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The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer

Gods

Vladimir Nabokov
translated by Dmitri Nabokov

The Mirror

Haruki Murakami
translated by Philip Gabriel

"A magazine is not a static thing or the creation of a single mind: it’s a site of the social and communal practice of thought."

Meghan O'Rourke Resurfacing Gems from The Yale Review's Archives

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Party Fiend

Charles Simic
April 1, 2003

Something Large Is in the Woods

Charles Simic
January 1, 2003

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002

A Last Hayride

James Tate
January 1, 2002

Ghazal

Agha Shahid Ali
July 1, 2000

On Rhyme

Anthony Hecht
April 1, 1999
Odilon Redon, Beatrice, 1897. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam..

The Burning Heart

Louise Glück
January 1, 1999

A Fall

Anthony Hecht
July 1, 1998

Look Deep

Anthony Hecht
July 1, 1998