In the new Spring issue of The Paris Review, we published an Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley, conducted by Hannah ...
When I first read these poems and was trying to describe them to a friend, I said they felt cosmic, even though they often ...
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Maureen N. McLane’s ...
As I mentioned, I had the image of the birth of our own children in mind, and I had the same feeling that you do, that so ...
Emma, as I raced to get down what she said , wished that she could have a note taker for all of her soirées. Haydée thought ...
At its heart, this poem describes a compressed moment in time, put into stark relief by her contemplation of the great ...
Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That is Happening, which was ...
My dream was a book that doesn’t exist. It was read aloud to me by a male narrator and illustrated with photo slides. Called August Is Back, it was an autobiography of a glamorous Jewish Italian woman ...
Apocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word. What’s a bit of bragging or slander among friends? But when these tales reach print they become ...