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Ange Mlinko is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her latest poetry collection, Venice, was published in 2022. (February 2024)
Patterns of Uprooting
On opposite sides of the world—Poland and Uruguay—the poets Ida Vitale and Tomasz Różycki share a close attention to their own languages.
Time Without Keys
by Ida Vitale, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Pollack
To the Letter
by Tomasz Różycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal
December 21, 2023 issue
Wonder Cabinets of the Mind
Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk is an encyclopedic poem that captures the immense experience of working, and being, at the Met.
Information Desk: An Epic
by Robyn Schiff
August 17, 2023 issue
The Transplanted Ironist
Iman Mersal’s feminism manifests not as a creed but as a tone, a disposition toward life and love.
The Threshold
by Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell
December 22, 2022 issue
Timeless Correspondences
The great salutary effect of reading H.D.’s novels and memoirs— many brought out late in life or posthumously— is to restore her to her era.
HERmione
by H.D., with an afterword by Francesca Wade
Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.
by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
October 6, 2022 issue
His Nemesis Was Stupidity
Baudelaire thought the scope of his influence would be limited by the perfection of his poetry, which sailed over the heads of the masses.
Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French and edited by Richard Sieburth
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)
by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by Aaron Poochigian, with an introduction by Dana Gioia and an afterword by Daniel Handler
The Salon of 1846
by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by Jonathan Mayne, with an introduction by Michael Fried
April 7, 2022 issue
Bard of New Jersey
There's tremendous showmanship in August Kleinzahler's language, the power to leap from dainty diction to grotesque vocabulary within the space of a single line.
Snow Approaching on the Hudson
by August Kleinzahler
December 2, 2021 issue
Ashbery’s Cliffhangers
John Ashbery's first posthumous collection is a reminder that collage and other formal experiments have always been central to his work.
Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
by John Ashbery, edited by Emily Skillings and with a foreword by Ben Lerner
September 23, 2021 issue
‘And You Give Yourself Away’
Doireann Ní Ghríofa's obsession with the eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chronaill amounts to a search for second sight, a vision to deepen the reality of her own life.
A Ghost in the Throat
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
May 13, 2021 issue
‘The Splendour and the Sting’
The passionate voices and formal experiments of two poets who should no longer be neglected.
Charlotte Mew: Selected Poetry and Prose
edited and with an introduction by Julia Copus
So I Looked Down to Camelot
by Rosamund Stanhope
December 17, 2020 issue
Water Music
Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea
by Alice Oswald
Falling Awake
by Alice Oswald
Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad
by Alice Oswald, with an afterword by Eavan Boland
Weeds and Wild Flowers
by Alice Oswald, with etchings by Jessica Greenman
Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems
by Alice Oswald
July 23, 2020 issue
‘A Walk Through Someone Else’
Feel Free
by Nick Laird
O Positive
by Joe Dunthorne
March 26, 2020 issue
Acts of Extreme Attention
Karen Solie, the consummate poet of the Trans-Canadian Highway, has taken an evolutionary leap with her recent poetry, trading comedy for sublime beauty.
The Caiplie Caves
by Karen Solie
November 21, 2019 issue
‘Resist and Disobey!’
Little Boy
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems
edited by Nancy J. Peters
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2010
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson
September 26, 2019 issue
Holding It Together
Hey, Marfa
by Jeffrey Yang, with paintings and drawings by Rackstraw Downes
Baby, I Don’t Care
by Chelsey Minnis
January 17, 2019 issue
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