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National Poetry Month

Robert Frost at Midlife

In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form
Kamran Javadizadeh

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work
Aria Aber

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole

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The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

The storm arrived like a hand brushing over the world, wiping it out.

Jen Silverman Antarctica

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Spring 2026

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I’ve always been a sucker for books and movies in which people are main characters in one part and side characters in another, in which people are connected in loose but powerful ways.

Emma Copley Eisenberg Behind the Story

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A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right
Dana Stevens

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber

To inhabit an altered, fractured, and mystical space on a sentence level requires a kind of playfulness, and a willingness to acknowledge the unsayable.

Aria Aber Behind the Essay

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Suddenly

Jorie Graham

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin

Virginia Woolf In The Yale Review

Ten pieces from one of the twentieth century's greatest minds