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

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

Anyone seeking local genius in an international festival should look no further than the annual Ravenna concerts from ...