The Nation

==Poetry==
Since its creation, ''The Nation'' has published significant works of [[American poetry]],<ref name="Schuessler">Jennifer Schuessler, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/arts/poem-nation-apology.html A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology], ''New York Times'' (August 1, 2018).</ref><ref name="Schulman">Grace Schulman, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/opinion/nation-poem-anders-carlson-wee.html The Nation Magazine Betrays a Poet — and Itself], ''New York Times'' (August 6, 2018).</ref> including works by [[Hart Crane]], [[Eli Siegel]], [[Elizabeth Bishop]], and [[Adrienne Rich]],<ref name="Schuessler"/> as well as [[W.S. Merwin]], [[Pablo Neruda]], [[Denise Levertov]], and [[Derek Walcott]].<ref name="Schulman"/>

In 2018, the magazine published a poem entitled "How-To" by Anders Carlson-Wee which was written in the voice of a homeless man and used [[African-American Vernacular English|black vernacular]]. This led to criticism from writers such as [[Roxane Gay]] because Carlson-Wee is white. ''The Nation''{{'}}s two poetry editors, [[Stephanie Burt]] and [[Carmen Giménez Smith]], issued an apology for publishing the poem, the first such action ever taken by the magazine.<ref name="Schuessler"/> The apology itself became an object of criticism also. Poet and ''Nation'' columnist [[Katha Pollitt]] called the apology "craven" and likened it to a letter written from "a reeducation camp".<ref name="Schuessler"/> [[Grace Schulman]], ''The Nation''{{'}}s poetry editor from 1971 to 2006, wrote that the apology represented a disturbing departure from the magazine's traditionally broad conception of [[artistic freedom]].<ref name="Schulman"/>