“Ghazal: America The Beautiful” by Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, Waiting for the Light; The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the… Read More
“Independence Day” by Ernest Hilbert
The Yale Review traces its history back to 1819, when a group of Yale faculty members started a quarterly journal then known as The Christian Spectator. It was later renamed The New… Read More
“Independence Day” by John Poch
John Poch has published four collections of poetry. His most recent, Fix Quiet, won the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize. He teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. His… Read More
“An Excerpt from ‘American Letter'” by Archibald MacLeish
"Americans are the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created people in the history of the world.” -- Archibald MacLeish… Read More