From the Archives: Summer Reading 2012
/As the haze and heat of summer kick into full swing, the folk of Open Letters break out their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
Read MoreKindling the Mob
/A new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.
Read MoreStashed under a Bush
/a poem
Read MoreSecond Glance: The Secret of Prometheus
/The oldest texts can seem familiar, but they repay attention with strangeness. Robert Minto delves into the religious origins and unresolved mysteries of Prometheus Bound.
Read Morefrom To Duration
/a poem, translated by Scott Abbott
Read MoreEXISTENTIAL REPTILE REVERIE
/a poem
Read MoreBook Review: Waiting for the Past
/The latest volume from deceptively erudite Australian poet Les Murray
Read MoreBook Review: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
/America's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay gets an elegant new Selected Poems volume
Read MoreApril and my Plastic Sunflowers
/a poem
Read MoreInterior, with Music
/The tension between the material and the abstract creates the complex music that threads through Ben Mazer's new volume of poetry, The Glass Piano.
Read MoreBook Review: The Swimmer
/A preoccupation with endings characterizes the tenth collection from poet John Koethe
Read MoreNumber Fifteen
/a poem
Read MoreIndex of First Lines
/a poem
Read MoreDivinity through the Ages
/a poem
Read MorePoetry: February
/a poem
Read MoreA CANDLE IN WALMART
/a poem
Read MoreWatching the Waves Roll In
/Robert Lax was always moving, both poetically and geographically. A new biography tells the story of his uncommon life.
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