Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Brushfire

  • Quinn Latimer

Notes on Exoticism

  • Angie Yuan

from “Helsinki”

  • Peter Richards

A Waiting Heart

  • Robert Hahn

That Everything’s Inevitable

  • Katy Lederer

Fate

  • Robert Desnos
  • William Kulik

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from “Shy Green Fields”

  • Hugh Steinberg

Talk, Talk, Talk

David Antin's i never knew what time it was.

  • Ernest Larsen

Poet’s Sampler: Jenny Boully

Introduced by Mary Jo Bang

  • Jenny Boully

Extended Play

Elizabeth Bishop's Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box.

  • John Palattella

A Village Journal

  • Sandra Lim

Microreview: Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage

Poems with a playful yet urgent sense of risk.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Microreview: Stephen Paul Miller, Skinny Eighth Avenue

Poems that address politics, current events, theoretical concerns, and personal experience.

  • Barbara K. Fischer

Microreview: Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives

Poems chronicling the lives of everyone the poet had ever come into contact with.

  • Katie Peterson

Microreview: Joe Wenderoth, The Holy Spirit of Life.

Essays for John Ashcroft’s Secret Self.

  • James Wagner

Furniture of the World

  • Kathy Nilsson

Microreview: Hank Lazer, The New Spirit

A crisis in search of resolution through language.

  • Rusty Morrison

A Triumvirate

  • Katy Lederer

from “Letters to Michael”

  • Mark McMorris

Neglected

Samuel Menashe rediscovered.

  • Kurt Brown

A Broken Place

Pieces of Air in the Epic by Brenda Hillman.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

The Light in the Heart

Decreation by Anne Carson.

  • Joyelle McSweeney

Lost

  • Michelle Noteboom

Sonnet

  • Sarah Rosenthal
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