Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

A short narrative in service of plot entitled Proximity of Exposed to Posed

  • Claudia Rankine

For Girls Only

  • Laura Sims

Orpheus Under the Table

  • Liz Waldner

Review: The Father of the Predicaments

By Heather McHugh. 

  • Richard Howard

Review: O Wheel

By Peter Sacks. 

  • Donald Revell

Review: Then, Suddenly—

By Lynn Emanuel. 

  • BK Fischer

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Review: The Character and Polyverse

Two first "full length" volumes. 

  • Brian Lennon

Poet’s Sampler: Joanna Klink

Introduced by Allen Grossman

  • Joanna Klink

Race

  • Elizabeth Alexander

Not a Cloud in the Sky

  • Cort Day

Mouth

  • Cort Day

Stele for Lost Time

  • Charles Bernstein

The Crime

  • Darryl Phelps

Letter to Artaud

  • Tomaž Šalamun

Review: Wake

By Bin Ramke. 

  • Max Winter

Review: Swarm

By Jorie Graham. 

  • Andrew Osborn

Three New Poetry Collections

On Mark Wunderlick, Dana Levin, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

  • Reginald Shepherd

Purgatorio‚ Canto XXIX

  • Dante Alighieri
  • W.S. Merwin

In Defense of Poetry

Put the literature back into literary studies.

  • Marjorie Perloff

Review: Girls on the Run

By John Ashbery. 

  • John D’Agata

Review: Towards the Blanched Alphabets

By Gustaf Sobin.

  • Andrew Zawacki

Review: Trappings

By Richard Howard.

  • Benjamin Ivry

Review: The Last Avant-Garde

By David Lehman.

  • Michael Tyrell

Microreviews: December 1999/January 2000

Eight new poetry collections. 

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