THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY prides itself on its history of bringing new literary talents to light--new authors featured in our pages just in ... enclosing several poems. Thus began a correspondence ...

NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems ...

The image below is a page from PJ Harvey’s Kosovan notebook, written in her own hand. It is the material that inspired the song Chain of Keys on The Hope Six Demolition Project and the poem ...