After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like “This ...

and Michael Robbins, whose “Sonnets to Edward Snowden” are a fulcrum in his 2014 The Second Sex. BK Fischer: I’m interested in the sonnet as a choreographic or athletic space. Phillis Levin, in her ...

Michael Robbins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss “Myrtle,” by John Ashbery, and his own poem “Country Music.” This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to ...

"My heart is lovely, dark and deep," Michael Robbins writes in a poem called "Plastic Robbins Band" in "Alien vs. Predator," his first collection. He's lying, shamelessly. Based on these buzzing ...