In the new issue of The Manhattan Review, I look at Rebecca Perry's debut collection,...

On the first of June 1905, Paris was recovering from the previous day’s bombing, an...

Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? A new film by...

Why listen to a pop song in a language you don't know? For the same reasons you might...

Rainer Maria Rilke may be one of the twentieth-century writers least likely to appear...

He stands at the mouth of the empty alley./The wind makes a nest of his hair;/the cold...

Can Ludwig Uhland's love letter to the season still move us on the first day of...

Who was Sergei Yesenin, the only Russian poet whose popularity rivals Pushkin's?...

Are the best poets good listeners? It seems so. Think of T.S. Eliot in 1920s London and...

I started reading Redgrove more than 30 years ago, after seeing a review in a British...

Pollard has blown the dust off Ovid’s Heroides and given us a crisp, contemporary...

The ochre of the island on his charts/mingles with his wife's yellow hair;/neither...

Where do you go for poetry on the web? While there are hundreds of poetry websites,...

For World Poetry Day, here's a tribute to poetry by the Andalusian poet Juan Ramon...

When I started reading Dylan Thomas, the only real poetry I knew was Shakespeare's....

"The poem has been soaking in my mind for at least eight years," Elgar told a...

Imagine if Hamlet began with the Prince alone on stage, delivering the lines, "To...

Pyramid at Canada de la Virgen, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico; February...

Church of San Antonio, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico - February 2015....

The River Mosel from the Hotel Lipmann, Beilstein, Germany - August 2014. Photograph by...

Fireworks in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico - Summer 2013. Photograph by...

Columbia University campus; Winter 2014. Photograph by Frank Beck. All rights reserved.