For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

I realize my five-hour pretest class has elapsed. To take my road test again, I will have to start over completely and take it again. This is another fifty dollars and another five hours of my life.

My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...

It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.