M I R A B I L A R Y

my resignation

I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine.

Nov 16, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

May 2023

notes on teaching: the entire world

or, unity in literary composition

May 5, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

March 2023

notes on poetry: 100 years of Spring and All

or William Carlos Williams destroys the world

Mar 18, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

February 2023

notes on poetry: letter from Buenos Aires

in the Danteum, or the lost keys to purgatory --

Feb 25, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

notes on teaching: I don't fuck with the term "lyric essay."

on Soul and Form, Essayism, bad terms, sketchy corners.

Feb 4, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

January 2023

the one horse & the nextover

or, the middle of nowhere

Jan 25, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

notes on poetry: the fairest thing I leave behind

is sunlight / then shining stars and the full moon's face / and also ripe cucumbers, and apples and pears

Jan 6, 2023 • 

Anne Boyer

July 2021

notes on art: the governing grass of a dream language

The secret to watercolor is negativity and accident -- along with this, luminosity and limitation.

Jul 22, 2021 • 

Anne Boyer

notes on art: "each homer of nought"

At the end of the pandemic which wasn't the end, the words hovered above the vellum, lambent and clear.

Jul 5, 2021 • 

Anne Boyer

September 2020

notes on poetry: there will be singing

Literature isn't a thing you do for yourself, but you also don't not do it for yourself.

Sep 24, 2020 • 

Anne Boyer

notes on teaching: "something divine was promised and it melted away in the mouth"

or, the dialectic

Sep 2, 2020 • 

Anne Boyer

March 2020