Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words.

  • Colin Dayan

The Crucified Hand

Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Microreview: Peter Waldor, Door to a Noisy Room

Lyrical meditations on familial love, religious tales, and morality.

  • Nicholas Harp

Microreview: Janet McAdams, Feral

Poems that deal smartly with questions of what we lose by learning.

  • Sean Norton

Review: Tendril

By Bin Ramke.

  • Daniel Tiffany

Microreview: Stephen Burt, The Forms of Youth.

20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence.

  • Robert Archambeau

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Microreview: Elizabeth Reddin, The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure

Poems that trace the relationship between knowing and confessing. 

  • Stephanie Anderson

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky

  • Marjorie Perloff

Free verse

Counter-Revolution of the Word:The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960.

  • Charles Bernstein

Landmarks

Two collections by Kathleen Jamie.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Rae Armantrout, Next Life

Poetics of dilemma.

  • Thomas Hummel

Microreview: Brenda Coultas, The Marvelous Bones of Time

Poems preoccupied with ephemeral, numinous features of human experience and the concrete objects that bear their residues.

  • Aaron McCollough

Microreview: Carson Cistulli, Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated

Cistulli embraces his status as the bastard child of pop culture and the poetic tradition.

  • Nicholas Bredie

Microreview: César Vallejo, The Complete Poetry

The iconic Peruvian poet.

  • Tanya Larkin

Microreview: Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft

A book about seeking, though for just what is never wholly clear.

  • Amelia Klein

Interview under Hypnosis

  • Jennifer Militello

This Ecstatic Nation

Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11

  • Maureen N. McLane

Ghosts

Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract

  • Andrew Zawacki

The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania

  • Erin Belieu

Microreview: Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire

A collection that reveals a bizzaro America.

  • Travis Nichols

Microreview: Jon Woodward, Rain

Poems that begin with the unexceptional and arrive at something transcendent.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Microreview: Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets

151 sonnets about motherhood.

  • Cecily Parks

Microreview: Peter Conners, Of Whiskey and Winter

Prose poems with affection for the unbeautiful. 

  • Nicholas Harp

Microreview: Benjamin Friedlander, The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes

Bringing together Friedlander’s unpublished works.

  • Aaron McCollough
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