Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

On Mark Strand (1934–2014)

On Mark Strand (1934–2014)

Mark Strand was a gentle poet; his opening lines invite you in until you gradually realize how many fathoms are there underneath, how far you are from any shore.

January 8, 2015 issue

With a View of the Sea

a poem

April 25, 2013 issue

January 1, 1965

January 1, 1965

a poem

January 20, 2000 issue

Cabbage and Carrot

July 11, 1996 issue

At the City Dump in Nantucket

April 4, 1996 issue

The Russian Academy: Preliminary Notes

March 21, 1996 issue

Letter

Alexander Schouvaloff

Russian Academy in Rome

April 10, 1997 issue

Via Funari

February 1, 1996 issue

Kolo

July 13, 1995 issue

Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

June 8, 1995 issue

Infinitive

July 14, 1994 issue

‘The Post-Communist Nightmare’: An Exchange

February 17, 1994 issue

Achilles. Penthesilea

October 21, 1993 issue

Daedalus in Sicily

October 7, 1993 issue

In the Light of Venice

June 11, 1992 issue

Help Salman Rushdie!

April 12, 1990 issue

Isaiah Berlin at Eighty

August 17, 1989 issue

Exeter Revisited

September 29, 1988 issue

From the Akkadian

March 17, 1988 issue

Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

February 18, 1988 issue

The Condition We Call Exile

January 21, 1988 issue

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