Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Microview: Lisa Russ Spaar, Vanitas, Rough

Poems that refuse to leave the body. 

  • Andy Nicole Bowers

Microreview: Betsy Wheeler, Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room

Non-sonnets and other love poems.

  • Lynn Melnick

The Discipline of Vicinity

Far from a paean to the far-off and the frontier, Walden testifies to what is most next and near.

  • Christina Davis

Lost and (Almost) Found

Dara Wier's You Good Thing

  • Michael D. Snediker

Microreview: Counting Sheep Until Doomsday, Carlo Matos

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

Microreview: Anselm Berrigan, Notes from Irrelevance

Poems addressed to you as much as to anyone.

  • Roy Scranton

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Round and Round

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

  • Lytton Smith

Her Poets

A conversation with Maureen N. McLane

  • BK Fischer

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Against Conceptualism

Conceptualism aims to eliminiate affect from poetry. There are emotional and political consequences.

  • Calvin Bedient

The Not-Saying

On the renunciation of poetry.

  • Christina Davis

New Nature

Women Poets Escape Family—And Convention

  • Katie Peterson

Shifting the (Im)balance

On race and the poetry canon.

  • Evie Shockley

The After Party

An Interview with Chris Martin on Becoming Weather

  • Ted Mathys
  • Chris Martin

Thrilled with the Gifts of Humans

A Conversation with Michael Zapruder

  • Dan Chelotti
  • Michael Zapruder

The World Is Really Falling Apart

A Conversation with Noelle Kocot

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
  • Noelle Kocot

The Poetesses

An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried

  • BK Fischer

Unacceptable

Paul Goodman was thinking globally and acting locally before it became a slogan.

  • Judith Levine

Exhuming Neruda

How did Chile’s great poet die?

  • Stephen Phelan

A More Ordinary Poet

With Emily Dickinson, the challenge is to understand a flesh-and-blood woman whose life took place on paper.

  • Gillian Osborne

The Progressive Puritan

Revisiting the Poems of Marianne Moore

  • Siobhan Phillips

Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain

The life of the black poet.

  • Major Jackson

How It’s Made

Eileen Myles — Snowflake/different streets.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Games About Frames

Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O’Brien

  • Stephanie Burt
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