Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Poet’s Sampler: Melanie Cooley

  • Melanie Cooley

Kansas in Verse

  • Joanne Straley

Poetry Is Poetry

On John Ashbery.

  • James Longenbach

Pride

  • Sally Dawidoff

The Ill–Tempered Clavier

  • Benjamin Paloff

from “A Palace of Pearls”

  • Jane Miller

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Poet’s Sampler: Dorothea Lasky

  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Joshua Beckman

The Witness Takes a Stand

June Jordan wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely “as” or “for.”

  • Adrienne Rich

The Premises of Grass

  • Eugene Ostashevsky

The Origin of the Specious

  • Eugene Ostashevsky

RSVP

  • Debora Kuan

Underground Mausoleum

  • Kevin Prufer

Testament

  • Gustaf Sobin

Civic Pride

  • Sarah Manguso

Sunday Afternoon

  • Stephen Berg

Cloud of Witnesses

  • G.C. Waldrep

Corridor

  • Honor Moore

Disparu

  • Honor Moore

No Dream

  • James Longenbach

Love Poem

  • Danielle Pieratti

saints & or: notes in the form of sonnets (millay effects)

  • Michael Farrell

Poet’s Sampler: Stacy Szymaszek

  • Stacy Szymaszek
  • Lisa Jarnot

Strange Relations

Jesse Ball’s March Book, Spencer Reece’s The Clerk’s Tale, and Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Visitors

  • DeSales Harrison

An Unillusioned Life

The Collected Poems of Donald Justice.

  • Stephanie Burt
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