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On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

Susan Gubar Explores the Multifaceted Life and Work of America’s Foremost Female Poet of the 20th Century

By Susan Gubar | June 9, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

A Conversation with the Author of “Hereafter”

By Literary Hub | June 10, 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

Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel

Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel

"What will we do with its work when it is good? How will we reckon then with what this tool can do?"

By Sean Michaels | September 8, 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

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Did you know Marianne Moore and Muhammad Ali wrote a poem together?

By Dan Sheehan | November 15, 2019

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

By Elizabeth Bales Frank | July 23, 2019

Trying to Get Beyond the Cliches of Literary Brooklyn

By Richard Kreitner | June 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

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 5, 2019

22 Photos of Famous Authors and Their Moms

22 Photos of Famous Authors and Their Moms

Happy Mother's Day

By Emily Temple | May 11, 2018

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

She Was "Too Critical to Be a Poet and Too Poetic to Be a Critic"

By Evan Kindley | September 27, 2017

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

A List of Lists Featuring a Lot of Poets

By Emily Temple | July 24, 2017

A Very Rare Book by One of America's All-Time Great Athletes

A Very Rare Book by One of America's All-Time Great Athletes

History of the Olympics">Visiting Jim Thorpe's $10,000 History of the Olympics

By Dwyer Murphy | August 5, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Poets, Pretensions, and Burglaries

Five Books Making News This Week: Poets, Pretensions, and Burglaries

Marianne Moore, Dan Fox, Karan Mahajan, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | April 12, 2016