Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

A Small Anatomy of Feeling

  • Anna Rabinowitz

On the Phantom Estate

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Dream Job

  • Matthew Zapruder

Early

  • Mark Levine

Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake

  • Frank Bidart

A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear

  • Shane Book

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Fifteen Minutes

  • Ben Doyle

Poet’s Sampler: F. Daniel Rzicznek

Introduced by Larissa Szporluk

To Classes

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Review: Like Wind Loves a Window

By Andrea Baker.

  • Stefania Heim

Review: The Descent

By Sophie Cabot Black.

  • Robert Schnall

Review: Donald Revell, Pennyweight Windows.

Poems that mine solitary landscapes and mindscapes.

  • Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Review: Dunya Mikhail, The War Works Hard

The first translation of poems by a female Iraqi poet to be published in the United States.

  • Susan Barba

Review: And Then Something Happened

Poems that point outwards toward realities beyond the poem.

  • Heidi Lynn Staples

Grass Psalm

  • Aleš Debeljak
  • Andrew Zawacki

Unnecessary Noise Prohibited

  • C. Durning Carroll

In the Scanner

  • Robley Evans

Keeping Company

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Surrender of Breda

  • Ernest Hilbert

Winter Field

  • Joanna Klink

Poet’s Sampler: Dan Chelotti

  • Dan Chelotti
  • Dara Wier

Borrowed Lines

  • Susan M. Schultz

My Husband Sat Up

  • Caroline Knox

Victim of the Culture of Facelessness

  • Thylias Moss
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