Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

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

Wolf Cento

  • Simone Muench

Lyric Backlash

Thoughts on the Oulipo and César Vallejo in response to Calvin Bedient.

  • Rachel Galvin

Flarf is Life: The Poetry of Affect

In response to Calvin Bedient.

  • Drew Gardner

Turbulence

Ed Skoog's Rough Day

  • Broc Rossell

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Threat Level: Poetry

The monster gone rogue.

  • Amy King

Poet’s Sampler: Maud Poole

  • Cate Marvin
  • Maud Poole

Microreview: Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver

  • Joshua Wilson

Notes on Nursery Rhymes

The absence of children who have died mark mothers’ lives.

BBP13

Ahren Warner strikes a seductive compact between the older and younger camps of British poetry.

  • Dai George

Radical Formalism

Keston Sutherland and Geoffrey G. O’Brien in Performance

  • David Gorin

Paradise of Absence

Alan Shapiro's Night of the Republic

  • Jeremy Bass

Poems Seeking Readers

Flemish by Caroline Knox, and Meme by Susan Wheeler.

  • Jo Ann Clark

Microreview: Rachel Richardson, Copperhead

Leaning into silence.

  • Tess Taylor

The Verbal Equivalent of a Homemade Bomb

On Andrew Elliott's Mortality Rate.

  • Beverley Bie Brahic

Awkward, Diligent: Liu Xiaobo’s Love Poetry

The creative output of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

  • Nick Admussen

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

“At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice”: An Interview with Alice Notley

Plus, a collage and new poems.

  • Lindsay Turner

The Marriage of Granite and Rainbow: A Biography of Robert Duncan

Lisa Jarnot offers a glimpse into the academic and artistic communities of Robert Duncan.

  • Brian Teare

Microreview: Emily Fragos, Hostage

Poems that remain in the mind. 

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff

A Conversation with Stephen Burt

The ethics of the imagination: after crossing the threshold into a fantasy world, can we safely dispense with social norms?

  • Monica Youn

Microreview: Bin Ramke, Aerial

Stunning, strange, and original verse. 

  • Noah Eli Gordon
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