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WEEKLY FEATURE


NEW POEMS, BIOS & ESSAYS


  • Spoken Word at the White House
  • Easy Poet Costumes
  • Vampire Poems
  • Linda Gregg: Five Poems
  • Claudia Rankine in Conversation
  • Bright Star: Life & Love of Keats
  • Manuscript Study: Walt Whitman
  • John Koethe on Henri Cole
  • Carl Phillips on Brigit Pegeen Kelly
  • Four Poems by Stephen Benét
  • THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS


    Spotlight Poet
    Kenneth Patchen
    The musician, Devandra Banhart, says his works "highlight a rogue sensibility within our humanity. Every emotion, every joke, every creation jostles us. To experience his work is to discover a peculiar sort of divinity."

    Spotlight Poem
    Book 1, Ode 5, [To Pyrrha]

    by Horace
    What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours / Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, / Pyrrha?

    Spotlight Audio
    A Woman's Delusion

    by Susan Howe
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    Spotlight Essay
    On Black Male Poetics

    by Afaa M. Weaver
    "Greatness can bloat and in that way enlarge the personality, or it can lead to a distillation of the same..."

    FEATURED NOTEBOOK


    Poems with Horses
    Selected by Jenny Bame

    Here is a collection of equine-related poetry put together to highlight these great animals and some of the many great works written about them—including poems by Linda Gregg, Eugenio Montale, Carolyn Forché, James Wright, and more. Read more >
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