September 8, 2016 From the Archive Good to Go By Cassandra Cleghorn Cassandra Cleghorn’s poem “Good to Go” appeared in our Winter 2000 issue. Her collection Four Weathercocks was published in April. Read More
August 31, 2016 From the Archive The Book of Sediments By Madeline DeFrees Madeline DeFrees’s poem “The Book of Sediments” appeared in our Fall 1983 issue. Her last collection, Spectral Waves, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2006; DeFrees passed away last year. Read More
August 25, 2016 From the Archive The Mutes By Denise Levertov Louis-Emile Adan, The Suitor, oil on canvas. Denise Levertov’s poem “The Mutes” appeared in our Winter 1965 issue. Levertov was born in Britain but immigrated to the United States when she was twenty-five; she died in 1997. Read More
August 18, 2016 From the Archive First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy By Judy Longley Judy Longley’s poem “First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy” appeared in our Summer 1998 issue. Her collection My Journey Toward You was the 1993 winner of the Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry. Read More
August 11, 2016 From the Archive Classified Ad By Kate Ellen Braverman Kate Ellen Braverman’s poem “Classified Ad” appeared in our Winter 1975 issue. Read More
August 4, 2016 From the Archive Secrets of the Trade By Anna Akhmatova Károly Ferenczy, The Woman Painter, 1903, oil on canvas, 53.5″ x 51″. Anna Akhmatova’s poem “Secrets of the Trade,” translated by Jo Ann Clark with Zhenya Zafrin, appeared in our Winter 1996 issue. Akhmatova died in 1966; our columnist Anthony Madrid recently wrote about an epigram of hers. Read More