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Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

In Conversation With the Author of “Coachella Elegy”

By Literary Hub | July 8, 2024

What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

Rachel Cohen on an Epistolary Friendship Between Two Giants of American Poetry

By Rachel Cohen | March 19, 2024

Armen Davoudian on Immigration, Enjambments, and How Poems Can Make Loss Tangible

Armen Davoudian on Immigration, Enjambments, and How Poems Can Make Loss Tangible

The Author of “The Palace of Forty Pillars” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | March 11, 2024

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Bad Hobby and Sycamore">Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore

By Peter Mishler | March 15, 2023

Queer Correspondence: On the Radical Potential of Epistolary Poetry

Queer Correspondence: On the Radical Potential of Epistolary Poetry

Madeleine Cravens Considers the Poems That Explore the Spaces Between Public and Private

By Madeleine Cravens | February 6, 2023

Nonsense, Puns, and Dirty Limericks: A Serious Look at Poetic Wordplay

Nonsense, Puns, and Dirty Limericks: A Serious Look at Poetic Wordplay

Brad Leithauser Considers the Comedy of Verse

By Brad Leithauser | February 23, 2022

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Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

By Kate Guadagnino | April 26, 2021

Elizabeth Bishop">Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
Elizabeth Bishop

By James Merrill | April 1, 2021

Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

By Patricia M. Dwyer | March 16, 2021

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones in Praise of Literary Tourism (Done Well)

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | December 8, 2020

On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel

On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel

"Travel was and will always be about exclusion."

By Intan Paramaditha | March 2, 2020

Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

On a 20th-Century Writers' Paradise

By Thomas Travisano | November 12, 2019

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

Elizabeth Bales Frank on the Pleasures and Perils of Introducing Attorneys to Poetry

By Elizabeth Bales Frank | July 23, 2019

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

Liza Wieland on Finding Darkness Where So Many Find Light

By Liza Wieland | June 28, 2019

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

Patricia Dwyer Revisits the Spaces She Has Lost

By Patricia M. Dwyer | May 7, 2019

The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language

The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language

Plus Some Bonus Poems, Because We Love You

By Emily Temple | March 7, 2019

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