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The Sound Tomorrow Cannot Make

Alan Felsenhal’s striking debut collection, Lowly, achieves something like early modern surrealism.

Rob Crawford

Poetry

Toward a New Antipastoral

Vievee Francis's sensuously lyrical poetry, written against a backdrop of ecopolitical crisis, is wild for survival.

Liz Bowen

Poetry

What Is Called Freedom Is a Frozen Freedom

Hackers, the Swedish poet Aase Berg's latest collection, depicts the feeling of late capitalism.

Marty Cain

Poetry

Fall Poetry Microreviews

New poetry from Andre Bradley, Barbara Claire Freeman, Maureen N. McLane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Amy King.

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Poetry

This Is Uncorrected Proof

Morgan Parker's intimate poems complicate the public discourse on black women.

Emilia Phillips

Poetry

In Memoriam: John Ashbery

We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication​,​ and grace.

Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, Stefania Heim

Poetry

John Ashbery: Staying, in Motion

Remembering John Ashbery

Marjorie Perloff

Poetry

Who Cares What the Future Brings

Mónica de la Torre’s new book, The Happy End / All Welcome, is expansive, inventive, and often hilarious.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis

Poetry

Frank Bidart's Mirror

The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Heather Treseler

Poetry

Scriptorium

On the poetry of Melissa Range.

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry

Curating Resurrection

Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.

Stephen Collis

Poetry

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Alan Gilbert

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