Microreview

Microreview: Ken Cheng, Juvenilia

A collection that walks the high wire between deeply felt trauma and poetic artifact.

Microreview: Aaron Belz, Lovely, Raspberry

Poems that embrace narrative, brevity, down-to-earth diction, and slapstick.

Microreview: Dara Wier, Selected Poems

A lack of philosophical posturing, name-dropping and other navel-gazing tics makes this collection very attractive.

Review: The Dance of No Hard Feelings

By Mark Bibbins.

Review: The Mansion of Happiness

By Robin Ekiss.

Review: Bluets

By Maggie Nelson.

Virgil’s Cow

By Frederick Farryl Goodwin.

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: 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.

Review: The All-Purpose Magical Tent

By Lytton Smith.

Review: Star in the Eye

By James Shea.

Review: Sophie Robinson’s a

A poetry collection that feels both peculiarly allusive and particular.

Review: Stupid Hope

By Jason Shinder.

Review: Zero Readership

By Filip Marinovich.

Review: Days of Unwilling

By Cal Bedient.

Review: Skirmish

By Dobby Gibson.

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