Poetry
Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.
How the Cinder Bears the Seed
Susan Stewart's new poetry collection questions the power and potential of her own art.
Exit Text: Rumors and Ghosts
The Book of Disquiet performs something like a literary vanishing point.
Winter Poetry Reading
New poetry from Molly Bendall, Dana Levin, Simone White, Anna Moschovakis, and Elaine Equi.
On the Poetry of Institutional Violence
The anonymous collective BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP transmutes voices from the archive into lyric form.
Foreword: Poems for Political Disaster
Introducing a special collection of poetry, published on the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Poems for Political Disaster
Marking a moment of rupture, summoning the collective strength found in the language of poetry.
The Lost Neruda Poems
As questions about Neruda’s death linger, a lost archive of unpublished poems, hidden amongst his notebooks, has surfaced.
Urgent Missives
Since when has poetry been without politics? Benjamin Hollander reviews Out of Print by Julien Poirier.
Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump
No poet captures the feeling of political failure—of having lost an unfair fight—like W. B. Yeats.
Fall Poetry Reading
New poetry from Aracelis Girmay, Magdalena Zurawki, Liu Xia, John Wilkinson, and Ruth Madievsky.
Poet’s Sampler: Analicia Sotelo
Exploring the complexity of being a Latinx woman in contemporary America.
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
Become a Member