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Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...
Apr 20


Climate Change: From Gilgamesh to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
SOPHUS HELLE | For the past four years, two tracks have run through my life. One is Gilgamesh
Apr 22, 2022


Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI & OCEAN VUONG | Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Apr 15, 2022


Poems of Fire: The Vision of Makoto Fujimura
SAMUEL LONCAR | We live everyday on the brink of the abyss. Artists feel this. They smell darkness, inhale light.
Apr 8, 2022


Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions
DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...
Dec 18, 2020


Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
ABDUL MANAN BHAT | Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts...
Nov 20, 2020


The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of his body, a stick he uses to hit everyone...
Nov 6, 2020


Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part One
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA | In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did not exist as they do today...
Feb 14, 2020


Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Her poetry often renders the familiar close to the strange and places the domestic beside the wild...
Dec 13, 2019


Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Heresy in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
NATHANIEL MILLER | Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry...
Apr 26, 2019


Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
ALFRED NICOL | The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth decades...
Apr 12, 2019


Christian Wiman Illuminated
SCOTT CASLETON | The poet possesses the power of transfiguration...
Mar 29, 2019
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