How Stéphane Mallarmé's greatest work was forged from tragedy.

On the pleasures of poetry that deliberately defies our comprehension.

An interview with the poet Max Ritvo about illness, improvisation, and his first book, published posthumously next week.

When Crosby was paralyzed by an accident, both she and her friend Maggie Nelson reckoned with it in their writing.

For Ben Lerner, poems are the perfect medium for failure. So how can they negotiate with the politics of real life?

A poem

A poem

A poem

A poem

Calvin Trillin's "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?" is the latest in a long artistic tradition.

A poem

A poem.

A poem