John Palattella

Literary Editor

John Palattella is literary editor of The Nation. His essays and reviews about poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, the London Review of Books, Bookforum and Boston Review.

Currently

  • Laurels for Ange Mlinko

    April 14, 2009

    Poet and Nation contributor Ange Mlinko has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism for work that is "eclectic and astringent yet always lucid and generous."

  • Bad Paper

    February 18, 2009

    Does the author of They Knew They Were Right really think he has done nothing wrong?

2008

  • Hello Cruel World

    June 26, 2008

    The narrative journalism of David Samuels finds conversation, color and conflict in the vortex of American life.

2007

  • Lines of Resistance

    February 1, 2007

    Rhetorical acts of defiance define the work of three contemporary Palestinian poets.

2006

  • Poetry, From Noun to Verb

    August 31, 2006 Subscribe

    Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense of dislocation.

  • La Vie de Bohème

    January 4, 2006 Subscribe

    Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.

2005

  • Prosaic Judgments

    June 29, 2005 Subscribe

    Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

  • Patrimony

    April 21, 2005 Subscribe

    Kevin Young updates the Harlem Renaissance for the hip-hop generation.

2004

2003

2002

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