The Library of America completes John McPhee’s canonization as this country’s most important nature writer.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers?

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

More than ever, we live in Chris Kraus’s world, even as we feel it exhausting itself.

Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.

September 10, 2025 – “Regional theater, man.”

David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero’s new collection “Stay Dead.”

By looking at his early work, we can better understand who the German writer was beyond his persona as the melancholy intellectual and serious man of letters.

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The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.

A poem by David Schurman Wallace: “I don’t remember what / we learned in school: to weave / a net was not in our lesson plan”

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life.

Real-world ecoterrorists are outnumbered by their representations in fiction and film. Why does reality lag behind the image?