Poetry

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Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing
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Rights

Cindy Juyoung Ok
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Fady Joudah
Poetry

Two Days Twelve Thousand Years Ago

Brian Blanchfield
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson

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Rachel

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
From the Archives

September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
Theo Colenbrander, Flower Market, 1917. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Poetry

Vespers

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
Merrill with Mask of Keats and Head of Hermes. Courtesy Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections.
Poetry

To the Reader

James Merrill
November 1, 1990
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Aubade

Tom Sleigh
July 1, 1989
From the Archives

Fiction

Mark Strand
July 1, 1989
View of the Tiber River at Sunset. Stefano Avolio / Creative Commons.
Poetry

Walks in Rome

James Merrill
March 1, 1988
From the Archives

Shéhérazade

Wayne Koestenbaum
December 1, 1987
Vase with anemones, ca. 1907. Rijksmuseum.
Poetry

In Memoriam

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1987
Hilma af klimt, Wheat and wormwood, 1922.
Poetry

Losing a Language

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987