Growing out of a Fall 2017 project initially submitted for…
Writer’s Block, Dickinson, and the Wonder of Interior Life
I don’t remember when poetry came into my life…
100th Volume Retrospective: Happy Autumn Fields by John Ashbery
John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award,…
100th Volume Retrospective: from “Dakar Doldrums” by Allen Ginsberg
At Columbia University, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and other beat poets got…
100th Volume Retrospective: Choruses by John Hollander
John Hollander was an eminent poet, scholar, and critic. He…
100th Volume Retrospective: Atonement by Mary Morris
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Endnotes on Pale Fire
Azure adj. blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false…
Water Lilies after Monet
And light— my paint liquid light— the pale flush of…
Eating Bread is Wooden Ships Crashing on the Shore
There is a dial tone in the mirror. In a…
Exeter Book Riddle #47: The Book-Moth
Original Old English: Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu…