Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Called Into Being

Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven.
 

  • Richard Deming

Slumming

Daniel Tiffany’s "Infidel Poetics"

  • Joyelle McSweeney

The Other Mother Tongue

On The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.

  • Michael Scharf

Review: The Arrival

By Daniel Simko.

  • Elizabeth Gramm

Review: Practical Water

By Brenda Hillman.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Review: Restoration

By Christina Pugh.

  • Sumita Chakraborty

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Review: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

By Robert Henryson.

  • Dave Lucas

Review: Close Calls with Nonsense

By Stephen Burt.

  • Jason Tandon

Review: Petals of Zero, Petals of One

By Andrew Zawacki.

  • Zach Savich

Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

  • Tess Taylor

Know-How

H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet

  • Troy Jollimore

Restless

On the poetry of Carl Phillips.

  • Katie Peterson

Review: The All-Purpose Magical Tent

By Lytton Smith.

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff

Review: Star in the Eye

By James Shea.

  • Nick Admussen

Review: Sophie Robinson’s a

A poetry collection that feels both peculiarly allusive and particular.

  • Cristiana Baik

Review: Stupid Hope

By Jason Shinder.

  • Robert Schnall

Smothered to Smithereens

The poetics of motherhood

  • Stephanie Burt

Lord, Hear My Voice

Bin Ramke has a dedicated readership, but it is not a particularly large one. His work is probably too strange, too difficult, and too huddled around a particular vision of the self and the world to appeal to a broad audience.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Microreview: Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs

Re-imagining the poet as detective and philosopher in one. 

  • Mara Pastor

Review: Zero Readership

By Filip Marinovich.

  • Zach Savich

Review: Days of Unwilling

By Cal Bedient.

  • Samuel Amadon

Review: Skirmish

By Dobby Gibson.

  • Elisabeth Divis

Review: Word Comix

By Charlie Smith.

  • Elizabeth Gramm

Review: Self-Portrait with Crayon

By Allison Benis White.

  • Victoria Chang
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