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Poetry

A Defence of Science

  • Author Emily Sun
  • PublishedMay 8, 2019May 8, 2019

Growing out of a Fall 2017 project initially submitted for Professor Richard Sacks’ “The English Sonnet” course at Columbia University, Emily Sun’s essay is an…

Writer’s Block, Dickinson, and the Wonder of Interior Life

  • Author David Ehmcke
  • PublishedMarch 9, 2019October 6, 2020

I don’t remember when poetry came into my life…

100th Volume Retrospective: Happy Autumn Fields by John Ashbery

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 14, 2018October 13, 2019

John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and many other prizes. This poem was published by the Review over twenty years after he…

100th Volume Retrospective: from “Dakar Doldrums” by Allen Ginsberg

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 13, 2018December 13, 2018

At Columbia University, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and other beat poets got to know each other. Many of them were published in the Review. from “Dakar Doldrums”…

100th Volume Retrospective: Choruses by John Hollander

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 12, 2018December 12, 2018

John Hollander was an eminent poet, scholar, and critic. He has written numerous poetry collections, the first of which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets…

100th Volume Retrospective: Atonement by Mary Morris

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 1, 2018December 2, 2018

As a countdown to the release of the first issue of our 100th volume on December 14th, we will be posting pieces every day from previous issues…

Endnotes on Pale Fire

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedNovember 6, 2018

  Azure adj.    blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…

Water Lilies after Monet

  • Author Callum Kiser
  • PublishedSeptember 25, 2018September 25, 2018

And light— my paint liquid light— the pale flush of rose lustrous daffodil yellow lilac blue and soft electric silver warm blaze colored oil glowing…

Eating Bread is Wooden Ships Crashing on the Shore 

  • Author Alec Hershman
  • PublishedApril 30, 2018April 30, 2018

There is a dial tone in the mirror. In a single room, blue invents a forest, and when the light arrives, it arrives like milk,…

Exeter Book Riddle #47: The Book-Moth

  • Author Emily Sun
  • PublishedDecember 31, 2017January 2, 2018
  • 1 Comment on Exeter Book Riddle #47: The Book-Moth

Original Old English: Moððe word fræt.        Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd,        þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg        wera gied sumes, þeof in…

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