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  • Article
    By Daegan Miller

    Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Hannah Arendt facing the camera while holding a lit cigarette.
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff in the words of people who loved them.
  • Poem
    By Allison Swenson
    I remember first hearing rumors
    of the atom. We are all made up
    of crumbs, Q told me
    when we were kids.…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower
    and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
    enough…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Caleb Femi on parties, golden pavements, and the downside of self-awareness. 
  • Poem
    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Article
    By Jackson Davidow

    Fifty years after it was published, Elsa’s Housebook remains an intimate photographic document of the literary avant-garde.

    A black-and-white self-portrait of Elsa Dorfman sitting on a couch.
  • Poem
    By Nick Makoha
    SAMO© first appears as a tag on a New York
    City wall in 1978 two blocks down from Aswad
    bookstore…
  • Poem
    By Richard Blanco
    After my third shot of tequila / chased by a lime
    sour as my rant: fuck this-fuck that-fuck them-fuck…
  • Poem
    By Nick Makoha
    i. samo© as an alternative to blah ... blahblahblah. blahzooey ... bblahblah quasi-blah ... etc.

    (in…
  • Poem
    By Douglas Kearney
    Was Him, once fini, on the beams,
    prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
    Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
    dole …
  • Poem
    By Major Jackson
    The screen's fabrications remain. A film
    shot never fails, sailing through the century
    like a black V …
  • Poem
    By Jean Valentine
    He was shoveling sand
    at the edge of the water, his heavy black glasses
    glittered with rain: 
    "Don't you…
  • Poem
    By Langston Hughes
    The Roosevelt, Renaissance, Gem, Alhambra:
    Harlem laughing in all the wrong places
      at the crocodile …
  • Poem
    By Louise Erdrich
    August and the drive-in picture is packed.
    We lounge on the hood of the Pontiac
    surrounded by the slow…
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