Category: Poetry

Earlier this month, we published excerpts from William Logan’s Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue. Readers of Logan’s criticism, which appears in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, can attest to the fact that...

It has almost become of a rite of Spring for publishers to trot out their books of poetry in April for National Poetry Month. Admittedly, we do the same (though we do talk about poetry in other months). We begin...

Beacon Press’s very interesting blog the Beacon Broadside recently featured Stephen Burt’s excellent post on gay and lesbian poetry. In the piece, Burt provides a concise and thoughtful history of gay and lesbian poetry and depictions of same-sex erotic passion...