Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Microreview: Ken Cheng, Juvenilia

A collection that walks the high wire between deeply felt trauma and poetic artifact.

  • Sumita Chakraborty

Microreview: Monica Youn, Ignatz

Humor and love act like cat and mouse in this collection.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Barbara Claire Freeman, Incivilities

Poems whose power to depict the zeitgeist rivals the iconic image making of Dorothea Lange.

  • Virginia Konchan

The Side of Love

In his poems and essays, Dan Chiasson proves equally adept at rigorous self-interrogation and at an intellectual probing of the outer world.

  • Piotr Florczyk

The Raw and the Cooked

On spontaneity in poetry.

  • Christopher Schmidt

Catch the Dying Light

Out of mourning and its aftermath, The Bride of E asserts a new and energized approach to elegy.

  • Lindsay Turner

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Microreview: Aaron Belz, Lovely, Raspberry

Poems that embrace narrative, brevity, down-to-earth diction, and slapstick.

  • Jason Labbe

Review: Union!

By Ish Klein.

  • Kristina Marie Darling

Microreview: Dara Wier, Selected Poems

A lack of philosophical posturing, name-dropping and other navel-gazing tics makes this collection very attractive.

  • Virginia Konchan

Review: The Dance of No Hard Feelings

By Mark Bibbins.

  • Fred Muratori

No Letting Go

Bob Hicok's Words for Empty and Words for Full.
 

  • Keith Taylor

Review: The Mansion of Happiness

By Robin Ekiss.

  • Elisabeth Divis

Review: Bluets

By Maggie Nelson.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Degrees of Sight

Rain: Poems by Don Paterson

  • Dai George

Virgil’s Cow

By Frederick Farryl Goodwin.

  • Samuel Amadon

Poetry Hot and Cold

Reviewing Leland Hickman and Myung Mi Kim.

  • Calvin Bedient

Before History

Harry Clifton's Secular Eden.

  • Alissa Valles

Without End

The poems of Ann Lauterbach’s Or to Begin Again probe the difficult questions—ethical, emotional, political, and even spiritual—of accounting for despair.

  • Richard Deming

Review: The Living Fire

By Edward Hirsch.

  • Piotr Florczyk

Review: The Stranger Manual

By Catie Rosemurgy.

  • Elizabeth Gramm

Review: Clampdown

By Jennifer Moxley.

  • Christopher Schmidt

Review: Full Catastrophe Living

By Zach Savich.

  • Lindsay Turner

Review: Tracer

By Richard Greenfield.

  • Haines Eason

Poet’s Sampler: Arlo Quint

  • Arlo Quint
  • Anselm Berrigan
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