Faith in the Particular
“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot
All posts filed under: Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
Touching Time: The Poetry and Performance of Charles Simic
“History consumes. It takes away and does not give back.”—an essay by Austen Leah Rose
On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open
“There was an inner story that I didn’t yet understand, and the publication problem served mainly as a distraction from it.”
—On Failure, by Nadia Colburn
Can Poetry Be a Vehicle for Social Change?
“At a time when economic injustice is at a near all-time high, unions are under attack, and art seems increasingly to have been subordinated to politics, it might do both worlds good to see where they intersect.”
—an essay by Alex Gallo-Brown
Time Flown
“Rekdal’s poems show characters amidst great transformations, and more importantly, allow the reader to change alongside them.”
Bill Carty on Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale
Like a Veil: on Humanness, Shame, and Mark Baumer
by Jeff Alessandrelli | Contributing Writer
Genre, Form, Captivity, and Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Creative Writing
by Lucy Biederman | Contributing Writer
Now I Feel I Am On My Way
Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle’s Dunce
More of a River
“How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?”
Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney
Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye