claire schwartz

Selected writing

POETRY

• “Perennial” | Literary Hub

• “Meaning Well” and “Death Revises Badly” | Virginia Quarterly Review

• “Letter by Letter” and “Lecture on Loneliness” | Granta

• “Lecture on the History of the House” | Poetry Magazine

• “Apples” | The Nation

• “Object Lesson” and “Preferential Treatment” | Poetry Magazine

• “Persona” | The Believer

• “Where I Eat” | Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day

• “Birds” | Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

• “The Nothing Letters” (with Nathan Goldman) | Jewish Currents

• “Terms of Entry: On Solmaz Sharif’s Customs” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “Reading Otherwise: On Toni Morrison’s Recitatif” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “Portraits of Empire” | Jewish Currents

• “When June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried To Redesign Harlem” | The New Yorker (web)

• “Taking Care” (with Nathan Goldman) | Jewish Currents (web)

• “Beauty and Terror: On Aria Aber’s Hard Damage” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “To Know By Heart: Workshop, Whiteness, and the Rigorous Imagination of Ai” | Electric Literature

• “On Looking: Friendship and the New Haven Green” | The Appendix

• Review of Donika Kelly's Bestiary | The Georgia Review

• Review of Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf | The Boston Review

• Review of Aracelis Girmay's the black maria | Kenyon Review (web)

• Review of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds | The Georgia Review

• Review of Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus | The Georgia Review

• Review of Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Perigee

INTERVIEWS

• “A Strangeness Inside Your Self: A Conversation with Hélène Cixous” | Jewish Currents

• “The Widening Net of Punishment: Dorothy Roberts and Charlotte Shane on the Criminalization of Abortion and the Expansion of the Police State” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “Assuming the Perspective of the Ancestor: A Conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “The Politics of Syntax and Poetry Beyond the Border: A Conversation with Ari Banias” | The Nation (web)

• “For the Sake of Truth: A Conversation with Mohammed El-Kurd” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “The Wide Question: A Q&A With Kaveh Akbar” | Poets & Writers

• “The Collective Work of Abolition: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba” | Jewish Currents (web)

• “Ways to Open a Door: An Interview with Destiny Birdsong” | The Paris Review Daily

• “Forward Thinking: Masha Gessen on Language and the Social Imagination” | Virginia Quarterly Review

• “Aracelis Girmay: In Conversation with Claire Schwartz” | The Bennington Review

• “Robin Coste Lewis: ‘Black Joy is My Primary Aesthetic'” | Literary Hub

• “Kai Cheng Thom: Giving Birth to Yourself” | Guernica

• “‘Moving Toward what I Don’t Know’: An Interview with Tracy K. Smith” | The Iowa Review

• “An Interview with Claudia Rankine” | TriQuarterly

• “Language and Ruthlessness: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey” | Oxford American (web)

• “An Interview with Rita Dove” | Virginia Quarterly Review