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Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90

Some of the Best Bards Were Women

Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires

Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds

A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse

The Best Poetry of 2023

Read Your Way Through Madrid

Tracy K. Smith Collects Books About the Supernatural

Can a Poem Be Too Short? It Depends on the Poem, and the Reader.

Exit Hector Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the Iliad Anew

Saskia Hamilton Poet Who Edited Another Poets Letters Dies at 56

Read Your Way Around Los Angeles

Page, Stage and Screen: Can You Guess This Award-Winning Poet?

A Poet Whose Tone Was Personal and Whose Vision Was Vast

Read Your Way Through São Paulo

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue. For Poets in Love, Only Couplets Will Do.

As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!

Read Your Way Through Tokyo

A Belarusian Writer Who Calls for Poems Made of Barbed Wire

Courtly Love Can Be Deadly