Ellen Bass’s books include Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon, 2014), The Human Line, and Mules of Love. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the...
There are things you can’t tell a child — they’d sit too heavily upon him, like the crowns of young royalty: Tutankhamen holding up...
While Sophie lay in perfect symmetry between death and life, I pictured da Vinci’s Vitruvian man stretched within the hoop of existence....
“I’m fat and I’m old and I’m going to die,” Dorianne says as we’re taking our after dinner walk on the grounds of the Esalen Institute...
The city is quiet as though it’s cried itself out. Circle Market, its windows busy with stickers for surfboard wax and bands with...
Ellen Doré Watson’s collection Ladder Music won the New York/New England Award from Alice James. She directs the Poetry Center at Smith...
An unmarriage is not a sweater half unraveled or sheared in two not half of anything not a husk or shed thing or artifact behind...
Prairie dog, totem pole, cluster of grapes: do we choose our omens or they us? I think I see tunnels, painted faces turning wooden,...
Michael Gluck * Reginald Gibbons * Ellen Dore Watson * Matthew Lippman * Christopher Buckley * James Reidel * Morton Marcus * Joseph...
Also in this issue: Katie Ford * Matthew Zapruder * Tony Hoagland * Ellen Bass * Norman Dubie * Jan Garden Castro * Rene Char * Susan...
Also in this issue: Allison Adair * Michael Bazzett * Ellen Bass * Eric Berlin * Bruce Smith * David Biespiel * Piotr Florczyk * Dan...
Gillian Conoley * Leslie Sainz * Asa Drake * Elizabeth A.I. Powell * Philip Metres * Ellen Bass * Emily Wallis Hughes * Carrie Fountain *...
Taneum Bambrick * Noor Hindi * Ellen Bass * Matthew Yeager * Heather Christle * Piotr Gwiazda * Rafael Campo * Minnie Bruce Pratt * Ryo...
“I think of The American Poetry Review as one of the strongest literary forces of our time. APR is where I go to both discover new...
THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW 50: TESTIMONIALS MAJOR JACKSON My relationship with APR began as an assignment, not with a...
Eleanor Wilner once asked me if I knew the poetry of Etheridge Knight. Most famously known for his prison poems, Knight...
Jane Rohrer * Arielle Greenberg * David Roderick * Carmen Boullosa * Jeff Friedman * Ellen McGrath Smith * Todd Davis * Carl Dennis *...
Cynthia Cruz * Ellen Bryant Voigt * Kathleen Ossip * David Rivard * Christopher Hennessy * Lidija Dimkovska * W.D. Ehrhart * Michael Broek...
Joseph Millar * Albert Goldbarth * Sarah Blake * Daniel Borzutzky * Lynn Emanuel * Stephen Dunn * Michael Broek * Paula Simonetti * Tatiana...
Aimee Nezhukumatathil * Sarah Vap * Jason Schneiderman * Paul Celan * Ilana Shmueli * Kythe Heller * John Rybicki * Carmen Gimenez Smith *...
Yusef Komunyakaa * Merle Brown * Mark Doty * Laura Kasischke * David Trinidad * Stanley Moss * Tam Lin Neville * Inger Christensen * Kazim...
W.S. Merwin * Nuala Archer * A.F. Moritz * Brooke Horvath * Michael Fried * Donald Revell * Sarah Menefee * Yannis Ritsos * Gore Vidal *...
On reading, and running with, Siegfried Sassoon My year of graduate work in Cambridge, England was a somewhat bleak and desperate...
Halfway through the semester when asked how it was going, I liked to say “My Archangel got Covid” because it was funny, because it was...
