“My Truth Was in That Contradiction”: A Conversation with Christine Larusso
Patrick Coleman talks with poet Christine Larusso about her newest project, “There Will Be No More Daughters.”...
For the Homeland but not for Stalin: On Alexander Tvardovsky’s “Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier”
Geoffrey Hosking salutes Alexander Tvardovsky’s “Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier,” translated by James Womack....
Keeping an Accent: On Charles Wright’s “Oblivion Banjo”
Lindsay Turner considers “Oblivion Banjo” by Charles Wright....
Studies in Silence: On Szilárd Borbély’s “Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004–2010”
Carla Baricz considers Szilárd Borbély’s “Final Matters,” the haunting final volumes of one of Hungary’s most celebrated poets....
Failing to Find the Language of Pain: On Gayle Brandeis’s “Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Báthory Speak in Chorus”
Elena Goukassian listens to “Many Restless Concerns,” the new novel in poems by Gayle Brandeis....
All Present and Accounted For: On “The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe”
Sunil Iyengar opens “The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe,” edited by Bhisham Bherwani and Nicholas Birns....
The Enduring Grace of the Trivial: On “The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice”
Art Beck is enchanted by “The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice,” a Greek epic translated by A. E. Stallings....
“A Drive for Beauty”: A Conversation with Daniel Lisi and hollis hart, the Co-Founders of Not a Cult Media
Yesika Salgado speaks to Daniel Lisi and hollis hart, the co-founders of Not a Cult Media....
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Francesc Parcerisas and Ye Lijun
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a look at translated books by poets Francesc Parcerisas and Ye Lijun....
The Beats, the Hungryalists, and the Call of the East
Akanksha Singh considers Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury’s “The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution.”...
“I Wasn’t Even That Good”: On Megan Fernandes’s “Good Boys”
Rachel Carroll considers “Good Boys” by Megan Fernandes....
Your Homie from Another Heart: On Danez Smith’s “Homie”
Amanda Gorman considers “Homie” by Danez Smith....
