'How simple and strange everything is,' to quote Robert Desnos, one of two epigraphs beginning th...
In Scott Withiam's Doors Out of the Underworld, marvelous things occur: a pear talks to a man and...
The title of Michael Anania's wonderful new book, In Time, could not be more appropriate. Poetry ...
Choreomania explores how trauma binds us, even as it tears us apart, how loss deepens a sense of ...
David Blair's poetry unfolds via his exuberantly free and associative imagination, through up and...
In these essays, Joe Safdie seeks 'an expanded notion of the secular, one that contains its own t...
Surrealism, vivid imagery, and spare language draw on tradition to forge a new species of contemp...
We have poetry-words with wings,' Wang Ping declares in The River Within. Ping's 'words with wing...
What a beguiling, intriguing, and evocative book is Sara Marron's Call Me Spes. It entails a Virg...
Being Belgian and writing in French, the Piqueray twins were influenced by Surrealism, as seen in...
The unattributed quote,'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture' is a clever and p...
Joanna Solfrian's second book, The Mud Room, is a masterpiece of the heart's inquiry as to what m...
Philip Belcher's first full-length collection of poems reveals a poet probing memory and art-thei...
In And Yet It Moves, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering thatassaults on scienc...
'Reading these two major talents of flash is akin to watching trapeze artists swoop and dive, yet...
'Plume magazine, and now the second volume of its Plume Anthology of Poetry, is a beautifully edi...
I think of Albert Mobilio as a fläneur of culture. To follow the path of his criticism down alley...
Born into a wealthy Boston banking family, the nephew of J. P. Morgan, Harry Crosby was the very ...
ginosko: A word meaning to perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inc...
Aidan Rooney’s first books of poems, Day Release and Tightrope, both published in Ireland, establ...
Ralph Culver's is a poetry of great precision, almost delicacy, and of subtle power, deployed in ...
The delights of Dan Campion's poetry rest with perceptions closely rendered and the poetic amplit...
Heat, Sob, Lily, Andersson Bicher's second poetry collection, takes as its subject the full range...
Nation is a fragile construct, and rarely more fragile than in Joel Chace's tensive, meditative l...
Anatoly Kudryavitsky's newest collection of prose poetry straddles the divide between the divine ...
Some Flowers is an original in the earliest and now most necessary sense of that word. In these p...
Vivid Partitions is a lyric study of the illusions that separate us from our true selves. It begi...
'Much more than the story of Mark Pawlak's apprenticeship to a major poet (Denise Levertov), My D...
You've lost everything, my enemy said. No, I answered, I still have you, Jeff Friedman writes in ...
There is something astonishing about the ardor with which Carol Frost articulates and sings the s...
In dazzling poetic valedictions, Roundness of the Possible explores cosmic evanescence and limina...
From athletic events to family portraits to celebrations of historic scenes, Running Again in Hol...
In Filthy Creation, Dylan makes sense of her world through art. Her house is a graveyard of inspi...
In Odd Man Out, Dennis Daly poetically contemplates the universe with dark humor and dead-on clar...
In After Pre¿vert, the best poems from Pre¿vert's landmark post-World- War-II collection Paroles ...
Some Main Things is an eclectic collection of twenty-six essays on a broad range of American poet...
Indran Amirthanayagam is a true global poet, and this book in Kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole) is ...
'Exile is . . . quick, vivid, and nuanced, the poet, like the jazz artist, declaring his space wi...
'Highway 1, Antarctica' is Justin Herrmann's debut collection of short fiction, describing workin...
Under the Music is cause for celebration, as it gathers over forty years of Maxine Chernoff’s bri...
Fernando Pessoa enters the imaginations of these gifted American poets like a frightening medicin...
From the melancholy, pandemic-inflected New Poems ('Can meaning take its storied place on suddenl...
'There is a simplicity to her prose, much of it is pared back and precise. It takes some skill to...
Remember Sappho, kids? Remember Adelia Prado and Frank O'Hara? For certain folk, pleasure is the ...
The poems in Hue & Cry, Martin’s second poetry collection, explore the world of art—what inspires...