Every week, the editors of The Paris Review
lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter.
Allen Ginsberg, ca. 1979. Photo: Michiel Hendryckx.
This week at
The Paris Review, as National Poetry Month winds down, we’re continuing to celebrate
Poets at Work, our latest anthology of interviews. Read on for work by three of the writers included in the book: Allen Ginsberg’s Art of Poetry interview, an excerpt from Susan Howe’s “Defenestration of Prague,” and Derek Walcott’s poem “The Light of the World.” You can also read