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Reappearing Women: A Conversation Between Marie Darrieussecq and Kate Zambreno
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Liegende Mutter mit Kind II (Reclining Mother with Child II), 1906, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 in. × 49 1/10 in. The novelist Marie Darrieussecq’s slim, enigmatic biography of the...
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How A Godless Democrat Fell in Love With Cowboy Poetry
Image altered from: Frederic Remington, The Cowboy. 1902 You might call me smitten by the whole affair. By the cowboys, of course: their hats, their vests, their boots. Their wry smiles and fat...
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Utopia Interrupted: The Uncertain Future of the Mall
Architectural rendering at Monroeville Mall, 2016. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space An attractive young woman with long...
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Staff Picks: Dorothy, Oz, and Arkansas
Anna Kavan If a “beach read” is light and easy reading for the warm summer months, then Anna Kavan’s Ice is its cold-season equivalent, a book to complement the contemplative stillness of winter...
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Muriel Rukeyser, Mother of Everyone
In moments of desperation, a favorite poem has resurfaced lately, sometimes on Twitter and sometimes in memory. Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem,” originally published in The Speed of Darkness fifty years...
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Donald Hall, Foremost God in the Harvard College Pantheon
Donald Hall in Scytheville, New Hampshire. Photo: Henri Cole. Don Hall is dead after a brief struggle with a horrid and untreatable cancer. It was impossible not to wish for his prompt release from...
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Donald Hall, 1928–2018
Donald Hall, who served as The Paris Review’s first poetry editor, died Saturday at the age of eighty-nine. Hall had an enormous influence on American poetry. A prolific writer, he published more...
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Why All the Books About Motherhood?
No one asked, How does one submit to falling forever, to going to pieces. A question from the inside. —Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts I As the summer heats up and my due date approaches, I’ve been...
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The Treasures That Prevail: On the Prose of Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich. Toward the end of “Diving into the Wreck,” one of her most renowned poems, Adrienne Rich explains the goals of her underwater journey: I came to explore the wreck. The words are...
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Poetry Rx: Your Body Will Haunt Mine
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week,...
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