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BK Fischer

BK Fischer was poetry editor at Boston Review. She is the author of St. Rage’s Vault, winner of the 2012 Washington Prize; Mutiny Gallery, winner of the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize; and Museum Mediations, a critical study. She teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.

Articles

Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan
The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.
Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, Stefania Heim
We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication​,​ and grace.
Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, Stefania Heim
BK Fischer

Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric

BK Fischer

On Mary Ruefle's Trances of the Blast

BK Fischer

"The success of this hybrid form seems to me to lie in its recognition, and reminder, that our thoughts don’t stay put in disciplinary compartments."

BK Fischer

Barbara Fischer discusses gender and gendered thinking in poetry with three fellow poetesses.

BK Fischer

The erotic sublime is a species of paradox in English-language poetry.

BK Fischer

“Gurlesque poets,” Glenum writes, “put the unabashed quest for female pleasure at the center of their poetics.”

BK Fischer
Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.
BK Fischer
Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr's Poetry and Pedagogy.
BK Fischer

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