Joseph Brodsky was one of the greatest poets of the last century. His work can be celebrated for many things, but for me Brodsky stands out especially as a bridge between cultures. He hailed from the ...

For Schoolchildren You know, I try, when darkness falls, to estimate to some degree — by marking off the grief in miles — the distance now from you to me. And all the figures change to words: ...

In this week’s issue, Keith Gessen reviews the new biography of Joseph Brodsky by Lev Loseff. Brodsky, who died in 1996, had a long relationship with The New Yorker, publishing some forty poems in the ...

This year is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, an occasion that is being celebrated with festivals and conferences across Europe and North America ...

Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky's "Nativity Poems" are an extended meditation on a lifelong theme. They were composed more or less annually from 1962 to 1995 -- pretty much the entire period of his ...

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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the birth in Leningrad of poet Joseph Brodsky. In 1981, I interviewed Brodsky in London on the occasion of another anniversary -- 350 years since the death of poet ...

Beginning when he ""first took up writing poems seriously,"" former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky, who died in 1996 at age 56, wrote a Christmas poem each year. Of the 18 Nativity Poems of this ...

He stood at the head of the classroom, dressed in his uniform of dirty jeans and a tweed jacket, encircled by the cigarette butts he had tossed to the floor while chain-smoking and discussing the ...