Dec 31, 2014
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Take a look back at our twenty most-read poems.
Charles Bernstein has said that “poetry should be at least as interesting as television” and we at Boston Review couldn’t agree with him more. This year we published well over 100 remarkably interesting poems, representing the work of emerging as well as established poets and featuring a wide array of styles and forms, from short lyrics to long sequences, prose poems to sonnets, a number of poems in translation, a visual poem, a cento, and even a handful of limericks.
Take a look back at our twenty most-read poems of 2014, presented here in alphabetical order by author’s last name:
Amber Atiya, “when the end is near”
Dan Chelotti, “Odysseus Amongst the Swine Glances Toward Ithaca”
Christopher Deweese, “The Tide”
Regina DiPerna, “Where My Body Has Been”
John Duvernoy, Poet’s Sampler introduced by Timothy Liu
Adam Fitzgerald, “Riverboat”
David Gorin, “East Jerusalem”
francine j. harris, 2014 Poetry Contest Winner
Cathy Park Hong, “Inside Beyoncé”
Sara Eliza Johnson, “Letter from the Ice Field, December”
Douglas Kearney, “Runaway Tongue”
Kim Kyung Ju, Three Poems, translated from the Korean by Jake Levine
Rickey Laurentiis, “Of the Leaves that Have Fallen,” introduced by Timothy Donnelly
Dana Levin, "Murray, My”
Anthony Madrid, Five Limericks, illustrated by Mark Fletcher
Lisa Olstein, “Night People”
Robyn Schiff, “A Hearing”
Susan Stewart, “the dead, inscribed, alphabetical, within”
Ocean Vuong, Poet’s Sampler introduced by Amy King
Monica Youn, Two Poems: "Portrait of a Hanged Woman" and "Lamentation of a Hanged Man"
Plus, one poem a day in April for National Poetry Month, a star-studded series of Poems on Surveillance, and Daniel Tiffany leads a forum on class and the avant garde. And, check out Boston Review's top poems of 2013.
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December 31, 2014
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