Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Zero at the Boner

An interview with Nola Gignere.

  • Carol Muske-Dukes

Some Other Being

An Interview with Brett Fletcher Lauer

  • William Brewer

Microreview: Roger Reeves, King Me

Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.

  • Virginia Konchan

Radical Feeling in the Poetry of World War I

Selections from war poets.

  • Len Gutkin

Nameless Lake: Occupation and the Ear

The violence of the struggle over this place raises many questions that center around the power to speak.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Kevin Young, Book of Hours

Tim Wood reviews Book of Hours, by Kevin Young.

  • Tim Wood

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African Poets’ Sampler

  • Jennifer Franklin

“You have been here some time”: Poetics of Failure and Song

Epanorthosis and song might finally be thought together.

  • Lindsay Turner

A Thousand Labyrinths

Peter Gizzi's In Defense of Nothing

  • Ange Mlinko

Microreview: Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts

Part poetry collection, part essay.

  • Christine Shan Shan Hou

Poet’s Sampler: Marni Ludwig

Introduced by Andrew Zawacki

  • Marni Ludwig
  • Andrew Zawacki

Oli Hazzard’s “Beyonsense”

One of the most exciting and original developments in UK poetry in years.

  • Stephen Ross

Microreview: Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed

The poetry of a flâneuse.

  • Anna Moschovakis

Nation and Body

Julie Carr's Rag

  • Karinne Keithley Syers

Two Travelers

  • James Longenbach

Cheap Signaling

Class conflict and diction in avant-garde poetry

  • Daniel Tiffany

Microreview: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TwERK

The tension between hype and substance. 

  • Mia You

Transcendentalism

  • Reuben Silberman

Looking South to the River (II)

  • Li Hou Zhu

Forget O’Hara

Lonely Christopher’s Death and Disaster Series.

  • Felix Bernstein

Mark Ford and the Real World

Ford helps American readers take pleasure in seeing with fresh eyes a country they know too well to notice.

  • Scott Bartley

Toxicity, Vulnerability, Intimacy

An essay and interview with CM Burroughs

  • Megan Fernandes
  • CM Burroughs

Without Time

The long-awaited Endarkenment collects poems written over a span of thirty years.

  • Samuel Amadon

Microreview: Lisa Olstein, Little Stranger

Poems that hum beneath the ordinary.

  • Benjamin Landry
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