Three American Poets

by Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. Featuring: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. Continue Reading »

1 May 2018

April: By God

by Dan Hitchens

E. E. Cummings’s springtime poems express not just wild abandon, but also humble reverence.  Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2018

Poet in History

by Helen Andrews

Miłosz: A Biographyby andrzej franaszektranslated by aleksandra parker and michael parkerbelknap, 544 pages, $35 The impression left in the mind of an American reader, after he finishes Andrzej Franaszek’s exhaustive new biography of Czesław Miłosz, is the absurdity that this man was ever . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Hating Poetry

by Peter J. Leithart

Ben Lerner’s elegant, amusing essay turns on a distinction between Poetry and poems. Poetry is Caedmon’s dream, a virtual ideal that actual poems can’t live up to. “The fatal problem with poetry,” Lerner writes, is “poems.” Every poet is, inevitably, “a tragic figure.” Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2016

Failed Poets

by Martyn Wendell Jones

Roberto Bolaño neatly captures the spirit of The Savage Detectives in an establishing scene early in the book. Seventeen-year-old Juan García Madero is the beneficiary of an unexpected sexual favor in the back room of a restaurant. When he is close to experiencing la petite mort, a waitress pokes . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2015