OLM Favorites: Aid in the Labyrinth
/Randall Jarrell was suspicious of attempts to turn criticism into a science: he wrote as a reader, for other readers, with the work itself foremost in his mind.
Read MoreGrudge Sliver
/In Alice Fulton's new book Barely Composed, her poems flash across the whole of the language, whip it into a froth, playfully distort it, and sometimes bypass it altogether. Open Letters' Poetry Editor reads along.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2014
/Our unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreAn Interview with Katy Bohinc
/Maureen Thorson interviews Katy Bohinc, poet and author of Dear Alain.
Read MoreI Think We’re Alone Now
/Two poetry volumes - one concerned with how to be ourselves, alone, inside, the other concerned with making multifacted connections with external reality - are reviewed in a gentle dialogue with each other.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers
/The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 12 Hot Summer Reads
/It's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreTempus Fugit
/Maxine Kumin, friend of Anne Sexton, master of poetic form and meter, died just before her eighteenth book was published. Maureen Thorson dives into her allusive, welcoming last poems.
Read MoreTell Me Something I Don’t Know
/Two new books of poetry take different approaches to the written word and its conundrums. Can words express the truth, or are we asking too much of them?
Read MoreTitle Menu: Twoo Wuv
/February would be unremittingly bleak if it weren't for the excuse it gives us to ponder the meaning of love, that many-splendored thing. Our editors offer up their favorite literary treatments.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2013 Continues
/More of our annual retrospective, in which the Open Letters team looks back on the highlights of our 2013 reading.
Read MoreConnect the Dots
/What kind of reader would she be, our Poetry Editor asks, if she didn't allow herself to be susceptible to Ange Mlinko's sublime, piercing unreason?
Read MoreAugust 2013 Issue
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Read MoreSummer Reading 2013
/In our annual feature, the Open Letters team offers suggestions for summer reading that take you off the beaten path of blockbusters and beach novels.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2013 continues
/In part two of our seasonal feature the Open Letters staff recommends another trove of unconventional books – and a few old favorites, too.
Read MoreJuly 2013 Issue
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Read MoreFrom the Archives: Summer Reading 2012 Continues
/Our feature continues, as more Open Letters folk share their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2012
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2012 Continues
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreSongs of Experience
/Sufi mystics, barbaric yawps, and the comedy of the sexes are what's inside Anthony Madrid's new collection of ghazals. What does our poetry editor make of this puzzling Persian pattern?
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