Articles By RACHEL AVIV

• A Rumi of One’s Own
  What’s lost in translation doesn’t hurt this poet’s popularity.
• Avoid the Personal Like the Plague
  Eleanor Wilner published her first book at age 42, but enough about her.
• “Is it Lesbian enough?”
  This year’s Lambda Literary Award poetry winners are . . .
• Enter Sandman
  Who wrote “Footprints”?
• In Memoriam: Landis Everson, 1926–2007
  Remembering the recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.
• Save the Beatniks!
  At a reading in honor of The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later, protesters from the Underground Literary Alliance make a scene.
• The One and the Many
  How revolutionary was Mao’s poetry?
• To Write About the Button
  The late short-story wizard Grace Paley began and ended her long writing career as a poet.
• Whitman Really Slept Here
  Disciples of Walt want an obscure Brooklyn building to be recognized as an historic landmark.