Poetry
Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.
Where Islands End and Begin
Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [lukao] is a personal document of witness, shelter, history, and hope.
In Memoriam: Lucie Brock-Broido
Of the many words that might describe Lucie Brock-Broido, the most appropriate is extraordinary.
Introducing “What Nature”
The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.
Glowing with Absence and Merchandise
Harmony Holiday's new book, Hollywood Forever, is a warehouse of quotidian pleasures and horrors.
Our Top 25 Poems of 2017
The poets on this list offer not answers or remedies but instants, instantiations of the power of the lived word as it unfolds for readers in real time.
A Body of Shifting Resilience
In Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Telepathologies, witnessing black death becomes an everyday thing.
An Autobiography of Captivity
Shane McCrae's new book, a finalist for the National Book Award, is an astonishingly precise account of a complex emotional past.
Savage Vistas
Lynn Melnick's jagged poems interrogate rape culture to reveal the absurdity of misogyny.
Delightful Homelands
In Kaveh Akbar’s debut collection, language is not only a homeland; it is also displacement.
Broken Fairytales
Two recent books, works of collage and fragmented biography, bring Czech masterworks to new readers.
The Sound Tomorrow Cannot Make
Alan Felsenhal’s striking debut collection, Lowly, achieves something like early modern surrealism.
Toward a New Antipastoral
Vievee Francis's sensuously lyrical poetry, written against a backdrop of ecopolitical crisis, is wild for survival.
What Is Called Freedom Is a Frozen Freedom
Hackers, the Swedish poet Aase Berg's latest collection, depicts the feeling of late capitalism.
Fall Poetry Microreviews
New poetry from Andre Bradley, Barbara Claire Freeman, Maureen N. McLane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Amy King.
This Is Uncorrected Proof
Morgan Parker's intimate poems complicate the public discourse on black women.
In Memoriam: John Ashbery
We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication, and grace.
Who Cares What the Future Brings
Mónica de la Torre’s new book, The Happy End / All Welcome, is expansive, inventive, and often hilarious.
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