Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Love Letters

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

  • Cecily Parks

Review: Letters to a Stranger

By Thomas James.

  • Tess Taylor

Review: Firefly Under the Tongue

Selected Poems of Coral Bracho.

  • Alan Gilbert

Review: Planets on Tables

By Bonnie Costello.

  • Robert Archambeau

Review: The Cow

By Ariana Reines.

  • Emily Wolahan

Review: The Most of It

By Mary Ruefle.

  • Kathleen Rooney

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Review: Dear Darkness

By Kevin Young.

  • Jason Tandon

Review: Sources

By Devin Johnston.

  • Jordan Davis

Review: The History of Anonymity

By Jennifer Chang.

  • Kristina Marie Darling

Shakur

  • Terrance Hayes

Water Damage

Two new collections challenge lyric's decorum.

  • Amelia Klein

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.

  • Brian Teare

Review: The Monster Loves his Labyrinth and That Little Something

Two new books by Charles Simic.

  • Nicholas Harp

Review: Bad Bad

By Chelsey Minnis.

  • Sasha Steensen

Review: Fall

By Amy Newman.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

Review: Brenda Is in the Room

By Craig Morgan Teicher.

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff

Listening to Poetry

Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me.

  • Zack Finch

Wanderer

Jay Wright’s The Presentable Art of Reading Absence and Polynomials and Pollen

  • Aaron McCollough

Microreview: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy

 Sixty-four lyrics written in the year following the death of Bang's son.

  • Robert Schnall

Microreview: Lisa Samuels, The Invention of Culture

Poetry honeycombed with questions, doubts, promises.

  • Fred Muratori

Microreview: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple

One of the leading voices in contemporary American poetry. 

  • Andy Frazee

Microreview: Rusty Morrison, The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story

A book-length meditation on the death of Morrison's father.

  • Rebecca Porte

Microreview: Sabra Loomis, House Held Together by Winds

Poems told by a little girl who exposes her dominating relatives.

  • Celia Bland

Poets and the People

Reflections on solidarity during wartime.

  • Robert von Hallberg
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