Some 600 years later, Margery Kempe’s disquieting sobs continue to confound and provoke.
Poetry
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A Tango with Intuition and the Unconscious
Alan Gilbert’s poems unpack the quotidian nature of life to depict a trippy, scatological dystopia.
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A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
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Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
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British Poetry’s New Avant-Garde
British poetry is really as energetic and varied as its American counterpart.
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Nathaniel Mackey’s Epic Poem
Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.
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Poetry at the Intersection of Art and Twitter
The poems in Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount convey a sense that the whole truth of reality is tantalizingly just beyond one’s grasp.
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Nathaniel Tarn’s Ode to Romanticism
Tarn’s meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
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Douglas Kearney’s Poetry of Performance
Kearney’s language — exquisitely torqued and modulated, sheering from the formal to the vernacular — reminds us that we are in the hands of a masterful performer.
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Raising Black Boys in a House of Love
in this house black boys blossom
black boys bloom
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Poetry That Targets Compliance as Complicity
Andrew Levy’s poems explore contemporary life with globe-spanning sweep and intensive probing.
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Artists Collectively Write a Poetry Book During the Pandemic
“The Poem is Telling Me I Remember” features collaborative poetry from the Oakland studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities.