Zbigniew Herbert
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Ancient Voices, Language, Cats: Talking with Kaveh Akbar about Pilgrim Bell
To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat…
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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Arriving at the Mystery: A Conversation with Oliver de la Paz
Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.
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More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
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Art as Moral Privilege
For the New York Times Bookends column, Rivka Galchen walks us through a deceptively simple poem by Zbigniew Herbert to illustrate a philosophy that supports both the abstract and the moral responsibility of art. She posits that “there is a way in…