Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

First Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Daniel Bosch

Selected and introduced by Jane Miller

  • Daniel Bosch

Poet’s Sampler: Lee Ann Brown

Introduced by Elaine Equi

  • Lee Ann Brown

Housefire

  • Miranda Field

Autumn Song

  • Charles Baudelaire

The Farmers of Good Dirt

  • Mary Crockett Hill

From a Vacant House

  • Mark Wunderlich

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Review: Szymborska

Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997.

  • Frances Padorr Brent

Review: Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

Edited by Bonnie Costello.

  • Kay Ryan

Review: Smokes

By Susan Wheeler.

  • Stephanie Burt

Microreviews: Summer 1998

Seven new poetry collections. 

Poet’s Sampler: Benjamin Friedlander

Introduced by Robert Creeley

  • Benjamin Friedlander

“The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration”

  • Alfred Corn

Helen

  • Anne Carson

Victory Must Be a Supremely Glorious Experience Said a Woman to the Duke of Wellington

  • Anne Carson

Homage to My Waitress

  • Matthew Rohrer

Paper Sacrifice

  • Karen Drayne

by bicycle

  • Matthea Harvey

Isla Mujeres

  • Mark Bibbins

Marjorie Perloff Replies

  • Marjorie Perloff

Dear Editor

  • Arthur Vogelsang

Displacements

  • Juliana Chang
  • Walter K. Lew
  • Tan Lin
  • Eileen Tabios
  • John Yau

Bring Back Excellence

  • Greg Glazner
  • Jon Davis

Three Footnotes

  • Eliot Weinberger

What Is “Authentic”?

  • John Bradley
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