Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so…
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Efforts are underway to restore the Love Bank museum in Slovakia, which celebrates the “world’s longest love poem” and rents…
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The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color,…
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A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style,…
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After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a…
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The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
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In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch…
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A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in…
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The South Korean writer Hwang In-suk feeds stray cats on late-night walks through Seoul. The routine informs her poems about…
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