Criticism

A Measure of Splendor

The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 

  • Victoria Chang

The Beginning of Wisdom

Like many other writers of his time, H.G. Wells thought of himself as a Man of the Future, but his style of self-presentation remained Victorian.

  • Vivian Gornick

The Quiet Man

John McGahern’s Ireland.

  • Roger Boylan

Last Laughs

The poems and fiction of Kenneth Koch.

  • Tanya Larkin

Whole New World

On Alice Notley.

  • Brian Teare

Bewitched

Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia.

  • Joyelle McSweeney

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Review: biography of water

Poems experimental in form and timeless in rhythm and imagery.

  • Nadia Herman Colburn

Review: Journey to the Lost City

By Jonathan Aaron.

  • Jana Prikryl

Review: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk

By Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Review: Quarantine

Poems that need to be experienced as a whole.

  • Zack Finch

Review: Past Imperfect

By Suzanne Buffam.

  • Sandra Lim

Revealed

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's I Love Artists.

  • Susan Barba

Microreview: Matt Hart, Who’s Who Vivid/Revelated

Two new collections with a quirky, edgy, original, and endlessly energetic voice.

  • Victoria Chang

From The Us

  • Joan Houlihan

Microreview: Daisy Fried, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

Poems with an indie-film aesthetic.

  • Fred Muratori

A Moral Fiction

Reading John Champlin Gardner.

  • Charles Johnson

Microreview: Lidija Dimkovska, Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers

Swaggering and prosey poems that take on the sorrows of love.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Sweet New Style

Lisa Robertson's The Men.

  • Tom Thompson

Microreview: Noelle Kocot, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems

Poems that connect country, borough, and marriage.

  • Sarah Cohen

The Brain’s Tent

Lynette Robert’s Collected Poems.

  • John Wilkinson

ZONED

The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover.

  • John Palattella

Make It New

Poetry collections from independent presses.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Microreview: The Poems of Anna Margolin

The first English translation of the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin’s single volume, Lider.

  • J.D. Nordell

Native Speaker

An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

  • Laila Lalami
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