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Poetry
April 6, 2014
Adam Thirlwell
The Greatest Ex-Nazi Writer
Never heard of Gottfried Benn? It's because of his politics
March 29, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
The Prophet in the Library
The previously undiscovered speech that launched Leonard Cohen's career
March 1, 2014
Germaine Greer
'The Poetry of Sex' Isn't Actually About Sex
February 21, 2014
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Boys
February 11, 2014
William H. Pritchard
Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?
February 7, 2014
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin: 'History Lesson' and 'Saying Goodbye'
December 31, 2013
Alice Robb
The Best New Year's Drinking Advice Comes from Dionysus
The Greek god of wine says quit after three drinks
December 10, 2013
Hillary Kelly
Emily Dickinson’s Poetry As It Was Meant To Be Read
December 9, 2013
Allen Tate
John Milton Was Born 405 Years Ago Today.
Here's Why He Still Matters.
December 3, 2013
Pierre Reverdy
Body and Soul Superimposed
November 18, 2013
Helen Vendler
Wallace Stevens' Voice Was "Life-Saving"
November 12, 2013
Henri Cole
How Robert Lowell Turned Words Into Art
Henri Cole explains the poet's genius
October 31, 2013
Wyatt Prunty
The Widow's Halloween
August 21, 1976
October 27, 2013
Adam Plunkett
The Poetry World's Most Indiscriminate Fanboy
October 16, 2013
Traci Brimhall
The Last Time I Saw My Daughter's Eyes, They Were On the Back of a Moth's Wings
October 9, 2013
John Koethe
Skinny Poem
October 7, 2013
Tim Liardet
Morpheum
October 4, 2013
Anne Carson
Short Talk on the Withness of the Body
October 4, 2013
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton's "The Hoarder"
February 26, 1972
October 4, 2013
Helen Vendler
My Memories of Seamus Heaney

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