Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

So

  • Hank Lazer

Self-Portrait as Shedding

  • Carey McHugh

Self-Portait as Seismograph

  • Cecily Parks

The Brain’s Tent

Lynette Robert’s Collected Poems.

  • John Wilkinson

ZONED

The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover.

  • John Palattella

Virgil’s Cow

  • Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

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Dr. Death

  • Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

Here

  • Hank Lazer

Make It New

Poetry collections from independent presses.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Microreview: The Poems of Anna Margolin

The first English translation of the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin’s single volume, Lider.

  • J.D. Nordell

Coup-de-Soleil

  • Cate Marvin

Microreview: Joshua Beckman, Shake

Poems that investigate the notion of the world as good.

  • Kerri Webster

Microreview: Arthur Sze, Quipu

Poems that capture the world’s manifold facts one by one.

  • Brian Teare

Seduced

American Poets of the New Century.

  • Katie Peterson

You and Me

  • Tom Thompson

Microreview: Aaron Kunin, Folding Ruler Star

Poems that investigate shame.

  • Nicholas Bredie

Microreview: Arielle Greenberg, My Kafka Century

Poems that bristle with matter-of-fact strangeness.

  • Raymond McDaniel

An Underworldliness

for Aileen Winter Mostel

  • Heather McHugh

Theatre

  • Mei Underhill

Microreview: Linda Gregg, In the Middle Distance

Poems that deal with the memory-occupied ground somewhere between the past and the present. 

  • Dargie Anderson

Peyote

  • Liam Rector

Science into Poetry

On Raymond Queneau.

  • Marjorie Welish

Wild By Nature

Meteroic Flowers by Elizabeth Willis.

  • Stefania Heim

Microreview: Craig Dworkin, Strand

Poems that ask the reader to reconsider if not abandon the notion of authorship.

  • James Wagner
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