Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

From Jim-Crow to “Color-Blind” Poetics

Race and the So-Called Avant-Garde

  • Dorothy Wang

Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

The aestheticization of the term avant-garde is a refusal to think what the alienation of human being in the modern era was made of.

  • David Marriott

Microreview: Rob Schlegel, January Machine

  • Jeff Alessandrelli

Microreview: Martha Silano, Reckless Lovely

Poems that begin with a bang.

  • Lisa K. Perdigao

“Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

W. H. Auden’s struggle with politics.

  • Robert Huddleston

Microreview: Maureen McLane, This Blue

  • Robert Schnall

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Poet’s Sampler: Nicholas Shapland

Introduced by Kathleen Ossip

  • Nicholas Shapland

Microreview: Sawako Nakayasu, The Ants

Poems that make a tiny insect the center of the world. 

  • Jennifer Kronovet

Get Lost

Caroline Bergvall's Drift.

  • Dana Levin

Microreview: Dodie Bellamy, The TV Sutras

Television as aphorism.

  • Iris Cushing

Death Mask

On Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Out of the Body

Mark Wunderlich’s The Earth Avails

  • Michael Klein

The Flame in the Grate

Uche Nduka's Surrealism 

  • Joyelle McSweeney

Disassembling a Handgun

The technical challenge of translation.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Jane Miller, Thunderbird

  • Alexandria Peary

Poems About Poems

  • Stephanie Burt

On Pablo Neruda and Autism

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.

  • Jessica Sequeira

Alive Knowing Death

Dorothea Lasky’s Rome.

  • Thomas Cook

Microreview: Frances Justine Post, Beast

  • Kay Cosgrove

A Bit of Proust

Anne Carson's The Albertine Workout.

  • Benjamin Landry

Microreview: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box

Poems to make music to.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

Dear Friend,

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn, and Robert Creeley

  • Alan Gilbert

The Doors of Perception

An interview with poet Daniel Nadler.

  • Timothy Donnelly

Of Fishiness, Flesh, and the Radical Undead

  • Jennifer Scappettone
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