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  • Ron Horning on W. H. Auden in “The Brooklyn Rail”

    May 19, 2022

    The first question anyone interested in W. H. Auden’s poetry is likely to ask about the sumptuous new edition of the poems is, “What will I learn from these 2,000 pages that I don’t…

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  • “In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton” (Nightboat Books) [by David Lehman]

    May 19, 2022

    We welcome the publication of In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, a posthumous collection by a wonderful poet who died in 1994, entirely too young. The publisher is Nightboat Books,…

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  • Marie-Thérèse Allier’s Ménagerie de Verre: forty years enabling dance otherwise [by Tracy Danison]

    May 18, 2022

    Raimund Hoghe’s creative search for “otherwise” is emblematic of Marie-Thérèse Allier’s contribution to the art of movement. Raimund Hoghe, “La Valse”. Photo © Rosa-Frank.com/ Courtesy Ménagerie de Verre La Ménagerie de Verre performance studio,…

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  • Alexey Tsvetkov: In Memoriam [by Andrey Gritsman]

    May 18, 2022

    “I am here together with myself and alone” The great Russian poet Alexey Tsvetkov just passed away (February 1947- May 12, 2022). He is a world-class poet, a world poet who happened to write…

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  • “The Ambition” by Robert Harris [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    May 18, 2022

    Robert Harris died too young at the age of forty-two. During his lifetime he was never a major figure in Australian poetry, however, a recent publication of his selected poems, The Gang of One, has…

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  • Editor Spotlight: Hasanthika Sirisena [by Kristina Marie Darling]

    May 18, 2022

    Hasanthika Sirisena work has been anthologized in This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017), in Every Day People: The Color of Life(Atria Books, 2018), and twice named a notable story by Best American Short…

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