Poetry
-
Politics
Mary Oliver’s Deep, Direct Love for the World
“The utmost of ambition,” Robert Frost once wrote, “is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to…
Read More » -
Politics
Our Year in Poems | The New Yorker
In addition to the hundred-or-so poems that The New Yorker publishes both in print and on the Web each year,…
Read More » -
News
Meet Porsha Olayiwola, Boston’s new poet laureate
Boston’s new poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola, is ready to push the limits of the art through the poetry community and…
Read More » -
Politics
Deborah Landau Reads Anne Sexton
Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton’s poem “Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” and…
Read More » -
Politics
Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity
Before Donald Hall turned eighty, his writing life, and his life itself, began to founder. After he was named the…
Read More » -
Politics
Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt
Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poem “Groundhog” and his own poem “What Use…
Read More »