Commentary on why poetry matters.
"The Word Sonnet: A Distillation" (2021)
"No One Gets Sylvia Plath" by Emily Van Duyne (2020)
"Super-Close Reading: On Marjorie Perloff’s Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics" by Tal Goldfajn (2022)
Read in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight" by Elisa Gabbert (2022)
"The Job of a Poet Is to Witness" by Saeed Jones (2021)
"'Why try / to revive the lyric': Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss" by Patrick Flanery (2022)
Read in the Chicago Review of Books.
"Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever" by Rajat Singh (2016)
"3 Contemporary Poets on Identity, Form, and Politics" by Ruben Quesada (2018)
Read in the Chicago Review of Books.
"Literary scholar and poet Lucy Alford on Poetry and Attention" (2015)
Read on the Stanford Humanities Center website.
"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" by Adrienne Rich (1972)
"Poetry Is Not A Luxury" by Audre Lorde (1985)
"The Poetics of Disobedience" by Alice Notley (2010)
"The Places Bodies Can’t Reach" by Mia You (2021)
"'America Is a Myth': A Conversation with Natalie Diaz" by Natasha Hakimi Zapata (2021)
Read in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“The Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture” by Louise Glück (2020)
“Close Readings” by Seamus Perry and Mark Ford (2020)
“Part of Your America” by Kevin Okoth (2020)
“This Is Not an Essay on Poetry of the Past 20 Years” by Maureen N. McLane (2020)
“Poetic Politics” by Nicole Brossard (1990)
“On the Function of the Line” by Denise Levertov (1979)
“Sounding Auden” by Seamus Heaney (1987)
“Instant Poetry: A Sign of Cultural Decline” by David Solway (2020)
“When the Spirit Moves” by Eavan Boland (1944-2020) (1995)
“Why Poetry Is Having a Moment Amid the Global Quarantine” by Keziah Weir (2020)
“That Formal Feeling” by Elisa Gabbert (2018)
“Instagram, PBS, 'The Nation': Poetry Is Everywhere” by Megan Garber (2018)
“How Poetry Came to Matter Again” by Jesse Lichtenstein (2018)
“Poetry Is a Way of Being in the World that Wasn't Made for Us” by Jennifer Bartlett (2018)
“How Poetry Helps Me Fulfill My Hipocratic Oath” by Danny W. Linggonegoro (2018)