We asked ten writers to comment on the use of dance and dance imagery in poems. The following feature includes:

• Sara Henning on Ross Gay’s “Burial”
• Sarah Nance on Lucille Clifton’s “untitled” (1991), “God send easter,” “spring song,” “homage to my hair,” “my dream about being white,” “untitled” (1996), “the poet,” “from the cadaver,” “amazons,” “in salem,” and “1994”
• Christopher Kempf on Frank Bidart’s “Ulanova at Forty-Six at Last Dances Before a Camera Giselle”
• Hugh Martin on Yusef Komunayakaa’s “To Have Danced with Death”
• Jesse Lee Kercheval on Gerald Stern’s “The Dancing”
• Jennifer Schomburg Kanke on Annie Finch and The Furious Sun in Her Mane
• Bonnie Proudfoot on Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Spanish Dancer”
• Therese Gleason on Anne Sexton’s “How We Danced” and “The Wedding Ring Dance”

Subsequently, we added six essays to an online expansion of this feature. Those are:

• Lisa Bellamy: “‘The Dancing’, by Gerald Stern”
• Maya Sonenberg’s “Dada Dance”
• Karen Hildebrand’s “Blinded by Love”
• Jocelyn Heath’s and Joanna Eleftheriou’s “girls/all night long: (re)constructing sappho”
• Renée K. Nicholson’s “Sur Les Pointes”
• Victoria Hudson Hayes’s “why,it is love”