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Arts in Society

National Poetry Month 2016

A poem a day, every day in April, in honor of National Poetry Month.

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Arts in Society

The Long Distance Between Poems

On joy, pain, and a trick for overcoming writer's block

Jericho Brown

Arts in Society

What Poetry Are We Going to Write

Poems know what we will feel before we do. That’s why we need them.

Louis Bury

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

A Mutant Gene in Language

Poet D. A. Powell on lowercasing "aids" and surviving a plague.

D. A. Powell, Tadeusz Dąbrowski

Arts in Society

Listening Through Time

A new translation of the Aeneid revives its power as a spoken text.

Dale Smith

Arts in Society

What You Put In Your Mouth

A new anthology creates a new canon of innovative Latin@ writing

Rachel Galvin

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

I, Your Perfect Muse

Dawn Lundy Martin discusses the impact of history on the poetic body.

Karen Lepri

Arts in Society

They Want that New New World

M. NourbeSe Philip combs history for the black American experience.

Carina del Valle Schorske

Arts in Society, Race

Identity and the Avant-Garde

In art, formal innovation versus identity politics.

David Micah Greenberg

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Spectacle of Transformation

The literal and metaphorical shapeshifting of the female body.

Marcela Sulak

Arts in Society

The Volatile I

Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry finally gets the English translation it deserves.

Johannes Göransson

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won't Forget Twice

The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.

Terese Svoboda

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