Microreview

Microreview: Rachel Zucker, the pedestrians

  • Chloe Garcia Roberts

Microreview: Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess, X Marks the Dress: A Registry

  • Clare Emily Clifford

Microreview: Roger Reeves, King Me

Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.

  • Virginia Konchan

Microreview: Kevin Young, Book of Hours

Tim Wood reviews Book of Hours, by Kevin Young.

  • Tim Wood

Microreview: Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts

Part poetry collection, part essay.

  • Christine Shan Shan Hou

Microreview: Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed

The poetry of a flâneuse.

  • Anna Moschovakis

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Microreview: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TwERK

The tension between hype and substance. 

  • Mia You

Microreview: Jamaal May, HUM

  • Joelle Biele

Microreview: Lisa Olstein, Little Stranger

Poems that hum beneath the ordinary.

  • Benjamin Landry

Microreview: Hillary Gravendyk, Harm

Poetry and physical pain.

  • Julie Kantor

Microreview: Calvin Bedient, The Multiple

One of the most exciting and volatile poets of our time.

  • Daniel Tiffany

Microreview: Emily Pettit, Goat in the Snow

A radiant debut.

  • Sasha Fletcher

Microreview: Lucy Ives, Orange Roses

A poetic coming-of-age narrative.

  • Katy Lederer

Microreview: Sarah Vap, End of the Sentimental Journey

A mystery poem.

  • Clare Emily Clifford

Microreview: Eleni Sikelianos, The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

Collage poetics, scientific idiom, and exploration of the poem as essay.

  • Carol Moldaw

Microreview: Lyn Hejinian, My Life and My Life in the Nineties

Experiencing a classic anew.

  • Tim Wood

Microreview: Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

  • Hilary Vaughn Dobel

Microreview: Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade

A rowdy, erudite debut collection.

  • Julian B. Gewirtz

Microreview: Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe

Poems on personal and political insecurity.

  • Tim Wood

Microreview: Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities

Part museum study, part lyric essay.

  • Benjamin Landry

Microreview: Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver

  • Joshua Wilson

Microreview: Rachel Richardson, Copperhead

Leaning into silence.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault, The Sonnets

Adaptations that preserve Shakespeare’s wit and carpe diem vulgarity.

  • Rebecca Liu

Microreview: Jennifer Militello, Body Thesaurus

A collection that moves past the body versus mind duality.

  • Gabrielle Flam
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