Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

The Attention Lesson

  • P. F. Potvin

Zombie Sunday

  • Joshua Bell

A Quick One Before I Go (November 14)

  • David Lehman

Becoming Literature

James Merrill's poetry of autobiography and social comedy.

  • Stephanie Burt

Reading Gjertrud Schnackenberg

The Throne of Labdacus and Supernatural Love.

  • Christina Davis

Review: Revenants

By Mark Nowak.

  • Alan Gilbert

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Review: Comp.

By Kevin Davies.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Review: Clarvoe, Doris, Klink

A second book of poems and two debut collections.

  • Laura Sims

Microreviews: Summer 2001

Nine new poetry collections.

Poet’s Sampler: Sam Truitt

Introduced by C. D. Wright

  • Sam Truitt

An Inner Life for Dummies

  • Lisa Beskin

One for the Guys

  • Liam Rector

Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

  • Peter Gizzi

Butter and Eggs

  • Harry Matthews

Genius Made

  • Corinna Vallianatos

Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil

  • Peter Gizzi

Review: The Beforelife

By Franz Wright.

  • Ethan Paquin

“Let the World be a Black Poem”

On The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry.

  • Tina Barr

Review: The Promises of Glass

By Michael Palmer.

  • Andrew Zawacki

Review: Letters to Wendy’s

By Joe Wenderoth. 

  • John D’Agata

Microreviews: April/May 2001

Seven new poetry collections.

The Dream Salon

  • Katherine Soniat

Sonnet

  • Charles North

Wild Goose Chase

  • Sarah Manguso
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