Criticism

Review: Bluets

By Maggie Nelson.

Degrees of Sight

Rain: Poems by Don Paterson

Virgil’s Cow

By Frederick Farryl Goodwin.

Poetry Hot and Cold

Reviewing Leland Hickman and Myung Mi Kim.

Before History

Harry Clifton's Secular Eden.

Without End

The poems of Ann Lauterbach’s Or to Begin Again probe the difficult questions—ethical, emotional, political, and even spiritual—of accounting for despair.

Review: The Living Fire

By Edward Hirsch.

Review: The Stranger Manual

By Catie Rosemurgy.

Review: Clampdown

By Jennifer Moxley.

Review: Full Catastrophe Living

By Zach Savich.

Review: Tracer

By Richard Greenfield.

Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

Called Into Being

Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven.
 

Slumming

Daniel Tiffany’s "Infidel Poetics"

The Other Mother Tongue

On The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.

Review: The Arrival

By Daniel Simko.

Review: Practical Water

By Brenda Hillman.

Review: Restoration

By Christina Pugh.

Review: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

By Robert Henryson.

Review: Close Calls with Nonsense

By Stephen Burt.

Review: Petals of Zero, Petals of One

By Andrew Zawacki.

Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

Know-How

H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet

Restless

On the poetry of Carl Phillips.

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