University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What is a society without its poets? If all poetry disappeared from our libraries and shelves and virtual ...
“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...
in Poe’s “system” of Tarr and Fethering (fathering). The kind of poetry I want gums up the works. A tangle of truths. From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and ...
As we celebrated 200 years of Indian poetry in English last year, and a much longer tradition of poetry in translation — it isn’t surprising that it has been raining anthologies. Gulzar’s mammoth ...
“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...
How can cinema be poetic? For video essayist Tony Zhou, it’s when he can “ignore the plot and just appreciate the picture and sound doing something unique.” That’s how he opens his latest episode of ...