The 10 Best Books of 2019, According to Slate’s Books Editor

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Despite the Twerking and F-Bombs, Dickinson Gets Emily Dickinson Right

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Why Dickinson Turns a Death-Obsessed Poet Into a Teenage Rebel

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Oct 30, 2019 12:45 PM

Harold Bloom’s Best of the Best American Poetry Shows Him at His Most Aloof and His Most Electrifying

Jason Guriel

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The XFL’s Team Introductions Are the Most Affecting Poetry Ever Written

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Aug 23, 2019 4:08 PM

The Complicated History of the Poem on the Statue of Liberty

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Aug 15, 2019 5:37 PM

Remembering David Berman Through Our Favorite Lyrics and Poems

Aug 08, 2019 7:32 PM

The New Hampshire Poetry Community Has Never Been More Angry

Ruth Graham

July 18, 2019 12:15 PM

The Greatest Songwriter You’ve Never Heard of Is Back

Carl Wilson

July 11, 2019 7:05 PM

How Terrance Hayes Transforms the Staid Sonnet Into Something New

Stephanie Burt

May 28, 2019 9:00 AM

A Punk, a Writer, and a Cop Poet

April 25, 2019 5:00 PM

How Humor Makes a Poem Especially Alive

Jonathan Farmer

March 27, 2019 12:18 PM

The Love Song of J. Howard Starbucks

Matthew Dessem

March 11, 2019 3:44 AM

Turning Policing Into Poetry

March 05, 2019 6:01 AM

What a Collection of Rape Jokes Tells Us About Offensive Art in the Age of Outrage

Laura Miller

Jan 28, 2019 5:45 AM

My Mom, Mary Oliver, Fancy Smart People, and Me

Rebecca Onion

Jan 17, 2019 7:01 PM

How Hilma af Klint Got Brushed Aside

Jan 17, 2019 5:00 PM

This Book Is the Most Honest and Eloquent Expression of What Illness Is Like I’ve Ever Read

Christopher Shinn

Dec 05, 2018 9:00 AM

An Oregon Teenager Finds He Has Nothing—and Everything—in Common With Sylvia Plath

Nov 27, 2018 6:00 AM

Hamilton’s Chris Jackson Didn’t Know He Was Cast in Hamilton

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