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Poetry

Lunar Phrases

From references to the moon in poems by Frank Stanford (1948–1978), who was best known for his epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Stanford’s selected…

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A Band of Her Own

Anne Sexton’s lost tapes

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Running in the Muddy Twilight

By Pier Paolo Pasolini, from The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, out this month from University of Chicago Press. Pasolini, a writer and filmmaker, died in 1975. Translated from…

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I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance

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Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon

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Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

Timothy Donnelly on writing challenging verse, the cultural faith bred by 30 Rock, and the poet’s need to reach for the eternities

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February 2010

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