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Paul Monette's AIDS Poetry

Turning to The Iliad to survive a great loss
Ellis Jaewon Yeo
Photo of Paul Monette by Robert Giard.
Letters

Merrill's Last Letters

Writing to the end
James Merrill
Poem of the Week

Flies

Maureen N. McLane
Pandemic Files

The Children Know

When my father died of AIDS, he couldn’t shield me from his pain
Emily Ziff Griffin
From the Archives

To a Friend in Time of Trouble

Thom Gunn
Release of pink and white balloons.
Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber

The original Bambi recharges our perception of the violence and vitality of the natural world.

Charlie Tyson The Darker Side of Bambi

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Essays

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance
Namwali Serpell
The activist Gloria Richardson walking past National Guardsmen during a civil rights march in Cambridge
Conversations

Natalie Scenters-Zapico and Dana Levin

Two poets on writing and anxiety
Natalie Scenters-Zapico,
Dana Levin
Conversations

Longer Than the Longest Rope

A conversation mediated by art
Canisia Lubrin,
Dionne Brand

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From the Archives

From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
From the Archives

From “Siberia” to Siberia

Why Russia is not like Europe's "little countries"
Vivian Gornick
Essays

100 Things About Writing a Novel

What to do—and when to do it
Alexander Chee
A typewriter. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22017189@N00/2621358221
John Ashbery, Icarus, collage, 2010. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
From the Archives

A Call for Papers

John Ashbery
Graphic with pudding. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
From the Archives

Cantilever

John Ashbery

Dictee at Forty: A Folio

Folio

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
Folio

Space to Grieve

An irreducible legacy
Latipa
Folio

The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
Folio

Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf
Folio

Reclaiming Our Language

Dictee as a feminist ritual
Zahra Patterson
Poetry

Poppy

Tomaž Šalamun
Poetry

Fade In

Cathy Linh Che
Poetry

Gomorrah

Julien Gracq
Poetry

The Posthumous Life of Childhood

Peter Gizzi
Poetry

Findspot Unknown

Peter Gizzi
Fiction

Regular Visitors

Monica Ferrell
Fiction

Pirates

Kristen Arnett
Poetry

SKELETON

Deborah Landau