Tag: 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.

Emily Wolahan

In Memoriam: Lucie Brock-Broido

Of the many words that might describe Lucie Brock-Broido, the most appropriate is extraordinary.

Mary Jo Bang

Introducing “What Nature”

The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.

Stefania Heim, BK Fischer, Timothy Donnelly

Glowing with Absence and Merchandise

Harmony Holiday's new book, Hollywood Forever, is a warehouse of quotidian pleasures and horrors.

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Public Intimacies

A posthumous collection of Joanne Kyger’s writing has the feel of a scrapbook with the weight of literary history.

Cassandra Cleghorn

Border Lyrics

In daring new translations of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters and Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea, linguistic playfulness and political acuity overlap in breathtaking ways.

Henk Rossouw

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.

Boston Review

A Body of Shifting Resilience

In Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Telepathologies, witnessing black death becomes an everyday thing.

Megan Fernandes

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.

Ryo Yamaguchi

Savage Vistas

Lynn Melnick's jagged poems interrogate rape culture to reveal the absurdity of misogyny.

Calista McRae

Delightful Homelands

In Kaveh Akbar's debut collection, language is not only a homeland, it is also displacement.

Claire Schwartz

Broken Fairytales

Two recent books, works of collage and fragmented biography, bring Czech masterworks to new readers.

Marcela Sulak

The Sound Tomorrow Cannot Make

Alan Felsenhal’s striking debut collection, Lowly, achieves something like early modern surrealism.

Rob Crawford

Toward a New Antipastoral

Vievee Francis's sensuously lyrical poetry, written against a backdrop of ecopolitical crisis, is wild for survival.

Liz Bowen

What Is Called Freedom Is a Frozen Freedom

Hackers, the Swedish poet Aase Berg's latest collection, depicts the feeling of late capitalism.

Marty Cain

Fall Poetry Microreviews

New poetry from Andre Bradley, Barbara Claire Freeman, Maureen N. McLane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Amy King.

Boston Review

This Is Uncorrected Proof

Morgan Parker's intimate poems complicate the public discourse on black women.

Emilia Phillips

John Ashbery: Staying, in Motion

Remembering John Ashbery.

Marjorie Perloff

In Memoriam: John Ashbery

We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication, and grace.

Stefania Heim, BK Fischer, Timothy Donnelly

Who Cares What the Future Brings

Mónica de la Torre’s new book, The Happy End / All Welcome, is expansive, inventive, and often hilarious.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis

Frank Bidart’s Mirror

The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Heather Treseler

Scriptorium

On the poetry of Melissa Range.

Cat Fitzpatrick

Curating Resurrection

Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.

Stephen Collis

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Alan Gilbert