Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Yellow Balloon Rising

  • Edward Bartók-Barata

an animal meant

  • Carol Ciavonne

Poem in the Manner of Friedrich Hölderlin

  • David Lehman

Poem in the Manner of Wallace Stevens as Rewritten by Gertrude Stein

  • David Lehman

Dislocations: Seven Scenarios

  • Adrienne Rich

how music is supposed to be

  • Carol Ciavonne

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Immediately Thinking

  • Steve Willard

Poet’s Sampler: Gregg Biglieri

Introduced by Craig Dworkin

  • Gregg Biglieri

The Tanker Never Moves

  • Terese Svoboda

The People’s Poetry

National Poetry Month, without lament.

  • Hank Lazer

Pound Ascendant

New collections of Ezra Pound’s poetry. 

  • Marjorie Perloff

The Fugitive

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics.

  • John Hulsey

Radical Pastoral

Review: Selected and New Poems from John Kinsella.

  • Emily Apter

Nightspot

  • Daniel Tiffany

Poet’s Sampler: Toni Burge

Introduced by David St. John

  • Toni Burge

He Paves the Road with Iron Bars

  • Caroline Knox

Seasonal

  • Shannon Welch

A Knot of Obsessions

The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes.

  • Carol Bere

Fellow Travelers

Fanny Howe's Gone.

  • Karen Volkman

Their Kind of Town

New collections from young American poets.

  • Stephanie Burt

Microreviews: February/March 2004

Seven new publications.

Microscopic Winter I

  • Cynthia Cruz

Microscopic Winter II

  • Cynthia Cruz

Aqueous Gold

  • Arthur Sze
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