"I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

His name is John Brooks Hamby, and he’s the vice chairman of the board of directors for the Colorado River’s largest single ...

If I am happy, it is because I drank coffee; if I am sad, it is because I drank too much coffee or not enough; if I have a ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her ...

The Winter issue of The Paris Review opens with “Camouflage,” a story by Adania Shibli, the first line of which nudges us, ominously, toward a much broader picture: “We have nothing to do with what’s ...

Last night I had that dream again, the one about being shot in the face at close range and my mouth flying off down some white corridor, and I’m so angry with myself for not getting out of the way in ...

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...