Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Berryman’s Bones

  • Jeremy Glazier

Beyond Vanilla

A review of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry.

  • Stephanie Burt

Review: If in Time

Selected Poems 1975–2000 from Ann Lauterbach.

  • Thomas Fink

Review: Paradise & Method and The Language of Inquiry

Two very different strands of Language writing. 

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Microreviews: December 2001/January 2002

Ten new poetry collections.

Poet’s Sampler: Catherine Wagner

Introduced by Rae Armantrout

  • Catherine Wagner

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Sound and Sentience

  • Nathaniel Mackey

From the Book of the Boot

  • Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Fortune Cookies

  • Dorothea Tanning

Of a Pressing Nature

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Ascension Provisos 1–5

  • Andrew Zawacki

Boundary Fencing and Telstra Wire

  • Coral Hull

Head

  • Peter Sacks

Press Conference (January 9)

  • David Lehman

Reading Frederick Seidel 

The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth.

  • Calvin Bedient

Review: How to Do Things with Tears

By Allen Grossman.

  • James Longenbach

Review: Carson, Fulton, Rankine

Poetic experiments in three mid-career books.

  • BK Fischer

Microreviews: October/November 2001

Ten new poetry collections. 

Fourth Annual Poetry Contest Winner: D. A. Powell

Introduced by Carl Phillips

  • D. A. Powell

Poet’s Sampler: Robert Fitterman

Introduced by Bruce Andrews

  • Robert Fitterman

Right down to the melody of rain…

  • Karen Zusman

Sonnet Macaronic

  • Jennifer Scappettone

Seaweeds

  • Laurie Sheck

Toward Lethargy: A Solo for One Vice

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer
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