LITERATURE

Laboratory Technician of words, Shanny Jean Maney turns plain language into curious, knowledge-hungry poetry. Learn More

Kirill Medvedev is a young Russian poet who in 2003 rejected the Moscow literary world for its corruption and irrelevance. Learn More

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Learn More

Love poems, Bukowski-style. Learn More

A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg’s billowing, I-contain-multitudes style lays bare the poet’s sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and narrative, at once plainspoken and musically elaborate. Learn More

Masala Tea and Oranges is a poetic discussion of who are in love and conflict. It asks who we are in the darkest corners of our existence, and when we finally shed light on those recesses. Learn More

A collection of Bukowski's poetry. Learn More

The Romans believed that an artist's inspiration came from a spirit, called a genius, that lived in the walls of the artist's home. Learn More

During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Learn More