Criticism

Microreview: Joshua Beckman, Shake

Poems that investigate the notion of the world as good.

  • Kerri Webster

Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?

For many critics, photography has become a duplicitous force to be defanged rather than an experience to embrace.

  • Susie Linfield

Microreview: Arthur Sze, Quipu

Poems that capture the world’s manifold facts one by one.

  • Brian Teare

Seduced

American Poets of the New Century.

  • Katie Peterson

New England Stories

 What sort of stories do New Englanders tell?

  • G.C. Waldrep

Microreview: Aaron Kunin, Folding Ruler Star

Poems that investigate shame.

  • Nicholas Bredie

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Microreview: Arielle Greenberg, My Kafka Century

Poems that bristle with matter-of-fact strangeness.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Microreview: Linda Gregg, In the Middle Distance

Poems that deal with the memory-occupied ground somewhere between the past and the present. 

  • Dargie Anderson

Science into Poetry

On Raymond Queneau.

  • Marjorie Welish

Wild By Nature

Meteroic Flowers by Elizabeth Willis.

  • Stefania Heim

Microreview: Craig Dworkin, Strand

Poems that ask the reader to reconsider if not abandon the notion of authorship.

  • James Wagner

Narayan Days

Rereading the master.

  • Jhumpa Lahiri

Talk, Talk, Talk

David Antin's i never knew what time it was.

  • Ernest Larsen

Extended Play

Elizabeth Bishop's Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box.

  • John Palattella

Bridge Building

On writing Brookland.

  • Emily Barton

Microreview: Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage

Poems with a playful yet urgent sense of risk.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Microreview: Stephen Paul Miller, Skinny Eighth Avenue

Poems that address politics, current events, theoretical concerns, and personal experience.

  • Barbara K. Fischer

Microreview: Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives

Poems chronicling the lives of everyone the poet had ever come into contact with.

  • Katie Peterson

Name Calling

Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt.

  • Andrée Greene

Microreview: Joe Wenderoth, The Holy Spirit of Life.

Essays for John Ashcroft’s Secret Self.

  • James Wagner

Microreview: Hank Lazer, The New Spirit

A crisis in search of resolution through language.

  • Rusty Morrison

The Dreamlife of Rupert Thomson

"Whenever I start a new book I have nightmares. Night after night."

  • James Hynes

Neglected

Samuel Menashe rediscovered.

  • Kurt Brown

A Broken Place

Pieces of Air in the Epic by Brenda Hillman.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
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