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

  • 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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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)

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