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The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment.

A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.

A postapocalyptic landscape and a stark view of the present, hollowed out but for the corporate interests.

Will Alexander’s visionary work achieves its effect through sound, not image.

Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, after nine years.

The poem’s repetitions evoke the grim repetitions of history.

Developing, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness.

Lyn Hejinian’s sonnet proposes that liberation might be found in scattering and disorientation.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.