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For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

We can’t ignore our limitations, of course, but they shouldn’t be a reason not to translate in the first place. Perhaps one has to admit [...] that one never will...

On the morning of Saturday July 21st 2019, while reading, I noticed a tiny empty space in the center of my vision.

Starting with William Carlos Williams, Nick Ripatrazone's latest article at Literary Hub is a meditation on self-publishing, in particular, its ties to the poetry world.

The work of all ecopoets attests to the fact that we can’t leave it up to corporate or government powers to define “the good life” for us.

I left the workshop understanding poetry could perhaps save my life, if I gave it a chance.

Lesley Harrison and I met in Manhattan on one of those increasingly common hot October mornings when it still feels like summer. She was visiting New York from her home...

Turn one way and it’s all chatter. The chatter is clear, prosaic. Institutions treasure this particular form of language. Monikered as transparency, it reveals less than it conceals. This is the...

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...