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Tag: Microreview

Poems that remain in the mind. 
Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff
Stunning, strange, and original verse. 
Noah Eli Gordon
Poems that refuse to leave the body. 
Andy Nicole Bowers
Non-sonnets and other love poems.
Lynn Melnick

The prose poems in Carlo Matos’s second collection engage questions about the nature of free will: How does one discern fate from one’s choices?

Kristina Marie Darling
Poems addressed to you as much as to anyone.
Roy Scranton
Bernadette Mayer’s The Scarlet Tanager.
Bryn Canner

Dean Young’s first book of criticism is a frenetic and subversive meditation on poetry and poetics seemingly inspired by Whitman’s exhortation to “unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"

Jason Tandon

This debut collection is packed with personae the way a forest is packed with trees.

W. M. Lobko

Winner of the 2011 Slope Editions Book Prize.

Anna Ross

A vibrant and incisive first collection. 

Lynn Melnick

In her follow-up to Orchidelirium (2004), Deborah Landau explores a new relationship between the poet and the urban night.

Jay Deshpande

Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon charts the arc of abjection after the death of a grandfather.

Kristina Marie Darling

Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving “self-help memoir.”

Kelly Fordon

Poems unafraid to salute our democratic ideals. 

Noah Eli Gordon

A personal and cultural history fit together first as hearing and then as seeing.

W. M. Lobko
Willis has the finest ear for the lyric amongst her generation.
Richard Deming

Forrest Gander’s latest book injects ethical consequence into his daring sense of the permeability of structure and the instability of form.

Richard Deming

After more than a dozen books, Dean Young has become the spokesperson for a certain kind of poetic abandon.

Andrew Allport

Poems with pleasing uncertainty.

Elizabeth Gramm

Between poetry and stand-up comedy.

Kathleen Rooney

Niels Frank's latest collection is more like an inspired monologue than poems. 

Nate Pritts
Megan Levad

Can the nation-state serve social justice?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others. Plus Leila Farsakh on Palestinian statehood, Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on a “solidarity state,” Joshua Craze on rule by militia, and much more. 

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