Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Lastingness

How growing old shapes aesthetic vision.

  • Nicholas Delbanco

Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah

With Frederick Seidel, some readers will recoil. Others will be seduced by a voice that finds its power in accumulated detail.

  • Celia Bland

Fault Lines

Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw and Sarah Manguso’s Siste Viator.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Capital Truths

A review of Giles Goodland's new collection.

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Microreview: Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf

A collection of free sonnets.

  • Charlie Clark

Microreview: Aaron Belz, The Bird Hoverer

Impressive, loopy poems.

  • Tony Trigilio

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Microreview: Inger Christensen, it

A collection something like a 237-page logic puzzle.

  • Rebecca Porte

Microreview: Anna Rabinowitz, The Wanton Sublime

Poems that attempt to define and redefine the Virgin Mary.

  • Rob Schlegel

Evening Apparition

  • James McCorkle

In Search of John Ashbery

Beyond the same old pipings.

  • Forrest Gander

Prisoners’ Poems

Captivity by Laurie Sheck.

  • G.C. Waldrep

Light and Twilight

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

  • Karen Volkman

Gravity and Fire

The Outernationale by Peter Gizzi.

  • John Palattella

Oracle

The Queen's Dissertion by Carol Frost.

  • Garth Greenwell

Acts of Mind

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer.

  • Katie Peterson

Microreview: Cole Swensen, The Book of a Hundred Hands

100 poems on the human hand, from its prehistory to its depiction in contemporary painting.

  • Rob Schlegel

Microreview: Tom Thompson, The Pitch

Selling is the mode in which this collection operates.

  • Samuel Amadon

Microreview: Jane Yeh, Marabou

An impressive first collection.

  • Jennifer Chang

Microreview: Dean Young, Embryoyo

Poems that ricochet like pinballs with their own eclectic brand of kinesis.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Nathaniel Bellows, Why Speak?

Poems full of wide-eyed candor of both the marvelous and the grotesque.

  • Kathryn Crim

Boom Kiss Booom Boom Kiss

  • David Lau

Into the Language Lab

Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr's Poetry and Pedagogy.

  • BK Fischer

Grand Failure

Hart Crane's Poems and Letters.

  • Calvin Bedient

A Measure of Splendor

The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 

  • Victoria Chang
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