Mild is the parting year, and sweet The odour of the falling spray; Life passes on more rudely fleet, And balmless is its closing day. I wait its close, I court its gloom, But mourn that never must ...

Marge Piercy (b. March 31, 1936) is an American feminist poet and novelist who has written 17 books of poetry, including The Moon Is Always Female (1980), which is considered a feminist classic.

Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected three poems by Amish Trivedi for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers. Dóra Maurer, “Tracing Space I, Tracing Space ...

In this installment of Lyric Nation, Jennifer Moxley reads “The Logic of Survival,” first published in the October 8, 2007 issue of The Nation; “On the Face of It” and “The Quest.” All three poems ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

Gottfried Benn was born in 1886 in the village of Mansfield, between Berlin and Hamburg. He grew up in another village, Sellin in Neumark, in what was then East Prussia, part of present-day Poland. He ...

Imprints or not, blue jays are laurels. Some archives meant for a chasm. The detour is helpless. It seeks delusions. To break bread with bread in springtime’s ragtime. Statistics flow by. Across the ...