Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

World Tumbling Into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.

  • BK Fischer

Review: Chronic

By D.A. Powell.

  • Lindsay Turner

A Distant Pleasure

New translations of C.P. Cavafy.

  • Keith Taylor

Review: The Ghost Soldiers

By James Tate.

  • Virginia Konchan

Review: Pacific Shooter

By Susan Parr. 

  • Raymond McDaniel

Review: Sight Map

By Brian Teare.

  • Rob Schlegel

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The Pale Side of the Leaves

  • D. Nurkse

Review: Body Clock

By Eleni Sikelianos.

  • W. Scott Cheney

Poet’s Sampler: Broc Rossell

  • Broc Rossell
  • Dan Beachy-Quick

Leap Into Light

  • Robert Huddleston

Review: The Isle of the Signatories

By Marjorie Welish.

  • Christopher Schmidt

Review: FAQ:

By Ben Doller.

  • Noah Eli Gordon

Microreview: Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay

The final say of a poet who always spoke at the edges of the sayable.

  • Zack Finch

Review: Micrographia

By Emily Wilson.

  • Katie Peterson

Review: The Incentive of the Maggot

By Ron Slate.

  • Susan Barba

Exchange Rate

Poetry in translation takes off.

  • Jordan Davis

Big Talkers

Frederick Seidel’s and Bernadette Mayer’s poetic monologues.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Double Gesture

Poetry in translation rarely gets much of a hearing in America, and Swedish poetry fares even worse.

  • Robert Archambeau

Review: The Winter Sun

By Fanny Howe.

  • Amelia Klein

Review: Assorted Poems

By Susan Wheeler.

  • Michael Lindgren

Review: Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse

By Darcie Dennigan.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Review: The Scattered Papers of Penelope

By Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke.

  • Keith Taylor

Review: My Soviet Union

By Michael Dumanis.

  • Andy Frazee

Review: King of a Hundred Horsemen

By Marie Étienne.

  • Lindsay Turner
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