The municipal library of Rouen, France, inaugurated on July 4, 1809, formed part of this history of democratized access to ...

Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...

Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...

Whenever I open the fridge, the same poem falls off the door: “you against the green screen, a place / without history,” from Tracy Fuad’s collection about:blank. The poem is printed on a postcard, ...

And take upon's the mystery of things. As if we were God's spies . . .

the castigations and the bountiful.

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...