Poems & Essays

Reading in the Dark

Poets reflect on the poems they return to in difficult times.

Pedro Serrano on Francisco de Quevedo’s “La Torre”

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Dean Rader on Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World Ends Here”

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Sophie Cabot Black on Mark Strand’s “Black Sea”

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Kazim Ali on Rick Barot’s “A Poem as Long as California”

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Matthew Zapruder on Nazim Hikmet’s “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved”

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Tina Chang on Eileen Myles’ “Notebook, 1981”

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Peter Balakian on Robert Pinsky’s “Samurai Song”

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Mark Wunderlich on Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The First Elegy”

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Tess Taylor on Gwendolyn Brooks’ “my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell”

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