On August 4, 2023, The New York Times published Dwight Garner's brilliant interactive "close read" interpretation of Rita Dove's poem "American Smooth".
It's the third time that the NYT included poetry in its "Closer Look at Art" series, after Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" in 2021 and W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" in 2022.