During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Readers are generally well advised to keep away from books whose titles contain the words best or greatest in conjunction with poems or poetry. Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of two essays responding to Calvin Bedient’s “Against Conceptualism.” Read Rachel Galvin’s response here. These models . . . are so concerned with the work being done in the ...