Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Microreview: Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

A remarkable first collection.

  • Nicholas Bredie

Microreview: David Hernandez, Always Danger

Poems that offer a guided tour of the dangers lurking around every corner.

  • Matthew Thorburn

Microreview: Mark Strand, Man and Camel

Poems that play with the high absurd.

  • Charlie Clark

Microreview: Kathy Graber, Correspondence

Poems that move from Heroditus to plastic snap beads, from Kafka to empty storage containers.

  • Tess Taylor

Microreview: Louise Glück, Averno

Poems that challenge the supposed certainty of myths.

  • Zack Finch

The Last Colony

  • Susan Stewart

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Streakiness

  • John Ashbery

The Eden Archives

  • John Isles

Last Laughs

The poems and fiction of Kenneth Koch.

  • Tanya Larkin

Whole New World

On Alice Notley.

  • Brian Teare

Bewitched

Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia.

  • Joyelle McSweeney

Review: biography of water

Poems experimental in form and timeless in rhythm and imagery.

  • Nadia Herman Colburn

Review: Journey to the Lost City

By Jonathan Aaron.

  • Jana Prikryl

Review: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk

By Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Review: Quarantine

Poems that need to be experienced as a whole.

  • Zack Finch

Review: Past Imperfect

By Suzanne Buffam.

  • Sandra Lim

Border Crossings

  • Landis Everson

Revealed

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's I Love Artists.

  • Susan Barba

Microreview: Matt Hart, Who’s Who Vivid/Revelated

Two new collections with a quirky, edgy, original, and endlessly energetic voice.

  • Victoria Chang

Microreview: Stephen Burt, Parallel Play

  • Robert Schnall

Microreview: Daisy Fried, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

Poems with an indie-film aesthetic.

  • Fred Muratori

Microreview: Lidija Dimkovska, Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers

Swaggering and prosey poems that take on the sorrows of love.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Sweet New Style

Lisa Robertson's The Men.

  • Tom Thompson

Microreview: Noelle Kocot, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems

Poems that connect country, borough, and marriage.

  • Sarah Cohen
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