This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...

I put a few queries to Sophie Cabot Black, author of this week’s poem “Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center.” I’m fascinated by the way you manage to invoke the infamous Jersey turnpike with ...

Observer New Review guest editor Kate Tempest asks seven fellow poets who she admires to answer one another’s questions about their craft, and how they define success I find it frustrating when ...

In the early 20th century, the composer Charles Ives produced a piece of program music titled “The Unanswered Question,” in which a plaintive, solo trumpet repeatedly poses “the perennial question of ...