Topic: “Poetry”

Pound’s China/Pound’s “Cathay”

A review of Cathay: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound, edited by Timothy Billings.

On the Partheneion, by Alcman, Sparta’s greatest poet.

A review of James Wright: A Life in Poetry, by Jonathan Blunk.

The New Criterion’s poetry editor interviews the poet, editor, and teacher.

On Vasily Grossman, St. Matthew’s Passion, Tintoretto, Art Deco & more from the world of culture.

A conversation with our poetry editor and a reading by a New Criterion Poetry Prize–winner.

On Petrarch, a battle over a British museum, the ADA and the art gallery & more.