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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 25, 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 11, 2019


Christian Wiman Illuminated
SCOTT CASLETON | The poet possesses the power of transfiguration...
Mar 28, 2019


Does Law Disdain Literature?
ANDREW KAU | In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his near-miss with the practice of law...
Nov 9, 2018


Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
KEVIN BLANKINSHIP | War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature...
Sep 13, 2018




Honey on a Razorblade
THOMAS J. MILLAY | Once, I sat alone on my front porch, in the dark, breathing in the night air...
May 10, 2018


A Future for a Handful of Hours
ROSEBUD BEN-ONI | It was not until our very last conversation— when you asked if I read you Amichai’s Poems of Jerusalem to keep...
Apr 26, 2018


A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
TOM MILLAY | In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist literary magazine that consistently reviewed...
Apr 12, 2018


A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
CIAHNAN DARRELL | Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque...
Apr 12, 2018


The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
DAVID CURRELL | Imagine this review beginning with a little game...
Feb 2, 2018


The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry
TOM MILLAY | Kevin Hart is not one to boast...
Jan 5, 2018
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