Modest layoffs produced the predictable Chicken Little cries of doom inside the State Department—as well as some Deep State poetry.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

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Vinson Cunningham on the artist Rashid Johnson’s exhibition “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” a sprawling survey at the Guggenheim.

But even more troubling, Justice Jackson apparently does not see the irony of her own position. Her dissent did not "impact the outcome" of the case.

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Irony still seems to fall flat in a culture where one-dimensional discourse is promoted from the earliest days of school on up into the professional world.

Learn about the different kinds of irony in this primer for actors and creators.

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