about The International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, which she visited recently with her friend Angela. Mostly she is...

My to-do list today says, “Cephalopod poem,” as in write one.  I’ve been thinking about cephalopods because I just read Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins...

For Boston Review, Christopher J. Adamson reviews Marianne Moore's New Collected Poems, edited by Heather Cass White and published last year by FSG. "Complete Poems is—by Moore’s own design—far from complete; White’s New...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley's Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (Harvard University Press, 2017), a book which aims to tell how it came to be that so...