Fascinating debate on Monday night, in my Modern Poetry class, over how to read a short poem from Judy Grahn's "She Who" sequence (1971-72). Grahn's a lesbian feminist poet, and this sequence is a wonderful mix of theological, political, and...

Another bout of arrant self-promotion. I've now got a regular column on poetry at Tablet (the journal formerly known as Nextbook).  My first shot--on why poetry is less difficult and more fun than people might think--went up today at...