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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem
This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante and eventual editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson: I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none, and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying…
Wendell Berry on Where Our Loved Ones Gone Go
To love is to sign a contract with loss. To love anyway is both the great tragedy and the great triumph of life. When two people have loved one another, each has become embedded in the marrow of the other’s being and both have had a profound experience that cannot be unhad even when the slender…
Edward Lucie-Smith obituary
Art historian, critic and poet who hosted ‘the Group’, a literary workshop of the 1950s and 60s The poet, art critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith, who has died aged 93, was both prolific and polymathic. He wrote almost 100 full-length books, including studies of individual artists and…
The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Universe is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee; Sleep Gate by Sylvia Legris; The Other Love by Henri Cole; Stay Winter by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe The Universe Is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee (Nine Arches, £11.99) In this confident and capacious collection, scientific language commingles with…
The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Universe is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee; Sleep Gate by Sylvia Legris; The Other Love by Henri Cole; Stay Winter by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe The Universe Is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee (Nine Arches, £11.99) In this confident and capacious collection, scientific language commingles with…
Nikita Gill: ‘I read Flowers in the Attic too young. Someone should have stopped me’
The Indian-Irish poet on the Mahabharata retelling that inspired her to write, Arundhati Roy’s courage, and the poetry of Lucille Clifton My earliest reading memory My father was a sailor and my mother a teacher. They were both voracious readers. I was lucky enough to come from a home full of books…
Hanif Abdurraqib on the Lessons of June Jordan
Every year, starting in late August, I gather with a new group of high school writers from the Columbus City Schools district in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The group is small but eager, curious, vibrant. There are usually around
“Mirror,” a Poem by Jana Prikryl
I dreamt they took my shoulder, the left one but my arm was still attached, the join a thing I was unable I only knew of it, so mind drew a picture of me in the place reorganized Yet I
Солодощі під знаком танкового шолома
Південна галявина Білого дому сяє помаранчевими вогнями, прикрашена тонами декоративних гарбузів, а над Вашингтоном розноситься урочистий гул — над резиденцією президента США пролітає легендарний літак Air Force One, відкриваючи щорічну традицію Trick-or-Treat («Гаманець або шоколадка»). Навколо…
Хто саме з українських авторів може отримати міжнародну відзнаку?!
Українська література продовжує привертати увагу за межами країни. Цього разу одразу троє українських письменників потрапили до фіналу престижної Літературної премії імені Джозефа Конрада-Коженьовського. Серед фіналістів — ветеран російсько-української війни, воєнний документаліст і письменник, чиї…
Did Mary really have a little lamb? The strange story behind the world-famous nursery rhyme
The lyrics of the popular nursery rhyme are based on a real girl, a real lamb and a real visit to school, but there is some contention over which is the true origin
The Afterlife Is Having a Flea Market
He Comes With a Lynchian Flashlight “We’re like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it’s like a light; it affects the environment.” – David Lynch When the flea market locks its doors on Zion Road,the locals rock on porches wrapped around by moonlight.Straight through midnight he…
Nothing Says Quality Time Like Being Kidnapped by Dad
My Father, My Aerialist “And he forged on the shield . . . wedding feasts . . . and the young men came dancing . . .” – The Iliad What money he made, he hid inside his jacket pocket And came back home to smoke the cheapest weed he found In Lackawanna—he’d leave to buy […] The post Nothing Says…
‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture
He gave Jimi Hendrix his gear, freaked out Frank Sinatra, inspired Norman Mailer – and tried to topple the American war machine. As a documentary about his band the Fugs comes out, the 87-year-old gives a rare interview “Charles Manson once wrote me a letter saying, ‘If I was as powerful as you…
‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture
He gave Jimi Hendrix his gear, freaked out Frank Sinatra, inspired Norman Mailer – and tried to topple the American war machine. As a documentary about his band the Fugs comes out, the 87-year-old gives a rare interview “Charles Manson once wrote me a letter saying, ‘If I was as powerful as you…