Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

[ill wind]

  • Jesse Lichtenstein

The State of Utah Is Shaped Like a Glove

  • Alina Gregorian

Dear Day,

  • Catherine Pierce

Poet’s Sampler: Corina Copp

Reading Corina Copp’s work, one gets the sense that she is part of a long lineage of poets whose language is less a means to express what can be said than what should be said, or what has long been waiting to be said.

  • Corina Copp
  • Dorothea Lasky

Cold Gem

Fuller enters a babblingly confident corporate world where he concedes that something frightful is on the way.

  • Calvin Bedient

Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout's Money Shot.

  • William Montgomery

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Microreview: Laura Solomon, The Hermit

“I dreamt of a poem in which I mastered all my feelings.”

  • Nate Pritts

Microreview: Lisa Fishman, Flower Cart

Poems driven by the spirit of thing-finding.

  • Leah Falk

Microreview: Eugenijus Ališanka, from unwritten histories

Giving voice to identity and experience.

  • Kristie Kachler

Microreview: Albert Mobilio, Touch Wood

Bare poetic essentials that at the same time function as gleaming ornaments.

  • Alan Gilbert

Microreview: Shira Dentz, black seeds on a white dish

Poems that challenge the reader to some speedy catch-me-if-you-can linguistic play.

  • Celia Bland

Thin Kimono

  • Megan Levad

The Escape Artist

Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations

  • Robert Huddleston

Gone Missing

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Metropole

  • David Gorin

In from the Cold

Miłosz and Brodsky’s productive exile.

  • Alissa Valles

Microreview: Shane McCrae, Mule

Poems about being “half.”

  • Amelia Klein

Microreview: Anja Utler, Engulf—Enkindle

An exciting young German-language poet of rare linguistic and imaginative inventiveness and power.

  • Paul Franz

Microreview: Ewa Chrusciel, Strata

Remarkable prose poems from Poland.

  • Tony Brinkley

Microreview: Heather Christle, The Difficult Farm

A powerful voice in younger American poetry has arrived.

  • Robert Schnall

Microreview: Joanna Klink, Raptus

Joanna Klink’s third collection, Raptus, masterfully navigates the treacherous zone between the lyric and the all-too poetical.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

In the Details

Looking Closely with Allan Peterson

  • Stephanie Burt

When That Becomes This

Comparison in politics and poetry.

  • David Micah Greenberg

Microreview: Ian Pindar, Emporium

A darkly genial debut collection.

  • Paul Franz

Microreview: G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts

Two poets collaborate on a shared present. 

  • Raymond McDaniel
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