Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Sonnet

Karen Volkman

Sonnet

Karen Volkman

The Debtor in the Convex Mirror

Winner of the Sixth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest

Susan Wheeler

Two White Americans

Poetry that looks at the acidic and the absurd in American culture.

Paul Killebrew

Say Goodbye to Everything

Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché.

John Palattella

Back to Jarrell

Stephen Burt 's Randall Jarrell and His Age.

Jacques Khalip

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Microreviews: Oct/Nov 2003

Eight new collections of poetry.

The Flame Tree of Freedom: Poetry and Apartheid

Peter Anderson

Time

Nikolai Zabolotsky

When I’m speaking, I’m not crying

Susan Stewart

When I’m crying, I’m not speaking

Susan Stewart

They’re Putting a New Door In

Brian Kim Stefans

Poet’s Sampler: Cristina Rivera-Garza

Introduced by Lynn Emanuel

Cristina Rivera-Garza

Plus Appetite

Frances Richard

from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Cornel West makes the point that hope is different from American optimism. After the initial presidential election results come in, I stop watching the news.

Claudia Rankine

Gin

Joe Millar

Direction

Aaron Belz

Microreviews: Summer 2003

Nine new poetry collections.

Bleeding, Beading, Trickling

Spar by Karen Volkman.

Noah Eli Gordon

Venus Becomes a Document

Talking Cures by Richard Howard.

BK Fischer

As If Washing Might Make It Clean

Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel.

Jenny Ludwig

The Unfinishable Robert Lowell

Opening a window onto the life of a great American poet.

James Longenbach

City Poems

Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project.

Maureen N. McLane

New Poets on the Block

A roundup of first and second books.

Stephanie Burt

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