Harriet

Ask Jen Hofer what she’s working on and the answer will be something like: I’m translating four books, writing a few of my own,...

Notes for national corpse month, continued: Do dreams require belief? A system, like a machine with a dream at one end and belief at the...

In “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” John Keene argues that “we need more translation of literary works by non-Anglophone black diasporic authors into English, particularly...

As it turns out, there’s no way to discuss poetry and money without also talking about work, institutions educational and otherwise, hierarchies of value,...

Tonya Foster takes on the question of form itself in “Touching Authenticities” by deconstructing the essay, which strikes me as a necessary gesture given...

Notes for national corpse month, continued: I keep returning to this moment during the one-year memorial of Michael Brown’s death, August 9, 2015, in Ferguson,...

It strikes me that Eileen Myles is the first person in this series of pieces about money and poetry to name dollar amounts. I...

One of my life-long preoccupations continues to be how to write about loss, how to attend to the thing that is beyond one’s grasp....

Notes for national corpse month, continued: I am thinking about the garden. Youna Kwak imagines it (first). Then she remembers it. Then she is in...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Cecilia Vicuña, at the age of 24, and without even meaning to be, was way ahead of...