Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Root Work

Nathaniel Mackey's Blue Fasa

  • Michael Leong

Work This Thing

Two new books by Fred Moten

  • Elizabeth Willis

Everyday Apocalypse

Ansel Elkins's Blue Yodel

  • Olivia Schwob

The Carbon Cycle

Kathleen Ossip's The Do-Over

  • Martha Silano

Translation: The Mangled Braid

Translation is always other than its original: even if it is unimpeachably faithful, a translated story will feel and act differently in a new language.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Samantha Giles, Deadfalls and Snares

  • Anna Moschovakis

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“The Pants of Time”

Reading the poems of Duncan McNaughton.

  • Benjamin Hollander

Microreview: Tarfia Faizullah, Seam

Giving rape survivors a voice.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

An Extra Life

Jorie Graham's From the New World

  • Katie Peterson

Microreview: Aaron Kunin, Cold Genius

  • Daniel Tiffany

“Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners

  • Jessica Fjeld
  • Jenny George
  • Margaret Reges
  • Kit Schluter

“Purity” and the “Avant-Garde”

I am sick of the term “avant-garde.”

  • John Yau

A Freedom in Being Minor

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews John Gallaher

  • John Gallaher
  • Jeff Alessandrelli

Can a Poem Listen?

Variations on Being-White

  • Ailish Hopper

Eight Essays on the Face

Frida Kahlo, Manet’s Olympia, and more. 

  • Virginia Konchan

High Wire Acts

Speaking of Sonnets with Sandra Simonds, Michael Robbins, and Noelle Kocot

  • BK Fischer

Three Poems

  • Logan Fry

Man Made Out of Words, Part Two

Part Two of  Mark Strand's Last Interview

  • Adam Fitzgerald

Man Made Out of Words

Part One of Mark Strand's Last Interview

  • Adam Fitzgerald

The Sweet and Angry Music of Amiri Baraka

On SOS: Poems, 1961­–2013.

  • William J. Harris

Cold Comfort

Three new books thread feminist impulses through narratives of precarity and desolation.

  • Natalie Shapero

Microreview: TJ Jarrett, Zion

  • Heather Treseler

Microreview: CAConrad, Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

  • Charles Legere

Unruly Thoughts

Kimiko Hahn's Brain Fever

  • Benjamin Landry
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