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Sometimes the moon looks so close you believe you'll drive into it on a Friday night. Dan Chiasson is on one with ''The Math Campers.'' Existential and as real as [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Far Out What the Bolinas poets built. Bolinas, California, is a settlement along the San Andreas Fault, about thirty miles north of San Francisco. The Coast Miwok [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson That's the Joke Big laughs and hard silences in Erin Belieu's poetry. The title of Erin Belieu's new book of poems, 'Come-Hither Honeycomb' (Copper Canyon), is a [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Inside Story Henry Adams excavated the past and anticipated the future. Away we go into a Presidential transition, one of the most worrisome since 1860-61, when the [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Critical Distances Enduring desires in the poetry of Henri Cole and Eduardo C. Corral. During the winter of 2016, after the Times sent out disposable virtual-reality headsets [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Suspended Pleasures A month in the life of Bernadette Mayer. On July 1, 1971, the American poet and conceptual artist Bernadette Mayer began to record one month [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Making Bold Wanda Coleman's fearless invention. tifPhotograph by Michael J. Elderman68 'I make one chicken feed five,' Wanda Coleman wrote in 'My Love Brings Flowers,' a poem [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson A Trick of the Senses Robert Hass's inner history of the decade. tifIllustration by Marc Pallar�sIn 'Summer Snow,' Hass's poems embed the stories of how they were [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Original Recipes Appetite and anxiety in Tommy Pico's poems. tifIllustration by Michael Cho68 Tommy Pico's book-length poem 'Feed' (Tin House) is, like a social-media feed, a scrolling, [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Make It Old Charles Wright's poetry marches forward while looking back. tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell82 Charles Wright's massive new volume of selected poems, 'Oblivion Banjo' (Farrar, Straus [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Freewriting In poetry, Reginald Dwayne Betts has license to tell his story out of order. tifPhotograph by Gioncarlo Valentine for The New YorkerBetts became a poet in [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Walks of Life Beginnings and endings in the poetry of Fanny Howe. tifPhotograph by Michael Avedon / AugustHowe's poems suggest tidy trajectories, then swerve toward nonnarrative insight.72 [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Reader, I Googled It Amid fears about the death of books, finding new ways to bring them to life. tifIllustration by Ben DenzerUndistracted reading hasn't disappeared; it [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson The Sense of an Ending James Tate's last poems. tifIllustration by Keith NegleyIn his posthumous collection, dying is a grim comedy of misunderstood connections.73 The poet James [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Bittersweet Natalie Scenters-Zapico's poems evoke damage and repair. tifIllustration by Angelica AlzonaIn 'Lima :: Lim�n,' the work of self-construction entails painful contradiction.65 An unusual punctuation mark fastens [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Man of the House Walter Gropius and the legacy of the Bauhaus. tifPhotograph by Jason Fulford for The New YorkerThe living room of the house Gropius designed [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson A Still Small Poem David Baker bears witness to the natural world. tifIllustration by Jeff �stbergA poet of systems, Baker is attuned to cycles and processes, not [...]

Byline: Dan Chiasson Song of My Selves Shane McCrae's poems to America. tifPhotograph by Ike Edeani for The New Yorker'The Gilded Auction Block' evokes the vitality and brutality of American [...]

Byline: Dan ChiassonBlank LooksSeeing and beholding in the poetry of Sally Wen Mao. tifIllustration by Ping Zhu; source image by Jen LueIn 'Oculus,' the plasticity of identity is at once [...]

I learned that Seamus Heaney had died from a New York Times push notification, a feature on my phone that I keep intending to turn off. It was the saddest [...]