Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Hotel Eidetic

Hotel Voluptuary

Hotel Famish

Ten Questions for Mona

From one light to another

Holiday à la Carte

Review: Torn Awake and Such Rich Hour

Two new poetry collections. 

21st-Century Modernism

Pitting so-called postmodernism against modernism has given us a truncated view of literary history.

Review: Eunoia

By Christian Bök.

Review: Zirconia and Miss America

Fence's new book series starts with a bang.

Poet’s Sampler: Curtis Bonney

Introduced by Maxine Chernoff

Not Rome

Holiday à la Carte

Sequel #3

Sequel #17

Exhibit: Leftover Model from the Museum of History

Thermodynamics

Microreviews: Summer 2002

Sixteen new poetry collections.

Where Every Eye’s a Guard

Rae Armantrout's poetry of suspicion.

Seven New Books

From Cathy Park Hong to Andrew Zawacki.

Review: Transfigurations

The collected poems of Jay Wright.

Three Irish Poets

Revieing Carson, Muldoon, and Murphy.

Microreviews: April/May 2002

Seventeen new poetry collections.

Grand Cascade

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