In an intimate interview, the prolific American poet discusses process, politics, and his acclaimed new collection, Beautiful Country.

Robert Wrigley Next door the old pipe organ no longer wheezes. Here, the new one’s electric and hums. Here, too, upholstered pews, a last-twice-as-long-as-Jesus miracle fabric called Herculon over foam the bums of bums will appreciate. And me, sixteen, sneaking out, faking a coughing spell and bound for the old church next door, alone, but only for a while, I hope. The girl I’m meeting there is named Babette, known as Butch. Every...

The poems in Barbara Ras’s new book, The Last Skin are as fluid and graceful as those in her previous two collections: Bite Every Sorrow and One Hidden Stuff. The Last Skin is an extension of the metaphysics laid out in those first two books, and Ras’ poetic stance is that...

The UK branch of Dorling Kindersley (DK), an international publishing company and daughter company of Penguin Group prepared this clever palindromic video concerning the state of...