Poetry

Poetry Review: Words into Truth — Henri Cole’s “The Other Love”

July 8, 2025
Posted in , ,

There are reassuring lyrics here that suggest that, no matter what terror comes along, our noble charge is to fight to the end, joyously.

Read More

Poetry Review: Ode to Sisterhood — Barbara Henning’s “Girlfriend”

June 28, 2025
Posted in , ,

Chronicling acts of feminist sisterhood, “Girlfriend” memorializes a mutual support system that has been among the backbones of American life.

Read More

Poetry Review: Eyes Like a Horse — Thomas O’Grady “Coming Ashore: New & Selected Poems”

May 10, 2025
Posted in ,

You could say that Thomas O’Grady’s poems have the eyes of a horse — channeling history and mythology through the contemporary lens of poetry’s eternal present.

Read More

Book Review: “On Frost and Eliot” — No Contest

April 10, 2025
Posted in ,

The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.

Read More

Poetry Review: Ron Padgett’s “Pink Dust” — The Joyful Weight of Words

March 12, 2025
Posted in , ,

Ron Padgett’s “Pink Dust” proves that W.H. Auden was wrong — the nothing of poetry contains everything required to make a good (even heroic) life happen.

Read More

Poetry Review: Songs from a Bone Window — Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s “After the Operation”

March 3, 2025
Posted in , ,

For poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., the neurological is also archeological.

Read More

Poetry Review: “Foxglovewise” — Contending With Presence and Absence

January 31, 2025
Posted in , ,

The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.

Read More

Poetry Review: “What Comes from the Night” — Witnessing Tiny Secret Lives

December 10, 2024
Posted in , ,

“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.

Read More

Poetry Review: “Falsework” — Poems That Leave Room for the Reader’s Echo

October 6, 2024
Posted in , ,

Time and again, Alice Fogel’s poems’ subtractions have a purifying effect, showing us a landscape or an architecture we hadn’t guessed was there.

Read More

Book Review: The Music Is You — August Kleinzahler’s “A History of Western Music”

September 24, 2024
Posted in , ,

August Kleinzahler’s “A History of Western Music” will be a special treat for poetry readers who also appreciate music in all its forms and genres.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives