Summer Poetry Reading

Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan

Introducing “What Nature”

The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.

In Memoriam: John Ashbery

We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication​,​ and grace.

High Wire Acts

Speaking of Sonnets with Sandra Simonds, Michael Robbins, and Noelle Kocot

Chokehold

Claudia Rankine's Embodied Rhythms

Sieves of Consciousness

On Mary Ruefle's Trances of the Blast

Her Poets

A conversation with Maureen N. McLane

The Poetesses

An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried

Amen

Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul

Hello Kitty

“Gurlesque poets,” Glenum writes, “put the unabashed quest for female pleasure at the center of their poetics.”

World Tumbling Into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.

Into the Language Lab

Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr's Poetry and Pedagogy.

Object Relations

Venus Becomes a Document

Talking Cures by Richard Howard.

Review: Torn Awake and Such Rich Hour

Two new poetry collections. 

Review: Carson, Fulton, Rankine

Poetic experiments in three mid-career books.

Review: Then, Suddenly—

By Lynn Emanuel. 

Arachne: Recent Memory

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