In Information Desk, Robyn Schiff recalls the beauty, boredom, and absurdities of working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two new genre-bending books by Terrance Hayes find freedom in individuality.
In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz explores immigration in personal and linguistically patterned lyrics.
The young Polish-language poet Zuzanna Ginczanka was killed in the Holocaust. Two new translations offer different renditions of her startling work.
With Gravity and Center, Henri Cole finds a home in the sonnet’s mix of freedom and constraint.
Megan Fernandes’s I Do Everything I’m Told is a formally promiscuous enactment of distance and desire.
Harry Fainlight was a Beat visionary overshadowed by his famous friends and sidelined by mental illness. His legacy is ripe for reassessment.
C.P. Cavafy was not a poet of his time but the bard of a lost age—or an age still to come.
Mark Hyatt—barely published and dead at 32—was a lost figure of queer British poetry. Two posthumous books revive his startling voice.
A newly reissued memoir by Emily Dickinson’s niece tries to decode the poet’s enduring mystery.