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My mamaw used to say, ‘I thought life was just one damned thing after another until I realized it’s the same damned thing ...
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.
My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...
It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...
Mia Goth’s eyes look naked. In every image, no matter how many times this face is reproduced, the vulnerability startles. Doe-eyed, doll-eyed, fair brows, hardly any visible lashes, she is sweetness ...
May 20, 2025 – On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.
Grandpa Eddie The story of Edward the Leopard was a delicate, even ticklish, matter. Edward had once lived a life of leisure, racing through fields (at 160 kmh), savoring coffee and pastries, and ...
Though he is most often associated with New England, Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, taught school like his mother did before him, and ...
Tom Fitzharris and Edward Gorey met one afternoon in 1974 when Fitzharris, long a fan of Gorey’s books and illustrations, bumped into him outside of the Town Hall, the performance space in Midtown ...
What I like about success, Monsieur Sauvage, is the love that goes into it—not so much the surprise or the wonder, and certainly not the admiration. So, being a curiosity was a very tough job for me.
A form of life that keeps itself in relation to a poetic practice, however that might be, is always in the studio, always in its studio. Its —but in what way do that place and practice belong to it?
The one time I met Lauren Oyler in person was in New York in the spring of 2018. I had been closely following her work as a critic and admired her intelligence and fearlessness. That exuberant night, ...