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Sara Teasdale in The Yale Review

Publishing a major minor poet

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Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work

Robert Frost at Midlife

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

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The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

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

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical literary experiment

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club

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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