Poetry

May–June/14

An excerpt from Maureen McLane’s This Blue.

May–June/14

Poet, critic, and scholar Maureen McLane ­argues for poetry that synthesizes, “with passion and knowledge,” what it means to be human.

Oct/52

Of sturdy stuff are poets made, or else they’d never make the grade.

Mar–Apr/14

Going to the Law School helped Natalie Shapero, JD’11, let her poetry loose.

02.07.2014

Poet Campbell McGrath, AB’84, explains how writers are like baseball players, what’s wrong with novels, and why he was banned from several frats in the mid-’80s.

02.03.2014

Poet Dorothea Lasky leaves her audience awestruck.

09.03.2013

Rosanna Warren shares her recommendations for a cruel summer.

Sept–Oct/12
In the summer of 1912 Poetry magazine, then a newborn upstart, asked writers to send their “best verse.”
Sept–Oct/12

How Homer’s ancient epic presaged the poetry slam.

06.18.12

As Poetry turns 100, a look back at the back-and-forth between Harriet Monroe and her readers.

Mar–Apr/12

Does Donne dramatize religious incoherence or lapse into it?