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- ProfileBy Austin AllenThroughout her 30-year career, Gjertrud Schnackenberg has written poems of ornate splendor, erudite wit, and high formal gloss. At the same time, her major subject has been what Donne called “absence...
- ProfileBy Elizabeth HarballBianca Stone has a healthy fear of illustrations. There are no images inside her 2012 chapbook, I Saw the Devil with His Needlework, and none on the cover. “We respond to images immediately, and we look to...
- ProfileBy Alice Gregory“I am only 22 years old. / I want to fake my death on Facebook,” says the narrator of “Zelda,” one of the 50 poems in Dispatch from the Future, the debut collection of 27-year-old poet Leigh Stein. Though ...
- ProfileBy Daniel BorzutzkyPhoto: Kristin DykstraOf the many problems the poetry translator faces, context is one of the most troubling. Which is to say that if a translator is attempting to create a reading experience in ...
- ProfileBy Spencer BaileyIn 2003, shortly after the release of his debut poetry collection, the poet Timothy Donnelly started having serious dizzy spells, one of which happened in Penn Station. Donnelly decided to visit ...
- ProfileBy Kevin CanfieldBefore he started teaching literature at the University of Massachusetts in 1993, Martín Espada worked as a tenant lawyer in a poor community outside of Boston.As he writes in his new essay collection...
- ProfileBy Dale SmithSotère Torregian, a self-identified French surrealist, perhaps the only such macédoine extant in North America today, grew up in “No Man’s Land with lots of machine gun bullets flying all over the...
- ProfileBy Michelle LeeOriginal artwork by Maggie HillSome 125 years ago, a new playwright named Michael Field created a buzz among London literati with the print debut of two blank-verse dramas in a single volume: the...
- ProfileBy Heidi BroadheadLaura Jensen“It is the lives of the poets that make me say I want to be myself, whatever that has to be, to write poems from my own life and imagination.” —Laura Jensen, “Stars and Streetlights”As a high school...
- ProfileBy Jason BoogCourtesy of Fence Books.Rodrigo Toscano—untucked dress shirt flapping over dark cargo shorts—stands outside the offices of the Labor Institute in downtown Manhattan. The nondescript building is a...
- ProfileBy Jason BoogStaff of the Federal Writers' Project. Courtesy of the National Archives.During the darkest days of the Great Depression, artist Alice Neel painted a surreal portrait of her friend, the poet Kenneth...
- ProfileBy Milan GagnonJuan Felipe Herrera. Photo: Michael EldermanWhen Juan Felipe Herrera started third grade in San Diego’s Barrio Logan, he spoke little English; until then, he’d followed his parents, migrant Mexican farmworkers...
- ProfileBy Geoffrey O'BrienWhen I first discovered Jack Spicer’s poetry in the late 1960s he was already dead, but I had no real way of knowing that. Of all the poets in Donald Allen’s anthology, The New American Poetry—that overwhelming...
- ProfileBy Cynthia HavenThousands lined the streets of Kraków to watch the funeral procession of poet Czesław Miłosz, who died in 2004 at the age of 93. The solemn event had very nearly been a rout.Days earlier, ultra-nationalist...
- ProfileBy Jesse NathanThe United States’ most successful soft-core entrepreneur gave it one of its most beloved children’s poets. In 1956, the young Sheldon Alan Silverstein dropped off a portfolio of about 15 drawings...
- ProfileBy Rachel AvivPhoto: Gentl & Hyers/Arts Counsel, Inc. © 1994In interviews, Grace Paley, who died of breast cancer last year at the age of 84, often talked about what a bad poet she was. “I just never get good....
- ProfileBy Ben EhrenreichI am thinking of the deadWho are still with us.They are not like us, they areYoung and beautiful. . . . —Frank Stanford, “Dreamt by a Man in a Field”Some lives are too easy to read backward. Frank Stanford...
- ProfileBy The Editors"Confronted by the paradox of free/Verse, I trade my meaning for a rhyme," wrote Daryl Hine in "A B.C. Diary," a poem published in the 1975 collection Resident Alien. Indeed, over the course of his...
- ProfileBy Rachel AvivThe Poetry Foundation is sad to report that Landis Everson died on Saturday, an apparent suicide, in Mill Valley, California. Everson received the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award...