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October 17, 2014
William Giraldi
Edgar Allan Poe Was a Vampire
That’s what you love about him: his creepiness, his otherness, his charismatic diabolism
October 14, 2014
e e cummings
e e cummings Tries to Answer the Question "Who Am I?" in This Delightful Lecture
September 19, 2014
Ariel Dorfman
What Robert Burns Would Have Made of Scottish Independence
Robert Burns helped to forge a pride of place that has become a reservoir of national identity
September 17, 2014
Elizabeth Macklin
Remembering the Ceasefire
August 8, 2014
Rowan Williams
Dylan Thomas Is The Quintessential Poet for Adolescence
But that's not all he was
August 1, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'I Dreamed of a Sudden Death!': Passages from Siegfried Sassoon's Diaries
The haunting private thoughts of one of the twentieth century's best known English soldiers and poets
July 3, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Joshua Mehigan’s 'Accepting the Disaster' is The Real Thing
June 15, 2014
Jeffrey Harrison
Father’s Day
June 14, 2014
Adam Plunkett
Robert Frost Was Neither Light Nor Dark
He's worth reading because we're both
June 12, 2014
Charles Wright
Today and Yesterday
June 10, 2014
Adam Kirsch
A British TV Celebrity Called for a "Poetry Inquisition." He's Right.
How to make poetry relevant again
May 28, 2014
Andrew Donovan
Ithaca (No Suitors)
May 26, 2014
Andrew Saviano
Night Time
April 6, 2014
Adam Thirlwell
The Greatest Ex-Nazi Writer
Never heard of Gottfried Benn? It's because of his politics
March 29, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
The Prophet in the Library
The previously undiscovered speech that launched Leonard Cohen's career
March 1, 2014
Germaine Greer
'The Poetry of Sex' Isn't Actually About Sex
February 21, 2014
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Boys
February 11, 2014
William H. Pritchard
Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?
February 7, 2014
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin: 'History Lesson' and 'Saying Goodbye'
December 31, 2013
Alice Robb
The Best New Year's Drinking Advice Comes from Dionysus
The Greek god of wine says quit after three drinks

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