When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice. The cruel euphemism of profit and the genocidal language of extermination meet their answer in Daniel Borzutzky’s “Poem ...

As resolutely canonical as they seem to us now, the “Holy Sonnets” of John Donne (1572–1631) flicker with some uncertainty in the imaginary museum hall of English literature. We think we know them.

Robert Southey (1774–1843) was a minor Romantic poet, a minor author of scribbled translations for money, a minor figure among the great collection of Lake District poets in his time. But he ended up ...

In early January, the poet and soldier Maksym Kryvtsov published a new verse that captured the violence of Russia’s invasion and the cost of Ukraine’s resistance. “My severed arms/Will sprout as ...

I’m intrigued by the tension in Jake Skeet’s poem: Its title juxtaposes love with death, and its rhythms press against the nettle-like images. The first stanza’s images are scarred and rough with ...