Michael Lind, a journalist, poet, and novelist, skewers the current state of American poetry and places the blame squarely at the feet of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and American academics who have warped ...

Thomas Gardner's and Christopher Beach's recent books about contemporary American poetry differ markedly in analytical approach. In Poetic Culture, published in Northwestern University Press's ...

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

Last summer, bleary, disheartened, and often angry from more than two years of seemingly nonstop doomscrolling, I decided it was time for a big change. I needed to switch the channel, stop watching ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

The ways history, identity, and systematic violence shape the American experience continue to be primary themes in contemporary American poetry. The ghosts of America’s past and future, its dreams and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly ...

Founded in 1948, The Hudson Review deals with the area where literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture. The magazine serves as a major forum for ...

Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

Songwriters are often praised with the backhanded comment that their lyrics are so great it means they are not mere songwriters, but poets. As if being a songwriter now, in the 21st century, is a ...

The Louder than a Bomb Festival (above) and Young Chicago Artists have seeded the city with gifted poets. Photo: Young Chicago Artists In some countries, cultural capitals are easy to identify: Paris, ...