Poetry in Person, edited by Alexander Neubauer, is a rich book of conversations between Pearl London, the legendary New School teacher, and the many important American poets she brought into her classroom to share their poems in progress. Lucille Clifton, who passed away in February of this year, visited London’s classroom on May 3, 1983.
More >Give the poetry lover in your life the gift of verse. Presenting: our holiday checklist.
More >Au revoir from the Knopf poetry team. We hope to see you next April.
More >Knopf’s poetry month closes with the last two “fourteeners” written by John Updike. This pair comes at the end of the autobiographical title sequence around which Endpoint, his final collection, is built.
More >Jack Gilbert, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his last book, Refusing Heaven, is now in his mid-eighties, still celebrating and sorrowing to the fullest.
More >A poem from the 1999 volume Black Wings & Blind Angels, by Sapphire, who is also a novelist.
More >This poem by Anne Michaels, written more than a decade ago, anticipates some of the themes of her new novel The Winter Vault, a passionate love story which juxtaposes historic events—the building of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam—with intimate moments in the lives of the characters, whose paths are altered in the course of their involvement with these ambitious constructions.
More >“Some Playthings,” by the distinguished John Hollander, a poet for whom serious and light verse, the formal and the playful, flow forth in equal measure.
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