Reviews

Jeff Alessandrelli 'The problem with being numerous is a problem of memory'
A review of Joshua Ware's 'Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley'
Jul 16, 2012
Charles Alexander Architecture rings true
A review of Carol Watts's 'Occasionals'
May 03, 2012
Charles Alexander Not just to see and note the birds but to say them
A review of 'A Reading: Birds'
Oct 30, 2011
Nico Alvarado How surfaces can be tweaked and spun
A review of 'New Depths of Deadpan'
Apr 29, 2011
Candice Amich Multilingual Latin American poetries Apr 22, 2011
Stan Apps Throughput
A review of 'The Port of Los Angeles'
Jun 10, 2011
Cristiana Baik The snapshot poem
A review of Frances Chung’s ‘Crazy Melon’
Feb 10, 2013
Dara Barnat "Besieged by grief"
A review of Rachel Tzvia Back's 'A Messenger Comes'
Dec 06, 2012
derek beaulieu 'An endless, polyglot failure party'
A review of Robert Fitterman's 'Now We Are Friends'
Jun 26, 2012
Art Beck A language bent to its own unique use
A review of 'Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter'
Apr 27, 2012
Art Beck The letters of the alphabet and letters to the dead
A review of 'Two'
Sep 22, 2011
Cara Benson 'another personal narrative burns to a heap of citations'
A review of 'Bharat jiva'
Nov 07, 2011
Steve Benson A memoir of exchange
Michael Gottlieb and the praxis of essay
May 06, 2011
Joel Bettridge The imagination's shifts between stability and disorientation
A review of Joel Bettridge's 'Reading as Belief'
Jan 24, 2012
Nikhil Bilwakesh A literary walking uphill
A review of 'Not Blessed'
Nov 02, 2011
Luke Bloomfield A review of 'Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996-2008' Dec 05, 2011
Mark Boccard The through thing
Static in Karen Weiser
May 23, 2011
Joseph Bradshaw The decidedly American, Whitmanic grain
A review of Matthew Henriksen's 'Ordinary Sun'
May 08, 2012
Daniel Bratton Registers of breath: On origins and concession
A review of 'The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins'
Apr 10, 2011
Kevin Brophy 'To drown well is art'
A review of Anthony Lynch's 'Night Train'
Dec 17, 2012
Brandon Brown 'The architecture and ambience of the maze'
A review of Marie Buck's "Amazing Weapons"
Dec 05, 2012
Erika Jo Brown Getting to know each other better
A review of 'Lovely, Raspberry'
Oct 23, 2011
Gerald Bruns Anarchic inventions: On making poetry present
David Antin and Charles Bernstein
Jul 05, 2012
Louis Bury & Corey Frost A Talk Review of 'Ten Walks/Two Talks' Nov 02, 2011
Amina Cain On 'Both Sides and the Center'
A review of the festival, part two
Mar 22, 2012
Teresa Carmody On 'Both Sides and the Center'
A review of the festival, part two
Mar 22, 2012
Sarah Case Songs and sonnets
A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs' and K. Silem Mohammad's 'Sonnagrams 1–20'
Sep 09, 2012
Maxine Chernoff A longer stay
A review of Stacy Doris's ‘Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit’
Feb 10, 2013
Julia Cohen The poetics of patience and mutiny
A review of Carmen Giménez Smith's 'The City She Was'
Jul 15, 2012
Eric Conrad Scholars to come
A review of Matt Miller's 'Collage of Myself'
May 09, 2012
Joshua Corey The poet’s novel
A review of ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’
Aug 19, 2011
Iris Cushing Beauty is useless
A review of Noel Black’s ‘Uselysses’
Mar 28, 2013
Chris Davidson The freedom of restraint
A review of Devin Johnston's "Traveler"
Sep 20, 2012
Jay Deshpande Leaving language
A review of Maureen Thorson's 'Applies to Oranges'
Jul 23, 2012
Robert Dewhurst Dorothea Lasky, it’s unbelievable
A review of 'Black Life' and 'Awe'
Dec 19, 2011
Drew Dillhunt A Marxian whelm of a pillowcase
A review of Timothy Donnelly's 'The Cloud Corporation'
Jan 02, 2012
Denise Dooley Permission to be a poet
A review of Eileen Myles's 'Inferno (A Poet's Novel)'
Feb 29, 2012
Denise Dooley The new ground still remaining
A review of 'A Place in the Sun'
Jul 05, 2011
Patrick James Dunagan An antagonistic paraphernalium
A review of 'Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations'
Dec 26, 2011
Marcella Durand There is a war. There is a Neighbor.
A review of 'Neighbor'
Apr 04, 2011
Kristin Dykstra On equal footing
A review of recent works by Urayoán Noel
Apr 25, 2012
Michael Farrell The care and the courage
A review of John Mateer's 'The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009'
Aug 09, 2012
Dan Featherston 'What kind of poem would you make out of that?'
A review of 'Coal Mountain Elementary'
Apr 04, 2011
Jonathan Fedors Exiting the sacred wood
A review of 'On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry'
Apr 04, 2011
Zack Finch 'A speck of behavior, a fleck of culture'
A review of 'Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems, 1997–2010'
Nov 18, 2011
Lewis Freedman This collision of multiplicity and singularity
A review of Thomas Fink's 'Yinglish Strophes 1-19'
Jan 03, 2012
Chris Funkhouser Prefacing a new book on E-Poetry
On the tenth anniversary of the Electronic Poetry Festival
May 30, 2011
Matthew Gagnon Migratory vernaculars
A review of Mark McMoriss's 'Entrepôt'
Dec 30, 2011
Kristen Gallagher Cooking a book with low-level durational energy
How to read Tan Lin's 'Seven Controlled Vocabularies'
May 27, 2011
Edgar Garcia Apocalypse and/or poiesis
A review of '2000 Years of Mayan Literature'
Oct 23, 2011
Michael Gessner The poetry of re-formation
A review of Jefferson Carter's 'Get Serious'
Dec 21, 2012
Lawrence Giffin On the undesirability of total bliss
A review-essay on Jon Leon
Jul 10, 2012
Kiala Givehand The buried encounter
Josie Sigler's living
Jun 22, 2011
Brian Glaser Writing the nothing that is
A review of 'Visiting Wallace'
May 04, 2011
Laura Goldstein A narrative recollection of the week of the Chicago Durutti Skool
And beyond
Nov 14, 2011
Susan Gorgioski Europe's shadows vs. America's dreams
A review of Andrew Ervin's 'Extraordinary Renditions'
Mar 19, 2012
Sarah Louise Green But there is a person there
A review of 'The Morning News Is Exciting'
Jun 20, 2011
Jess Grover They're on now
A review of Geoffrey O'Brien's 'Metropole'
Jan 13, 2013
Francisco "Kokoy" Guevara The plasticity of our pagelessness Apr 11, 2013
Francisco "Kokoy" Guevara The trial of Elizabeth Willis's 'Address' Jun 27, 2012
Len Gutkin 'Imagined lexicography opens onto imagined anthropology'
A review of Ben Marcus's 'The Flame Alphabet'
Oct 21, 2012
David Hadbawnik The point of contact they create
A review of 'Three Novels'
Nov 09, 2011
David Hadbawnik The way we tend to compose, or hear, poetry these days
A review of 'The Odicy'
Nov 09, 2011
Steve Halle The poem as a type of activism
A review of 'War Rug'
Jul 14, 2011
Luke Harley Poetry as virtual community
A review of ‘The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography’
Feb 07, 2013
James Hart III Surprise of another 'impossible' category
A Review of 'Portrait and Dream'
Dec 05, 2011
j/j hastain These books need to be collaborated with
A review of Debrah Morkun's 'The Ida Pingala' and Aimee Herman's 'to go without blinking'
May 03, 2012
Julie Joosten A sensuous field of attention
A review of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's 'Concordance'
Jun 22, 2011
Julie Joosten As the elevator moves skyward, it reveals a widening horizon
A review of Rena Rosenwasser's 'Elevators'
Jan 30, 2012
Erica Kaufman Allowing oneself to 'be the city'
A review of 'The City Real & Imagined'
Nov 02, 2011
Paul Klinger The enlightenment of bushes and grasses
A review of 'Ghost Snow Falls Through The Void (Globalization)'
Dec 29, 2011
Paul Klinger To transform hearing's ear
A review of Charles Alexander’s ‘Pushing Water’
Jan 24, 2013
Christopher Kondrich Devisable matter & sheer overjoy
A review of Peter Richards’s ‘Helsinki’
Feb 15, 2013
Seth Landman A poem is a sacred attempt at communicating what is impossible to communicate
A review of Laura Solomon's 'The Hermit'
Mar 19, 2012
Steve Langan Perfecting dissatisfaction
A review of 'The Smaller Half'
Nov 30, 2011
Jessica Lawson Contagious poetry
A review of 'Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers'
Apr 05, 2011
Paul Legault Who is writing is the translator
A review of 'Ventrakl'
Jun 28, 2011
Charles Legere A sense interfused
Refiguring the work of ecopoetics
Apr 04, 2011
Eugene Lim A detour from more traditional paths of composition
A review of 'An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris'
Nov 02, 2011
Christopher Lura This is not a book of surfaces
A review of 'The Book of Beginnings and Endings'
Dec 09, 2011
Andrew Madigan Serious play
A review of Yahia Lababidi's 'Trial by Ink'
Jan 26, 2012
Jane Malcolm We peer through various portals
A review of Gail Scott's 'The Obituary'
Apr 12, 2013
Lorraine Martinuik A careful assemblage
A review of 'Nox'
Dec 08, 2011
E.J. McAdams Humanitarian strategies for ecosystem stabilization
A review of 're : evolution'
Dec 11, 2011
Joyelle McSweeney Art-trash
On Chelsey Minnis and CAConrad
Dec 15, 2011
Deborah Meadows A review of 'Memory Wing' Jul 12, 2012
David James Miller The landscape at present
A review of Joseph Massey's 'At the Point'
Jul 18, 2012
Ben Mirov Cookies and vortices
A review of 'The Madeleine Poems'
Oct 20, 2011
Brian Mornar Coming to terms with absence
A review of 'censory impulse'
Jul 08, 2011
Sheila E. Murphy Trying to keep your voice clear (your voice will break)
A review of Joseph Lease's 'Testify'
Jan 06, 2012
Taien Ng-Chan To get you out walking
A review of 'Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto'
Nov 02, 2011
Jeroen Nieuwland Ecologies of the margin
A review of 'Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics'
Feb 15, 2012
Mia Nussbaum When even the good seems violent
A review of '100 Notes on Violence'
May 13, 2011
John Paetsch Doll/bat/baby face
Secession in echolalia
Jul 05, 2011
John Paetsch More vans arrive, all of them inert
A review of Rosmarie Waldrop's 'Driven to Abstraction'
Jan 12, 2012
Caryl Pagel The Sickbed
On pain, love, ekphrasis, and Craig Dworkin's 'Dure'
Jun 09, 2011
Václav Paris The consolation of poetry
A review of two recent books by René Char
Mar 26, 2012
Becky Peterson Literature's nuisance: (Riding) Jackson's memoir
A review of ‘The Person I Am: The Literary Memoirs of Laura (Riding) Jackson’
Feb 15, 2013
Katie L. Price A community so well versed in the other possibilities of the computer
On the tenth anniversary of the Electronic Poetry Festival
May 26, 2011
Patrick Pritchett Against elegy: Michael Palmer's Book of the Dead
A review of 'Thread'
Aug 29, 2011
Patrick Pritchett Resurrectional poetics
A review of Raúl Zurita's 'Dreams for Kurosawa'
Aug 31, 2012
Andrea Quaid On 'Both Sides and the Center'
A review of the festival, part one
Sep 11, 2011
Andrea Quaid On 'Both Sides and the Center'
A review of the festival, part two
Mar 22, 2012
Matt Reeck An abecedarian
A review of Joseph Harrington's 'Things Come On {an amneoir}'
Feb 07, 2012
Matt Reeck Blueprints, or sight-maps
A review of 'Meddle English'
Sep 07, 2011
Matt Reeck Community as culture
A review of 'Poetic Intention'
Jan 09, 2012
Matt Reeck The importance of nouns
A review of 'N7ostradamus'
Apr 23, 2011
Matthias Regan To return the margin to the center
A review of 'Elleguas'
Aug 03, 2011
Sean Reynolds Reformulating precision as excess
A review of 'Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis'
May 12, 2011
Andrew Rippeon What lyric itself thinks
A review of 'Canto'
Jul 27, 2011
W. M. Rivera "Say what you know"
A review of Eleanor Wilner's "A Tourist in Hell"
Mar 06, 2012
Kit Robinson An identity in relation
Anne Tardos on absence
Apr 17, 2011
Elizabeth Robinson The imagination's shifts between stability and disorientation
A review of Joel Bettridge's 'Reading as Belief'
Jan 24, 2012
Jaime Robles "To throw doubt in the poet’s mind"
A review of Andrew Shelling's "From The Arapho Songbook"
Oct 16, 2012
Jaime Robles A study in how we define the world outside
A review of Maxine Chernoff's 'Without'
May 20, 2013
Jaime Robles The gap in the throat
A review of 'The Orphan and Its Relations'
Jun 02, 2011
Linda Russo Reading 'Iovis' in Bolinas
A review of Anne Waldman's ‘The Iovis Trilogy’
Feb 24, 2013
Rebekah Rutkoff We can't do it without the rose
A review of the film 'Under Foot & Overstory'
Nov 02, 2011
Marcus Salgado File under: new media poetics, electronic literature, technotext, flarf and so on
A review of 'Electro Þerdix'
Sep 28, 2011
Aram Saroyan A review of 'Just Kids' Jun 27, 2012
Elizabeth Savage The light of happenstance
A review of Colleen Lookingbill's 'a forgetting of'
Jul 19, 2012
Zach Savich On returning
A review of 'A Book of Unknowing'
May 03, 2011
Jared Schickling Ryan Eckes's American poetry
A review of Ryan Eckes's 'Old News'
May 14, 2013
Rob Schlegel Either dissolve a genre or invent one
A review of 'Bluets'
Jun 13, 2011
Barry Schwabsky The gestural lyric and beyond
A review of Amy King's "I Want to Make You Safe"
Nov 10, 2012
G.E. Schwartz A point of view where there are no voiceless people
A review of John Roche's 'Road Ghosts'
Jan 26, 2012
Edythe Haendel Schwartz Method for facing a chaotic and threatening world
A review of Chad Sweeney's 'Parable of Hide and Seek'
Aug 08, 2012
Ryan Scott Hundred-spired muse
A review of 'From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology'
Mar 06, 2012
Gail Scott The longing, in language, for a connection
A review of 'Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan'
Nov 02, 2011
Neşe Lisa Şenol A practitioner's commitment to principle in art
A review of 'An Art of Limina'
Aug 24, 2011
Matt Shears Revisioning history
A review of Jill Magi's 'Slot'
Jan 14, 2013
James Sherry Humanitarian strategies for ecosystem stabilization
A review of 're : evolution'
Dec 11, 2011
Sophie Sills The light contingent on darkness
A review of 'Black Life'
Jul 21, 2011
Dale Smith Antenna openings
A review of 'Late in the Antenna Fields'
Dec 30, 2011
Leah Souffrant Notes on a phenomenological poetics
A review of Kevin Varrone's g-point almanacs
Nov 02, 2011
Rob Stanton On the outskirts?
A review of Stephen Coliss's 'On the Material'
Dec 30, 2011
Chad Sweeney 'As a friend seated beside the poet'
A review of Pam Brown's "True Thoughts"
Nov 27, 2012
Jennifer Tamayo To experience a broadcast
A review of Lisa Samuels's 'Mama Mortality Corridos'
Dec 30, 2011
David Frederick Thomas This other thing the kids are doing
A review of 'Museum of the Weird'
Aug 24, 2011
Jay Thompson On three recent books of poetry
Reviews of Tichy, Tadić and Barskova
Jun 23, 2011
Steven Toussaint Fanny Howe's revelation
A review of 'Emergence'
May 16, 2011
J. Townsend A catalogue of poetics as community
A review of two Slack Buddha Press chapbooks
May 02, 2011
Amish Trivedi Explorers, anthropologists, and historians
A review of 'from unincorporated territory [saina]'
Jul 18, 2011
Mark Wallace A global regional poetics
A review of 'A Community Writing Itself'
Jun 07, 2011
Jacquilyn Weeks Taking the concept of meaning-making by storm
a review of 'Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes'
Jun 24, 2011
Eric Weinstein We have a choice
A review of 'To See the Earth Before the End of the World'
Aug 31, 2011
Andrew Wessels Time's loop
A review of 'Möbius Crowns'
Jul 27, 2011
Bruce Whiteman Morse Code
A review of 'After Jack'
Oct 23, 2011
Tyrone Williams Climbing earth
The spiritual materials of Hank Lazer and giovanni singleton
Apr 02, 2013
Tim Wood Between bibetgekess and 'but …'
A review of Lyn Hejinian’s ‘The Book of a Thousand Eyes’
Apr 25, 2013
Amy Wright Woo
A review of Jenny Boully's 'not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them'
Jan 20, 2012
Steven Zultanski Short statement in five parts on "Statement of Facts"
A review of Vanessa Place's "Statement of Facts"
Oct 16, 2012