Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

I joined up with a team and still remember our poem: “Three, Related in Neverending Intimacy, Transcendent, YHWH.” I like it as a summary of the mystery. It could be drawn out in this way: The one God ...

In Va’era, God, speaking to Moses from the burning bush, says: “I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but by My name YHWH, I was not known to them” (Exodus 6:3). This is a striking ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...