IN CONVERSATION
Rosie Stockton and Rachel Kushner on Pump Jacks, Death Drives, and the Uses of Metaphor
May 13, 2025
“It’s a book of climate catastrophe,” the poet says of “Fuel,” her latest collection now out with Nightboat Books. “It strives to reckon with despair on multiple scales.”
POETRY
Poet Ariana Reines Isn’t Afraid of Saying the Wrong Thing
October 21, 2024
To mark the publication of her latest book, “Wave of Blood,” the poet talked to us about Gaza, insanity, and the process of stitching together a genre-resistant text.
TOUR DIARY
“I Just Got a Baby Cow”: On the Road With the Indie Rockers of Dehd
May 28, 2024
Emily Kempf and Jason Balla of the Chicago-born indie rock band checked in halfway through their US tour to tell us some of their strangest experiences on the road.
LIT
Ashleah Gonzales Made Kendall Jenner a Literary It-Girl. Now, She’s a Published Poet.
May 22, 2024
Kendall Jenner’s modeling agent started a tradition of gifting her client a new book every year. This week, she released her debut poetry collection, “Fake Piñata.”
POET
Riley Mac and Coco Gordon Moore on Poetry, Nose Drugs, and Nostalgia
April 17, 2024
“I wrote pretty much all these poems in active addiction,” the writer says of “In My Car,” her new chapbook. “There’s moments of me trying to grasp for clarity.”
LIT
Nora Treatbaby Can Make Your Poetry Readings a Little Less Boring
March 15, 2024
“I feel like transness is inherently ridiculous,” says the New York-based poet, whose debut collection “Our Air” blends sincerity, despair, and revolutionary politics.
POET
“I Always Wanted to Be a Witness”: Dwayne Betts on House of Unending
September 14, 2023
“It fucked with me that we’re often entranced by ruin, but not enough to imagine doing something for the people that we are watching.”
Poetry
Anne Carson Punches a Hole Through Greek Myth
December 16, 2021
The Canadian poet sits down for a conversation with the British artist Tacita Dean about the challenges and rewards of revealing oneself through words.
who is this
Meet Filippo Scotti, the Beguiling Star of The Hand of God
December 8, 2021
The Italian actor was 13 when he first encountered Paolo Sorrentino’s scintillating drama “The Great Beauty.” Eight years later, he’s the star of his new film.
q&a
Patti Smith Is Always Going to Be a Worker
October 2, 2020
(And a cartoon lover.)
cover
Who is Lana Del Rey?
September 8, 2020
Almost a decade into her career, the answer, as elusive as the artist herself, is beginning to crystalize.
SEX, LIES, AND POETRY
Rachel Rabbit White, in Her Boudoir
August 13, 2020
The poet and sex worker who wrote “Porn Carnival” catches up with her beau, the formerly-incarcerated writer Nico Walker. The conversations are nothing short of intimate.
Calm in a Crisis: Mark Doty Reads From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
April 28, 2020
Watch one great American bard channel another.
Ellen Burstyn Talks to Alex Wolff on Life, Death, and the Poetry of It All
February 4, 2020
Wolff is 22 years old, Burstyn 87 years young, and the two have found themselves to be kindred spirits.
Tommy Pico’s Poetry Fuses Sex, Climate Collapse, and R&B
November 4, 2019
But through it all runs a stubborn ribbon of hope.
Jimmy Page and Scarlett Sabet Are the Music-Poetry Power Couple the World Didn’t Know It Needed
October 10, 2019
With Sabet’s debut spoken word album “Catalyst,” produced by Page, the couple talks how they met, meeting Lou Reed, and paying to produce your own work.
Saeed Jones’s Bracing New Memoir Is No Walk in the Park
October 8, 2019
In his new phenomenal new memoir, the author takes an unflinching look back at his Texas childhood.
A Poem of Existential Dread, by Ariana Grande
December 4, 2018
The singer’s recent Twitter musings, assembled into a loosely-formed literary work of remarkable candor.