Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

The Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Karri Harrison

Deconstructing Stefan, or Destructing Stefan

  • Emma Straub

At first you don’t succeed

  • Steven Monte

Happy Jack’s on Our Saturday Morning

  • Elizabeth Macklin

The Definite Article

  • Elizabeth Macklin

Rainbows

  • Jesper Svenbro

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Saint-Merri

  • Jesper Svenbro

Review: Hay

By Paul Muldoon.

  • Stephanie Burt

Review: Thieves of Paradise

By Yusef Komunyakaa.

  • Kevin Young

Review: Green Sees Things in Waves

By August Kleinzahler.

  • Will Broaddus

Review: Poetry On and Off the Page

By Marjorie Perloff.

  • Michael Davidson

Poet’s Sampler: Tan Lin

Introduced by Charles Bernstein

  • Tan Lin

Censorship

  • Lee Upton

[because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup]

  • D. A. Powell

No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout

  • Calvin Bedient

Ghazal

  • Agha Shahid Ali

Getting Out (15)

  • Robert Lietz

SHAZAM!

  • Allen Grossman

Review: Gander and Revell

These two exceptional new books by two of our finest contemporary poets both articulate loss and renewal.

  • Tod Marshall

Review: The Triumph of Love

By Geoffrey Hill.

  • Andrew Zawacki

Review: The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By Helen Vendler.

  • Matthea Harvey

Microreviews: February/March 1999

Eight new poetry collections.

Channel

  • Peter Sacks

Election

  • Peter Sacks
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