Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Letters from Prison

On Nazim Hikmet’s poetry.

  • Ellen Ervin

Guide to the Latin American Boom

The writers engaged in a transfiguration of Latin American reality, from localism to a kind of heightened, imaginative view of what is real.

  • Alexander Coleman

Nabokov’s Pushkin Revisited

One cannot very well be neutral about a writer who so ostentatiously shuns neutrality himself.

  • R. W. Flint

An Interview with Grace Paley

Talking with the writer, teacher, and political activist.

  • Grace Paley
  • Gail Pool
  • Shirley Roses
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