Articles

How to create a mother tongue.

Clare Bucknell’s The Treasuries examines how poetry anthologies have shaped national identity—and preserved some poems better left forgotten.

With help from technology, The Wild Hunt Divinations recovers the renegade queer subtext of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

In Joshua Bennett’s history of spoken word, poetry is alive and well thanks to a movement that began in living rooms and bars.

Monica Youn’s From From troubles the notion of a fixed identity.

Amy Clampitt's poetry career began late, but as a new biography attests, she was always a writer of deep ambition and erotic intensity. 

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, a new collection by Homero Aridjis, is a phantasmagoria of Mexico’s ghosts, myths, and brutal landscapes.  

Maggie Millner’s Couplets is a story of love, sex, and betrayal in Bed-Stuy.

Rachel Zucker considers literary wrongness—from John Keats to confessional poetry—in a book that has the energy of a manifesto.  

Transness and elegy intertwine in K. Iver’s debut collection.