Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Chamber Heart

  • Andrew Shields
  • Anne Duden

A Poet’s Hope

  • Marjorie Perloff

Site

  • John Kinsella

Eighth Annual Poetry Contest

This year’s winner: Mike Perrow

  • Mike Perrow
  • Mark Strand

The Circle of the Fifths

  • Catherine Meng

A Set Piece

  • Jesse Ball

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Endless Topic

  • Richard Meier

Composite after Three Poems in the Same Anthology

  • Rafael Campo

Waste Capital

  • Giles Goodland

Double Sonnet

  • Dara Wier

Chamber Heart

  • Anne Duden
  • Andrew Shields

Site

  • John Kinsella

Pliny I & II

  • Dan Chiasson

I Know of No Better World

  • Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Peter Filkins

I Wanted the Screen Door of Summer

Opening sounds of blackbirds everywhere
everywhere in the day lost in sun

  • Peter Gizzi

“There Is a Star in the Sea”

  • Dan Chiasson

Poet’s Sampler: Charlotte Boulay

  • Charlotte Boulay
  • Thomas Lynch

Two Sonnets

  • Karen Volkman

The Quest

  • Peter Gizzi

The Caedmon Room

  • Allen Grossman

Microreview: C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

  • Brian Teare

Microreview: James Longenbach, The Resistance to Poetry

  • Robert Schnall

Microreviews: Marjorie Perloff, Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

  • Joshua Corey

Microreview: Jordon Davis and Sarah Manguso, Free Radicals

  • Rusty Morrison
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