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Allyson Paty
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Our Most-Read Poems of 2021

Essays

My Mother and The Exorcist

How the scariest movie ever reconciled me to loss
Marlena Williams
Essays

On Going Outside

What Edgar Allan Poe taught me about life post-lockdown
Emily Ogden
Graphic with open door and sheer curtains by Tung Chau.

"We were an earlier people attuned to cyclical time: a merry folk revolving around its maypole."

Jason Guriel on the forgotten pleasures of analog media

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From Our Winter Issue

Conversations

Is Poetry the Genre of Anxiety?

Natalie Scenters-Zapico,
Dana Levin
Fiction

small life

Dionne Brand
Fiction

Lili Is Crying

Kate Briggs,
Hélène Bessette
Fiction

People in the Grasses

Renee Gladman
Conversations

Longer Than the Longest Rope

A conversation mediated by art
Canisia Lubrin,
Dionne Brand
Conversations

Renee Gladman and Kate Briggs Talk Translation and Form

Kate Briggs,
Renee Gladman
Portfolio

Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh
Portfolio

The Cultural Construction of Identity

The knotty interrelations between text and image
Lorraine O’Grady
Portfolio

Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian
Portfolio

A Photographer Reimagines the Northern Lights

Maria Lax
Maria Lax gas station amid trees photo
Maria Lax green light in trees photo
Maria Lax trees negative image
Essays

The Hauntologies of Slavery

Finding history and meaning on a journey across the sea
Jonah Mixon-Webster
Pillars at National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama
Essays

The Ugly Side of Sisterhood

On envy and twinship
Jean Garnett
The author with her sister in childhood.
Essays

The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human
Melissa Febos
A woman at the beach with a watermelon

Windham-Campbell Writers Reflect on George Eliot

Books

The Dolphin Letters

Revisiting Robert Lowell’s infamous book
Dan Chiasson
Essays

Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong
Jess Row
Essays

What Space is For

The forking paths of memory and return
Mairead Small Staid
Poetry

Patronage

Solmaz Sharif
Shadowy white figure on a black ground. Detail from Jose Chavvary / Creative Commons.
Poetry

Cherry Picking Season

Sally Wen Mao
Cherries. Photo: Kristiane Wentzel.
Poetry

Fullness and Hunger

Natasha Rao
hand holding a cricket mallet. Photo: Yogendra Singh.

The Enduring Legacy of John Ashbery

Essays

The Brink of Destruction

Revisiting John Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended”
Edward Hirsch
Two cartoon characters superimposed onto painting of a storm.

From Our Archives

From the Archives

New Constructions

John Ashbery
From the Archives

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
Poetry

My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
Books

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery

Sam Huber
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From the Archives

A Call for Papers

John Ashbery
John Ashbery, Icarus, collage, 2010. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.