He was hardly the only famous poet of his blazing, far-flung generation. But he was the one most dogged by disputes over the nature and authenticity of his talent. Even among admirers, there was ample ...

Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

“No one has yet to begin a life who will not end it,” Mary Ruefle writes in “On Beginnings,” the first piece in her collected lectures, “Madness, Rack, and Honey.” It’s more of a lecture on endings, ...

Vanessa Fortin Laundry of Legends II is part of a series of performances that begin with death poems. These particular texts become oracle making, death fuelled time-machines when they are transformed ...

Poetry is the meeting point of parallel lines—in infinity, but also in the here and now. It is where the patent and incontrovertible intersects with the ineffable and incommensurable. It can be as ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...