After nearly 47 years, Parnassus is closing. It has been an exhilarating and wonderful adventure to publish a literary magazine that was in the thick of evaluating new poetry from all corners of the world. Our final issue, our 52nd, will b published in two or three weeks. Here are some of its highlights: a […]

by Julian Gewirtz Max Ritvo. Four Reincarnations. Milkweed Editions 2016. 79 pp. $22.00 ✥✥✥ One night, Max Ritvo, a vegetarian, mistakenly ate a dish containing meat and became violently sick. He was also stoned. In the altered state that resulted, he had a vision of his dead white poodle, Monday, whom he addresses in “Poem […]

Self-Portrait as Jesus and Earthquake Country Before Final Chemotherapy

Two Poems by Max Ritvo

Christopher Childers
A review of Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Apollonius’s Argonautica.

A. E. Stallings
On the subtleties in Kiki Dimoula’s dazzling Greek diction.

D. H. Tracy
Why the “English Hart Crane” forsook poetry for prose.

A poem by William Logan

Translated by David Georgi

Jason Guriel
A L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet’s progress.