Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics.  She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was...

Are you angry at nature? said God to His woman. Yes I am angry at nature I do not want nature stuck up between my legs on your pink...

Here Catullus finds his own love gone to others.   Nuns coated in silver were not so naked As our night interviews. Now what plum...

Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community for over forty years as a writer, professor, and...

Anne Atik is the author of three books of poetry, Words in Hock (1974), Offshore (1991) and In and Out of Season (forthcoming), Drancy (198...

Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of six books, including Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in fall of 2017....

Alix Anne Shaw is the author of three poetry collections: Rough Ground (Etruscan, 2018), Dido in Winter (Persea, 2014), and Undertow...

Carol Ann Davis’ newest book, Atlas Hour, was published in August by Tupelo Press.  She directs the undergraduate creative writing program...

Anne Marie Macari is the author of She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008), Gloryland (Alice James, 2005), and Ivory...

Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fifth volume of poetry, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the...

Ann Claremont Le Zotte’s poems have appeared in The Plum Review, The New Republic and The Threepenny Review. She is the recipient of a 1996...

In the alleys below her heart, a drain, as if inside there’s a city, blood gathering in a pool, a cistern.    When it overflows,...

1.   I don’t begin by thinking, And now I will commit this poem to memory.   Instead, I’m reading a poem. It’s a poem I’ve read...

—after Emily Dickinson   Was what came over you                           anything like this                 a cold wind on the neck...

a bayonet in a tattoo in the shape of a skull-at-arms this was what we were up against as girls stood up for their dream in the way of...

Say “bells” say “buckskin leggings” say “drumstick” say “domestic” say “throb” say “cautionary” say “quit it” say “I don’t” say “gray sky,...

  I Come From a Long Line of Modest Achievers   I’m fond of recalling how my mother is fond of recalling how my great-grandfather was...

I   The shortest day of the year, and she— he? all right, I—count up the days, count up the days till the oh my lord the end of...

      Love couldn’t have been sweeter, when you were Writing about it in your glorious opera about the sea: the waves.       Were your...

1.   You dream you’ve been assigned to care for a pangolin: spiny anteater, artichoke   of gold with bright leaves for scales....

  Lately, the word extinction floats around in my interior conversations, spurred most obviously by environmental destruction, endless...

and like God, I will cast you out.    Your eyes blue as a drowned thing.    Your harshest lesson: you are no part of me....

  “Poetry is a waste of time,” my roommate asserted, settling himself at the kitchen table, “it doesn’t do anything.” This sentiment,...

Light and I “met,” if we can call it that, when we were both taking part in Lambda Literary's virtual 2021 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging...

 C. K. Williams * William Greenway * Mary Kinzie * Anne Carson * Marvin Bell * Maggie Anderson * Tom Clark * Sharon Olds * Theodore Weiss *...

                                                       After Anne Carson   Day after day the mountain of the most high received its...

When Kara Thrace first appeared on the screen and it became clear to the audience of the new Battlestar Galactica that Starbuck was a woman...

Edward Hirsch * Leslie Scalapino * Richard Pau-Llosa * Ann Lauterbach * Deborah Digges * Joe Wenderoth * Tara Fenlon * Beckian Fritz...

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: CAROL ANN DAVIS * ANNE MARIE MACARI * MATTHEW DICKMAN * KATHLEEN OSSIP * FRANNY CHOI * KELLY FORSYTHE * MAXINE SCATES *...

D. Nurkse * Carol Ann Davis * Kallie Falandays * Shelley Wong * Sara Michas-Martin * Erika Meitner * C. Dale Young * Stephen Dunn * Judy...

  For years, I have tried to reconcile my belief in poetry with what I think of poets as people. It wasn’t always this way. Like many...

Louise Glück * Robin Becker * John Koethe * William Kulik * Allen Ginsberg * Ken Fontenot * Ann Lauterback * Stephen Dobyns   

Tom Clark is a member of the Core Faculty in Poetics and New College of California.  His books include Zombie Dawn, a collaboration with...

Caroline Harper New is a writer and visual artist from southwest Georgia. She is currently on a Zell Fellowship at the University of...

Joanne Dominique Dwyer* Jason Schneiderman * Peter Waldor * Anna Journey * Stephen Berg * David Keplinger * John Poch * Lee Ann Roripaugh *...

Ann Lauterbach * David Bottoms * Paul Breslin * Marilyn Hacker * Christopher Buckley * William Matthews * Norman Loftis * Jane Satterfield...

Barbara Einzig * Christopher Merrill * Stéphanie Mallarmé * Robert Desnos * Lois-Ann Yamanaka * Carl Dennis * Shirley Kaufman * Donald...

James McManus * Kenneth Koch * Kathleem Ossip * Mary Leader *Thomas Sayers Ellis * James Fenton * Anne Marie Macari * Brian Clements * Eve...

Robin Becker * Bob King * John Berryman * Amanda Pecor * Gillian Conoley * Keith Althaus * Ronald Goodman * J.S. Vent * Steve Orlen * D....

Charles Wright * Ann Lauterbach * J.S. Venit * Larry Levis * Gerald Stern * Aharon Shabtai * Harold Schimmel * Yona Wallach * Meir...

Also in this issue: Liz Countryman * Yusef Komunyakaa * Ed Pavlic * Tony Hoagland * Marianne Boruch * Kjerstin Anne Kauffman * Kate...

 Also in this issue: Jane Mead * Carol Muske-Dukes * Michael Ryan * Diane K. Martin * Elaine Equi * Allison Eir Jenks * Beth Bachmann *...

 L.S. Asekoff * Brenda Marie Osbey * Stanley Plumley * Stephen Sandy * Robin Becker * Ann Lauterbach * Kenneth Koch * W.D. Ehrhart *...

Ralph Angel * Adrienne RIch * Liam Rector * Marin Sorescu * Linh Dinh * Henri Cole * Hayden Carruth * Eileen Myles * Anne Marie Macari *...

Tom Clark * Amanda Pecor * Robert Creeley * Doug Swift * Robert Hass * Yusef Komunyakaa * W.S. Merwin * Joyce Carol Oates * Gerald Stern *...

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: CARL DENNIS * RAFAEL CAMPO * DAVID RIVARD * JAMES GRINWIS * MARA JEBSEN * NATHAN WHITING * C.D. WRIGHT * STANLEY MOSS *...

John Felstiner * Edward Hirsch * Dara Wier * Reginald Gibbons * Clayton Eshleman * Alicia Ostriker * Rose Styron * Eavan Boland * Norman...

Sarah Gorham * Frederica Wagman * Taha Muhammad Ali * John Yau * Johann Hjalmarsson * Joan Murray * Stephen Dunn * Euripides trans. by Anne...

Michael Palmer * Anne-Marie Albiach * John Shinder * Joshua Beckman *Stephen Dunn * Doreen Gildroy *Sam Hamill * Koyabashi Issa * Stanley...

 James Schuyler * Laurence Lieberman * Elaine Bleakney * Bridget Carson * Claudia Keelan * Michael McGriff * Ted Solotaroff * Stephen...

Celia Bland * Norman Dubie * David Wojahn * Joanna Goodman * Katherine McCord * F.D. Reeve * Laura McCullough * Christopher Buckley * Major...

Carol Muske * Jorie Graham * Sam Hamill * Elaine Laura Kleiner * Ray Di Palma * Elias Canetti * Phyllis Stowell * Donald Hall * James...

Kerrin McCadden * Marianne Boruch * Wayne Miller * Jane Hirshfield * Adrian Blevins * Liana Sakelliou * Aliki Barnstone * Anne Marie Macari...

Matthew Lippman * Brynn Saito * Jeneva Burroughs Stone * Bruce Smith * Felicia Zamora * Kristina Marie Darling * Ira Sukrungruang * Elisa...

Kate Northrop * Fred Brandfon * Bianca Tarozzi * William  Heyen * Afaa Michael Weaver * Gordon Marino * Sophie Cabot Black * Jack DeWitt *...

Bob Hicok * Anne Marie Macari * Gregory Orr * Valerie Martinez * Robin Ekiss * Ira Sadoff * Paul Celan * Anna Journey * David Huerta *...

A.R. Ammons * Gertrude Stein * Mark Jarman * Mark Jarman * Reginald Shepherd * Ann Lauterback * Lucien Stryk * Louise Gluck * Jeff Clark *...

Kenneth Koch * Anne Hébert * Marilyn Nelson Waniek * Gerald Barrax * A.R. Ammons * Joyce Mansour * Lucien Styrk * Walter Pavlich * Czeslaw...

Jean Sénac * Justin Vicari * Stanley Kunitz * Genine Lentine * Aaron Fagan * Maxine Scates * A.R. Ammons * David Lehman * Nance Van Winckel...

Also in this issue:  Sally Ball * Nadia Colburn * Alicia Ostriker * Spencer Reece * Eve Grubin * David Biespiel * Paul Siegell * Benjamin...

Cynthia Cruz * Mahmoud Darwish * Kazim Ali * Iman Mersal * Mark Irwin * Leslie Chang * Alan Williamson * Carol Muske Dukes * Crystal Ann...

Lynn Emanuel * Adrienne Rich * Jericho Brown * Michael Broek * John Ashbery * Carol Ann Davis * Julianna Baggott * Jeff Encke * Rachel...

Gerald Stern * Oliver de la Paz * Jennifer Militello * Matt Terhune * Kathleen Ossip * W.D.Ehrhart * Sophie Cabot Black * Sarah Blackman *...

 Jennifer Givhan * Forrest Gander * Anne Marie Macari * Humberto Ak'abal * Michael Bazzett * Kelle Groom * Cynthia Arrieu-King * Robert...

Tolu Oloruntoba was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied and practiced medicine. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The...

Join us as we band together with Adroit, Pleiades, and The Kenyon Review to bring some wonderful poets to Seattle! The LIT UP reading will...

  Kaveh Akbar: I first read Jos Charles’s feeld as a Word document two years ago. I admired her first book, Safe Space, and wanted to...

For this edition of the column, I am forgoing my usual approach, which is to talk about recent works of poetry under the umbrella of a...

This is the third of a three-part column that explores the relationship between pressure — psychological, societal and aesthetic — and the...

  Kaveh Akbar and Jane Hirshfield have been in a running e-mail conversation since January 2016, when Akbar first contacted Hirshfield...

Poetry says— in however attenuated, confident or skeptical a fashion—  “This is like that.” Poetry in some accounts stands apart from...

Twelve years ago, I adopted a young baby in Vietnam and made myself a firm but vague promise not to “raise him white.” But what did that...

“It’s my duty as a poet to push my language and consciousness as far into the ‘forbidden’ as possible,” declares Wayne Koestenbaum in the...