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 |