By Patricia Clark

It is hard not to recall the deft turns of Mary Oliver in Clark’s work—both...

By Jack Collom

"The fact that Collom invites the audience to take part in the work of the...

By Michael Heller

Michael Heller’s poems, now available in their imposing entirety in This Constellation Is a Name,...

By Mario Susko

In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...

By CJ Evans

Evans’s A Penance, though not perfect, challenges readers in a way that requires them to...

By Sally Keith

There is a set of instructions one should follow before reading Sally Keith’s The Fact...

By Jasmine Dreame Wagner

This poet is an interdisciplinary artist and the visual presentation of Listening for Earthquakes is...

By Tracy Grinnell; Nancy Kuhl; Jenn McCreary; Susan Schultz

In that layering of story and persona, these writers engage with the suppleness of female...

By Maureen Seaton

Seaton’s project is a map which curves intricately, reflexively, and suddenly becomes a globe....

By Elizabeth Savage

At turns beautiful and disconcerting, Grammar presents us with a thought-provoking portrayal of language as...

By Lily Brown

The poems of Lily Brown’s debut full-length collection risk utterances that make belief an appealing,...

By David Mutschlecner

If a poet’s work is words—the words that call forth the sun, that cause the...

By Harmony Holiday

Her poems are chronicles that frame their own engagement; in terms of Holiday's kinetic, long...

By Jorie Graham

Every so often, someone comes along who seems to defy neat categories, an American writer...

By Nick Courtright

Nick Courtright’s stunning first collection of poems invokes the everyday as a point of entry...

By Peter O'Leary

For all the innovation and diversity in contemporary American poetry, there is a lexicon that...

By Colleen Lookingbill

A Forgetting Of, by Colleen Lookingbill, is a visionary work that ranges through one woman’s...

By William Wright

William Wright’s long narrative poem Bledsoe is immersed in the deep Appalachian South. The opening...

By Amy King

I Want to Make You Safe is the follow-up to 2009’s Slaves to Do These...

By Aaron McCollough

Against a poetic landscape filled with ironic detachment, Aaron McCollough’s work is refreshingly earnest. No...

By Robert Fernandez

Robert Fernandez’s ambitious debut, We Are Pharaoh, asks its reader to begin at the “billowing...