Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Les Livres

  • Nadia Herman Colburn

This Is a Recording

  • Jonah Winter

Poet’s Sampler: Karla Kelsey

Introduced by Bin Ramke

  • Karla Kelsey

from The Face

  • David St. John

All About Her Mother

The Midnight by Susan Howe. 

  • John Palattella

Simic’s Peregrinations

Reading The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems.

  • Benjamin Paloff

Sign up for our newsletter

Like Theseus through the Maze

The Soldiers of Year II by Medbh McGuckian. 

  • Jenny Ludwig

Microreviews: December 2003/January 2004

Six new collections of poetry.

Cougar

  • Sophie Cabot Black

The Art of Autobiography

  • Devin Johnston

Poet’s Sampler: Brett Fletcher Lauer

Introduced by Matthew Rohrer

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer

Arrange Me, Mysterious Men

  • Ida McCall

Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis

  • Paul Naylor

Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers

  • Paul Naylor

Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands

  • Bin Ramke

Les Corbeaux

  • Arthur Rimbaud

Tuesday Night

  • Sam White

An Audit by the Patio

  • Michelle J. Boese

Requiem

  • Angie Estes

Poet’s Sampler: Josey Foo

Introduced by Arthur Sze

  • Josey Foo

Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom

  • Carl Phillips

Mastery

  • Carl Phillips

from REAL

  • Stephen Ratcliffe

Searching for Anne’s Grave

(from Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse)

  • David Trinidad
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe