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Our toddler invented this spring, and still occasionally uses, the made-up and entirely apropos word "No-yes": he uses it when he's feeling independent, when we ask him whether he...

Debit: As an Accounting major at Temple University, enrolling in an Introduction to Poetry course was an indulgence beyond rationale for many of my friends and family. Credit: Of course I...

I don't think brevity will ever go out of style. June Dangled above the traffic's rasp: a contrail a crow a nail gun's echo. Sappho Hears gossip makes it song it won't be long before everyone hears "June" is by Joseph Massey, from a...

All week I've been teaching Richard Powers' great novel Galatea 2.2, a book about computers and fiction-writing and lovelornness that does as much as almost any prose work ever written...

So many strands/strains of the old country and other people’s cultural traditions inform the arts of the Americas, even if we do not readily acknowledge them. Klezmer, Blue-grass, Deep soul,...

Some of the lively discussion at Harriet has alerted me to the fact that people debate over who gets to be in the church of the Avant Garde—who gets to...

The poems of Elfriede Jelinek published in the November issue of Poetry (translated by Michael Hofmann) are her first to appear in English. But, as Hofmann notes, her literary career...

Javier O. Huerta’s debut, Some Clarifications y otros poemas received the Chicano/ Latino Literary Prize from the University of California at Irvine. I’m not sure it could have been a...

----------- The Writing Machine from The Voyage to Laputa by Jonathan Swift ----------- Poetry written by chance represents a form of automatic scription that displaces the agency of the author onto a system of impersonal,...

Was it really four years ago already that the new edition of The Poems of Marianne Moore was published? I remember standing in a bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with...