This essay originally appeared in La Bibliothèque de Rouen: 200 ans d’histoire (s), edited by Marie-Françoise Rose. Annie ...
The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...
Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...
Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...
The other day we shared recordings of Garrison Keillor, William Styron, and Iris Murdoch as part of an ongoing collaboration with 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Since 1985, the Poetry Center and The ...
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
I only made it hard for him specifically.