Microreview

Microreview: Jane Yeh, Marabou

An impressive first collection.

  • Jennifer Chang

Microreview: Dean Young, Embryoyo

Poems that ricochet like pinballs with their own eclectic brand of kinesis.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Nathaniel Bellows, Why Speak?

Poems full of wide-eyed candor of both the marvelous and the grotesque.

  • Kathryn Crim

Microreview: Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

A remarkable first collection.

  • Nicholas Bredie

Microreview: David Hernandez, Always Danger

Poems that offer a guided tour of the dangers lurking around every corner.

  • Matthew Thorburn

Microreview: Mark Strand, Man and Camel

Poems that play with the high absurd.

  • Charlie Clark

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Microreview: Kathy Graber, Correspondence

Poems that move from Heroditus to plastic snap beads, from Kafka to empty storage containers.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Louise Glück, Averno

Poems that challenge the supposed certainty of myths.

  • Zack Finch

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

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

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

  • Victoria Chang

Microreview: Daisy Fried, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

Poems with an indie-film aesthetic.

  • Fred Muratori

Microreview: Lidija Dimkovska, Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers

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

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

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

Poems that connect country, borough, and marriage.

  • Sarah Cohen

Microreview: The Poems of Anna Margolin

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

  • J.D. Nordell

Microreview: Joshua Beckman, Shake

Poems that investigate the notion of the world as good.

  • Kerri Webster

Microreview: Arthur Sze, Quipu

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

  • Brian Teare

Microreview: Aaron Kunin, Folding Ruler Star

Poems that investigate shame.

  • Nicholas Bredie

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

Microreview: Craig Dworkin, Strand

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

  • James Wagner

Microreview: Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage

Poems with a playful yet urgent sense of risk.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Microreview: Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives

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

  • Katie Peterson
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