Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

The New Wave of Sad Pizzazz: Three British Poets

Twentieth-century British poetry had many virtues, but it was not overburdened with a sense of style.

Prairies of Air

Brian Teare's Companion Grasses.

Microreview: Hillary Gravendyk, Harm

Poetry and physical pain.

“Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners

“Here where she shouldn’t be”: On Conceptual Reading

Poetry has less to do with rules and concepts than it does with transgression.

Medieval Troubadours

While the troubadours are known for their romantic attitudes, some poems reveal disturbing aggression towards women.

Microreview: Calvin Bedient, The Multiple

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

National Poetry Month 2014

It's simple: every day in April, we're publishing a poem.

Seven Questions on Milk and Filth

They Came to Bury Him

Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics

Microreview: Emily Pettit, Goat in the Snow

A radiant debut.

Nearly Baroque

Nearly Baroque poets want art that puts excess, invention, and ornament first.

Country on Fire

Microreview: Lucy Ives, Orange Roses

A poetic coming-of-age narrative.

Frank Lima, 1939–2013

Is there any more hopeful and heartening life story in American poetry than that of Frank Lima?

A World in Flames

Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

Microreview: Sarah Vap, End of the Sentimental Journey

A mystery poem.

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

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

A Note on Rae Armantrout

Who is this poet channeling?

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

Experiencing a classic anew.

Poet’s Sampler: John Duvernoy

Ghost Poet

An interview with the Korean poet Kim Kyung Ju.

Poems on Surveillance

We invited poets to contribute new works, entering into a larger dialogue on what it means to have open eyes and ears in the twenty-first century. Poems by Armantrout, Ashbery, Bernstein, Pinsky, and others.

Microreview: Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade

A rowdy, erudite debut collection.

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