At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets ever published. He wrote dozens of collections, and many highly quotable bangers that a reader would be as likely to see on a family bookshelf as the SAT. With champions like Oprah and Maria Shriver,
At the 2026 Venice Biennale, artists and writers gathered at Yto Barrada’s exhibition in the French Pavilion to pay tribute to Lebanese-American artist Atel Adnan. A veteran polymath working across poetry, prose and visual arts, Adnan’s practice included themes of dispersion, uncertainty and connection. Since his death in November 2021 at the age of 96,
Yodel: Complete acceptance of that which can no longer be hidden and therefore that which we always have to hide. Yodel: Shimmering Adam’s Apple. It is not dissimilar to the sound we sometimes make unconsciously, a kind of croaking sound, a sound that is not so much made as emitted and then immediately and often