Commentary on why poetry matters.
"The Word Sonnet: A Distillation" (2021)
"No One Gets Sylvia Plath" by Emily Van Duyne (2020)
"Super-Close Reading: On Marjorie Perloff鈥檚 Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics"听by Tal Goldfajn (2022)
"A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight" by Elisa Gabbert (2022)
"The Job of a Poet Is to Witness" by Saeed Jones (2021)
"'Why try / to revive the lyric': Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss" by Patrick Flanery (2022)
"Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever" by Rajat Singh (2016)
"3 Contemporary Poets on Identity, Form, and Politics" by Ruben Quesada (2018)
"Literary scholar and poet Lucy Alford on Poetry and Attention" (2015)
"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" by Adrienne Rich (1972)
"Poetry Is Not A Luxury" by Audre Lorde (1985)
"The Poetics of Disobedience" by Alice Notley (2010)
"The Places Bodies Can鈥檛 Reach" by Mia You (2021)
"'America Is a Myth': A Conversation with Natalie Diaz" by Natasha Hakimi Zapata (2021)
鈥淭he Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture鈥� by Louise Gl眉ck (2020)
鈥淐lose Readings鈥� by Seamus Perry and Mark Ford (2020)
鈥淧art of Your America鈥� by Kevin Okoth (2020)
鈥淭his Is Not an Essay on Poetry of the Past 20 Years鈥� by Maureen N. McLane (2020)
鈥淧oetic Politics鈥� by Nicole Brossard (1990)
鈥淥n the Function of the Line鈥� by Denise Levertov (1979)
鈥淪ounding Auden鈥� by Seamus Heaney (1987)
鈥淚nstant Poetry: A Sign of Cultural Decline鈥� by David Solway (2020)
鈥淲hen the Spirit Moves鈥� by Eavan Boland (1944-2020) (1995)
鈥淲hy Poetry Is Having a Moment Amid the Global Quarantine鈥� by Keziah Weir (2020)
鈥淭hat Formal Feeling鈥� by Elisa Gabbert (2018)
鈥淚nstagram, PBS, 'The Nation': Poetry Is Everywhere鈥� by Megan Garber (2018)
鈥淗ow Poetry Came to Matter Again鈥� by Jesse Lichtenstein (2018)
鈥淧oetry Is a Way of Being in the World that Wasn't Made for Us鈥� by Jennifer Bartlett (2018)
鈥淗ow Poetry Helps Me Fulfill My Hipocratic Oath鈥� by Danny W. Linggonegoro (2018)
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