This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry work. Something about the procedures of prose, its civilities and solidity, ...

I put a few queries to Sophie Cabot Black, author of this week’s poem “Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center.” I’m fascinated by the way you manage to invoke the infamous Jersey turnpike with ...