Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

A Sudden Rain in the Green Mountains

  • Stephanie Burt

Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.

  • Joanna Klink

The snow was the future perfect of snow

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Counting the Forests

  • Mark Levine

The Sound of Music

  • Lisa Beskin

Review: Appalachia

By Charles Wright.

  • James Longenbach

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Review: On a Stair

By Ann Lauterbach.

  • Andrew Osborn

Review: Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson.

  • Elizabeth Macklin

Review: Powell, Ramsdell, Truitt

Reading three first books of poems.

  • Bin Ramke

Microreviews

Eight new poetry collections. 

Poet’s Sampler: Brenda Shaughnessy

Introduced by Richard Howard

  • Brenda Shaughnessy

Jersey City Palms

  • Gilbert Sorrentino

Dearth Demise

  • Bill Knott

December 14

  • David Lehman

Borrowed Love Poems

  • John Yau

Dorothea Tanning’s “Cousins”

  • Richard Howard

St. Ursula’s Origin

  • Barbara Claire Freeman

January 1

  • David Lehman

Getting Off Work

  • Franz Wright

Review: Life and Death

By Robert Creeley.

  • Forrest Gander

Review: Poems for the Millennium

From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude.

  • John Palattella

Review: Last Chance for Tarzan to Holler

By Thylias Moss.

  • Joel Brouwer

Review: For a Modest God

New and Selected Poems from Eric Ormsby.

  • David Yezzi

Microreviews: October/November 1998

Eight new poetry collections. 

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