Open Door
In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. *** Holly Amos, Associate...
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- Open DoorIn keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two, or more) that brought them joy, or comfort, or pleasure this year. *** Janet Cheung...
- Open DoorBy Jennifer ScappettoneMaps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always sends me to another one, similar...
- Open DoorBy Corinne SegalWhen the earliest cartographers set out to draw the world—seeking a way to understand their place on Earth, and Earth’s place in the universe—they also had to find a...
- Open DoorBy Ryo YamaguchiEarly in the pandemic I made a faulty assumption. If my poet friends could stay safe, I thought, this time would be a boon. We were confronting a great crisis, but many...
- Open DoorBy Megan FernandesI always return to Lisbon. It's October 2021, and I am back in the city for the “Vulnerable Bodies” assembly curated by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan Munuera at the Museum...
- Open DoorBy Layla Benitez-JamesIn the seven years since I graduated from the University of Houston’s creative writing program, I’ve joked that I needed to deprogram with translation before I could write my ...
- Open DoorBy David WooIf finding someone literal-minded is an occasion to celebrate the complexity of one’s own mind, it is also an accusation that can summon the most extreme aspects of ...
- Open DoorIn keeping with our annual tradition, Harriet asked Poetry Foundation staff to share a book (or two) that helped them get through another challenging year. *** Evalena Friedman...
- Open DoorBy Honey CrawfordThe recent release of Fodder, a literary‑sonic collaboration between Douglas Kearney and Val Jeanty, brings the dynamic poet/performer/librettist and the visionary composer of...
- Open DoorBy Dorothea LaskyI. When Diane di Prima left the world of the living this past October, the poetry community seemed to shudder in sadness. When a great poet dies, you feel the weight...
- Open DoorBy Brenda CoultasI first met Lewis in 1994, upstairs in the office of The Poetry Project where I had just started working after finishing my MFA at the Naropa Institute (University)....
- Open DoorBy Karthik PurushothamanThe Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James, 2020) is Kazim Ali’s seventh book of poems. In it, Ali explores the overlapping narratives of the past to consider what “history” really...
- Open DoorBy Lily MeyerClaire Malroux is one of France’s preeminent living poets. Known for blurring the boundaries between past and present and, as she put it to me, between small-h history...
- Open DoorBy M. BunaPerhaps best known for her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, on which the award-winning television series of the same name was based, the Canadian author Margaret Atwood has produced...
- Open DoorBy André Naffis-SahelyTales of exile tend to reveal history’s subtle ironies. While one of my great-great-grandfathers fled Baku in the wake of Stalin’s communist takeover in 1917, relocating...
- Open DoorBy Alexandra TeagueThe only book I have signed by Eavan Boland is The Lost Land, from the first reading of hers I attended, when she came to Florida just after I finished my MFA in 1998. It’s signed...
- Open DoorBy David GrundySean Bonney’s final book was called Our Death, but in this essay I want to emphasize the life his work held, the vitality with which it can still imbue our struggles.
- Open DoorBy Garrett CaplesThere is little in American poetry that anticipates the poems of Samuel Greenberg, and neither the defects of his prosody nor the difficulties he presents to our understanding...
- Open DoorBy Benji Hart
I imagined what it might look like to reject the city of New York’s response to Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s murder by rewriting it.
