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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...

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA | In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did not exist as they do today...

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Her poetry often renders the familiar close to the strange and places the domestic beside the wild...

NATHANIEL MILLER | Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry...

ALFRED NICOL | The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth decades...

SCOTT CASLETON | The poet possesses the power of transfiguration...

ANDREW KAU | In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his near-miss with the practice of law...

KEVIN BLANKINSHIP | War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature...

ED SIMON | Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase...

THOMAS J. MILLAY | Once, I sat alone on my front porch, in the dark, breathing in the night air...

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...

TOM MILLAY | In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist literary magazine that consistently reviewed...