Tag: poems

  • World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology

    I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…