Clockwise from top left: Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via Wikimedia Commons. O ...

“Amor vincit omnia,” Love conquers all. Or so Virgil wrote. But does it? Does love survive dissolution of the lovers? And if so, where exactly would it be, where does all that lost love survive? I was ...

Local poet Jeffery Beam’s latest collection, Gospel Earth, carves out a place for itself in the long tradition of nature poetry as a spiritual treatise concerning the natural world. If the earth is a ...

In Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation, Aldon Nielsen suggests that we understand the term “interdiction” as both “a prohibition” as well as—through a creative etymology—a tactic ...

Koch passed away this summer at 77 after a battle with leukemia, having recently produced some of the strongest work of his career: 2000's New Addresses (an NBA finalist). These two volumes-one of new ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...