Nathaniel Rosenthalis
Nathaniel Rosenthalis is the author of The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books, August 31, 2023). His other books include his debut, I Won’t Begin Again, winner of the 2021 Burnside Press Review Book Award, and 24 Hour Air (PANK, 2022). He lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at NYU and works professionally as an actor and singer. More can be found at www.nathanielrosenthalis.com
By Nathaniel Rosenthalis
Ten Best Poems of the Past Ten Years
Funeral sermons for poetry seldom discuss, in detail, a single poem. This is a problem of reception, not of poesis, or making. I offer, here, under a perhaps too-pithy conceit, the antidote: a hyper-close, even seemingly rudimentary, close reading of ten poems from the past ten years that I believe offer glimpses of the most vital work in today’s poetry.
Remembering Robert Lowell on His Birthday
I was seduced by the tautness of his language and the grandiosity of his worldview.
