Close Readings

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")

Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy")

Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley (Waltzing Matilda: "Dec. 12, 1980")

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")

Huda Fakhreddine on Hiba Abu Nada ("Pull Yourself Together")

Emily Wilson on Sappho ("Ode to Aphrodite")

Robert Volpicelli on W. H. Auden ("In Memory of W. B. Yeats")

Margaret Ronda on Walt Whitman ("This Compost")

Michelle A. Taylor on Patricia Lockwood ("The Ode on Grecian Urn")

Sylvie Thode on Tim Dlugos ("The Far West")

Marisa Galvez on William IX ("The Song of Nothing")

Stephanie Burt on Allan Peterson ("I thought all life came from the alphabet")

Paul Fry on William Wordsworth ("A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal")

Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")

Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("Empathy and New Year")

David B. Hobbs on George Oppen ("Ballad")

Jahan Ramazani on Derek Walcott ("A Far Cry from Africa")

Elisa Gabbert on Sylvia Plath ("Lady Lazarus")

Hanif Abdurraqib on Umang Kalra ("Job Security")

Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück ("Brooding Likeness")

Langdon Hammer on Louise Glück ("A Foreshortened Journey")

Elisa Gonzalez on Louise Glück ("A Village Life")

Jeff Dolven on Sir Thomas Wyatt ("They Flee from Me")

Matthew Zapruder on James Tate ("Quabbin Reservoir")

Priscilla Gilman on William Cowper ("The Castaway")

Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work")

Gillian White on Elizabeth Bishop ("Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance")

Walt Hunter on Gwendolyn Brooks ("kitchenette building")

Evan Kindley on Kenneth Koch ("One Train May Hide Another")

Johanna Winant on Emily Dickinson ("My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —")

Dan Chiasson on William Butler Yeats ("Among School Children")

Sarah Osment on David Berman ("Governors on Sominex")

Andrew Epstein on John Ashbery ("Street Musicians")

Harris Feinsod on William Carlos Williams ("To Elsie")

Virginia Jackson on Phillis Wheatley ("To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth")

Willard Spiegelman on Amy Clampitt ("Losing Track of Language")

Oren Izenberg on Allen Grossman ("The Life and Death Kisses")

Maya C. Popa on Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Spring and Fall")

Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson ("Open / Back Up (breadth of field)")

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews on Wallace Stevens ("Man Carrying Thing")

Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("February")

Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy ("The Voice")

Christopher Spaide on Terrance Hayes ("The Golden Shovel")

Sarah Dowling on Liz Howard ("True Value")

Stephanie Burt on Randall Jarrell ("The Player Piano")

Katie Kadue on Andrew Marvell ("The Garden")

Anthony Reed on June Jordan ("In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.")

Lindsay Turner on Elizabeth Bishop ("The Shampoo")