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Walt Whitman’s Boys

On the poet’s bicentennial, we will see praise for his political idealism and gauzy reclamations of him as an LGBT ancestor. But it remains difficult to talk about the connection he saw between patriotism and his love of young men.

Jeremy Lybarger

Literature & Culture

Looking for Solidarity

The work of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud recalls a time when the two sides of the Caribbean island were united by their visions for an equal society.

Sophie Maríñez

Literature & Culture

Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project

A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.

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Literature & Culture, Reading Lists

Writing the Twentieth Century

Poets, philosophers, playwrights. 

Rosie Gillies

Poetry

What Nature Online

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

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Poetry

Should We Talk About the Weather?

A foray into four famous poems.

Tim Wood

Poetry

The Unconscious of Earth

Brenda Hillman paves the way for an ecological occult.

Elizabeth Metzger

Poetry

Apocalypse

On Frederick Turner’s epics.

Robert Crossley

Poetry

Blockadia

Once in Blockadia Stephen Collis Talon Books, $18.95 (paper)  In the middle of Once in

Cassandra Cleghorn

Poetry

Dispatch from the Land of Erasure (I)

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Philip Metres

Poetry

A Real American

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Farid Matuk

Poetry

Cartographies of Wind

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

George Abraham

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