I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...

“Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry and the Avant-Garde” — a new exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — consists of poetry expressed through a variety of different media, from ...

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week Jake Marmer writes about “Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture.” Last year’s ...

This essay investigates interactions between poetic form and science-fictional convention in the works of Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, tracing their connections to early-twentieth-century avant-garde ...

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem. By Clay Risen Marjorie Perloff, whose ...

Yale graduate Brittany Menjivar ’21 published her debut poetry and short story collection “Parasocialite” on March 15. The work was featured in Nylon Magazine’s list of “Must-Read Book Releases” for ...

A court in Yekaterinburg has found an anti-war protester guilty of using a poem by avant-garde poet Vladimir Mayakovsky to “discredit” the Russian military, the independent news outlet Sotavision ...

Editors’ Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. I am sick of the term “avant-garde,” a European invention that has been presided over and ...

Andrea Brady receives funding from Arts Council England. She is affiliated with the Globe Road Poetry Festival and Barque Press. Last week, Claudia Rankine’s book, Citizen, won the Forward prize for ...