My Lost Poet
Anger and tenderness in Philip Levine. Photo: Frances Levine In the spring of 2012, Philip Levine delivered a lecture at the Library of Congress called “My Lost Poets,” marking the end of his tenure as...
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The elliptical life of Etheridge Knight. Etheridge Knight This piece is part of a lecture for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, a nonprofit that provides poets with the opportunity to explore in-depth...
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We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! Etheridge Knight The elliptical life of Etheridge Knight. This piece is...
View ArticleThe Oblivion of Adam
What if you could remember every poem in the next life? From the cover of The Tongue of Adam, available now from New Directions The dead play a sly trick on the living: in dying, they pass on the duty...
View ArticlePainting Is the New Shouting, and Other News
Detail from a painting by Kaya Mar reprinted in Satire Magazine. We live in a golden age for clever protest signs. As bodies in the streets have proliferated, so, too, have canny shows of devastating...
View ArticleRules for Consciousness in Mammals
Clarice Lispector. Anyone who talks about Clarice Lispector and psychoanalysis is likely to say something foolish, not least because psychoanalysis is a discipline of listening, not talking. And, in...
View ArticleThe Written World and the Unwritten World
Atelier of the Boxes, ivory writing tablet and lid (Medieval, between 1340 and 1360, northern France). Walters Art Museum, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I belong to that portion of humanity—a...
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