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Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

By Ilya Kaminsky | August 20, 2025

Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

Diana Arterian Explores the All-Consuming Ancient Obsession Behind Her Latest Poetry Collection

By Diana Arterian | June 16, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Finding Your Way Back to Wonder: On the Power of Poetry to Sustain Our Spirits

Molly McCully Brown: “I hope I can look long and hard enough to let the mess and the mystery break my heart.”

By Molly McCully Brown | October 23, 2024

Poetry’s Mysterious Power: A Conversation With Dara Barrois/Dixon

Poetry’s Mysterious Power: A Conversation With Dara Barrois/Dixon

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts”

By Peter Mishler | July 25, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

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