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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 27, 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 13, 2018


A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
CIAHNAN DARRELL | Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque...
Apr 13, 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


An Unreliable Alchemy
IRINA DUMITRESCU | One day the world shifted, and no one noticed but me...
Nov 10, 2017


Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
Sep 14, 2017


Landscapes of the Soul
MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...
Aug 17, 2017


Translating Poetry: An Act and Art of Preserving the Essential
RACHEL TZVIA BACK | The modern Hebrew word for “translation” — tirgum (root letters t-r-g-m) — can be traced back to Aramaic, with cognates in the ancient Semitic languages of Akkadian and Ugaritic...
May 20, 2014




Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs
LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...
Jan 27, 2014


Meaning and Mystery and Love
ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...
Nov 20, 2013
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