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Commentary |January 6, 2026

on The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue & Matthew Hollis

reviewed by Christian Detisch

“From the first, his poems dug down into memory to find their source. Or, more precisely, the excavation of memory — both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it — is his subject.”
Poetry |January 6, 2026

“Outcast” & “Kenosha”

two poems by Thea Matthews

“Not everyone has money / to repair damage from evil. / My job here is to protect / the people and their businesses. / Dad lives here. / Mom drove me here.”
Poetry |January 6, 2026

“Who’s There?” “At Speed” & “Stray”

three poems by Rae Armantrout

“I was surprised when the figure I had taken for a statue or a standing stone opened its arms to receive the woman running from a nearby door and became a man.”
Commentary |January 6, 2026

on Transit, poems by David Baker

reviewed by Michael Collins

“So many varieties of transit take place, between modes of consciousness, different forms and self-states of writing and reading, awareness of experience, mortality, and textual legacy.”

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Survey |May 14, 2025

“What Will You Read This Summer?”

twelve friends (& family members) tell us what's on their reading list

Choices by Darrell Byers, Molly Coogan, Christoph Irmscher, James Jennings, Tess Lewis, Norman Lock, Esteban Rodríguez, Elaine Sexton, Ben Shattuck, Jenny Slate, Alina Stefanescu, Heather Treseler and Leah Umansky