Reviews

Mathew Abbott Of fear in abstraction
A review of Fiona Hile's 'Novelties'
Emily Abendroth On our own recognizance
Miranda Mellis's survivable devastation
Gilbert Adair ‘The stone with the music’
On Michael Golston’s ‘The Science Fiction of Poetics’
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'
Charles Alexander Architecture rings true
A review of Carol Watts's 'Occasionals'
Charles Alexander Not just to see and note the birds but to say them
A review of 'A Reading: Birds'
Toby Altman Eating the book review
On Becca Jensen's 'Among the Dead'
Toby Altman Elysian weather
A review of Joyelle McSweeney's 'The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults'
Emily Barton Altman Thus I am inwardly my police
A review of Daniel Poppick's 'The Police'
Nico Alvarado How surfaces can be tweaked and spun
A review of 'New Depths of Deadpan'
Candice Amich Multilingual Latin American poetries
Stan Apps Throughput
A review of 'The Port of Los Angeles'
EB Performing crip/queer survival
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's 'Bodymap'
Jan Baetens Contradictory equivalents
A review of Vincent Broqua’s ‘Recovery’
Kristin George Bagdanov The beast that therefore I am
Eight recent poetry titles on the beast
Cristiana Baik The snapshot poem
A review of Frances Chung's 'Crazy Melon’
Isabel Balée Symptoms and sources
A review of Lauren Levin's 'Justice Piece // Transmission'
John Wall Barger 'Sounds heard when the ear is pressed to the walls'
A review of Gaspar Orozco's 'Autocinema'
Dara Barnat 'Besieged by grief'
A review of Rachel Tzvia Back's 'A Messenger Comes'
derek beaulieu 'An endless, polyglot failure party'
A review of Robert Fitterman's 'Now We Are Friends'
Art Beck A language bent to its own unique use
A review of 'Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter'
Art Beck The letters of the alphabet and letters to the dead
A review of 'Two'
Cara Benson 'another personal narrative burns to a heap of citations'
A review of 'Bharat jiva'
Steve Benson A memoir of exchange
Michael Gottlieb and the praxis of essay
Levi Bentley Re(con)figuring the moment
A review of 'It's Night in San Francisco But It's Sunny in Oakland'
Felix Bernstein Expression Concrète
A review of Divya Victor's 'Natural Subjects'
Charles Bernstein The revolution in 'Tender Buttons'
Jay Besemer Becoming-language
On TC Tolbert's 'Gephyromania'
Joel Bettridge The imagination's shifts between stability and disorientation
A review of Joel Bettridge's 'Reading as Belief'
Nikhil Bilwakesh A literary walking uphill
A review of 'Not Blessed'
Celia Bland Learning by doing
A review of 'Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry'
Julia Bloch Twenty-two on ‘Tender Buttons’
Luke Bloomfield A review of 'Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996–2008'
Mark Boccard The through thing
Static in Karen Weiser
Riccardo Boglione New South new North
A review of 'América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets'
Annie Bolotin Hers to elegize
Aria Aber's 'Hard Damage'
Bruce Boone Paradise now
On Evan Kennedy's 'The Sissies'
John Bosworth Secure that delicate passage
On Hajar Hussaini’s ‘Disbound’
Joseph Bradshaw The decidedly American, Whitmanic grain
A review of Matthew Henriksen's 'Ordinary Sun'
Daniel Bratton Registers of breath: On origins and concession
A review of 'The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins'
Jolene Brink The shape of the vigil
Cassandra Cleghorn's 'Four Weathercocks'
Kevin Brophy 'To drown well is art'
A review of Anthony Lynch's 'Night Train'
Brandon Brown 'The architecture and ambience of the maze'
A review of Marie Buck's 'Amazing Weapons'
Erika Jo Brown Getting to know each other better
A review of 'Lovely, Raspberry'
Laynie Browne 'A Long Dress'
Gerald Bruns Anarchic inventions: On making poetry present
David Antin and Charles Bernstein
Alex Bue 'A ceiling other than a sky'
A review of Ashraf Fayadh's 'Instructions Within'
Megan Burns Creative defense
Pafunda's 'Natural History Rape Museum'
Louis Bury A talk review of 'Ten Walks/Two Talks'
Louis Bury The task of onwardness
A review of Kristen Case's 'American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice'
David Buuck Infrastructures of feeling
Fugitive fugues in the undying present
Amina Cain On 'Both Sides and the Center' 2
A review of the festival, part two
Kim Calder On QED II, part one: The presence of absence
Kim Calder QED II, part three: Not (quite) easily done
Kim Calder QED II, part two: Inchoate affinities
Allison Cardon Potential loss
Teresa Carmody On 'Both Sides and the Center' 2
A review of the festival, part two
Angela Carr After Stein's closet
A tender reading from 'Tender Buttons'
Laura Carter Habitation caesurae
A review of Heather Christle's 'Heliopause'
Laura Carter Motley attire
A review of Anne Boyer's 'Garments Against Women'
Laura Carter The joy at the heart of us
Elizabeth Willis's 'Alive: New and Selected Poems'
Sarah Case Songs and sonnets
A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs' and K. Silem Mohammad's 'Sonnagrams 1–20'
Bonny Cassidy Infidel poetics
A review of John Mateer's 'Unbelievers'
Bonny Cassidy Multicultural sleep
A review of 'Fainting with Freedom' by Ouyang Yu
Mandana Chaffa 'I am the hydra of I / and soon I will be the next thing'
A review of 'The Malevolent Volume' by Justin Phillip Reed
Mandana Chaffa On Kaveh Akbar's 'Calling a Wolf a Wolf'
Alan Chamberlain Suffering into shape
A review of 'Atonement' by Vaughan Rapatahana
Ashley Chang Between the world and the poem
On Dorothy Wang's forms and formations
Maxine Chernoff A longer stay
A review of Stacy Doris's 'Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit'
Philip Clark Against the modular mind
Jena Osman's 'Motion Studies'
Allison Cobb 'It has a place for me as living'
On Susan Landers's 'Franklinstein'
Allison Cobb Poetry as ecstatic geology
On Susan Tichy’s ‘North|Rock|Edge’
Julia Cohen Release we can invent together
A review of Feng Sun Chen's 'Butcher's Tree'
Julia Cohen The poetics of patience and mutiny
A review of Carmen Giménez Smith's 'The City She Was'
Allison Conner Poetry in ruins
Allison Conner Unraveling tongues
A review of 'She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks'
CAConrad (Soma)tic poetry reading enhancement
Andrea Rexilius's 'New Organism'
CAConrad Perfect bound suckling (soma)tic reading enhancement
Rachel Glaser's 'Moods'
Eric Conrad Scholars to come
A review of Matt Miller's 'Collage of Myself'
Joshua Corey The poet's novel
A review of 'Leaving the Atocha Station'
Cecilia Corrigan On drowning
A review of 'I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women'
EC Maxe Crandall Playing Stein
Iris Cushing Beauty is useless
A review of Noel Black's 'Uselysses'
Arkava Das Movements in 'The Unconditional' wasteland
An adventure in thinking
Chris Davidson The freedom of restraint
A review of Devin Johnston's 'Traveler'
Alan Davies A vacancy one knew
Or: shallows of content; or: casuistry
Alan Davies Eloquence
On Sally Silvers's 'Actual Size'
Alan Davies Messing with your head
A review of 'Insolvency, Insolvency!' by Jeremy Hoevenaar
Georgiana de Rham Excavating intimacies
A review of Siwar Masannat’s ‘cue’
Georgiana de Rham Weathering the storms of history
On ‘In Inheritance of Drowning’ by Dorsía Smith Silva
Jay Deshpande Leaving language
A review of Maureen Thorson's 'Applies to Oranges'
Robert Dewhurst Dorothea Lasky, it’s unbelievable
A review of 'Black Life' and 'Awe'
Jennifer K Dick The urban interior-exterior ideal
Jennifer K Dick Timed instants
A review of Cole Swensen's 'Landscapes on a Train'
Alexander Dickow He who sees and listens
A review of Mark Weiss, ‘A Suite of Dances’
Alexander Dickow Partial objects
Jennifer K. Dick's 'Lilith: A Novel in Fragments'
Drew Dillhunt A Marxian whelm of a pillowcase
A review of Timothy Donnelly's 'The Cloud Corporation'
Drew Dillhunt Whose hearts are a thousand chemicals
A review of Calvin Bedient's 'The Multiple'
Denise Dooley Permission to be a poet
A review of Eileen Myles's 'Inferno (A Poet's Novel)'
Denise Dooley The new ground still remaining
A review of 'A Place in the Sun'
Sarah Dowling Steven G. Yao's flexible methodologies
Patrick James Dunagan 'Between appearance and character'
On Vallejo's 'Selected Writings'
Patrick James Dunagan 'Cross Worlds'
On 'Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology'
Patrick James Dunagan 'Liberation in time of emergency'
On the poetics of Duncan and O'Hara
Patrick James Dunagan 'What would I want to do? Hide myself?'
Aaron Shurin's life testament to poetry
Patrick James Dunagan An antagonistic paraphernalium
A review of 'Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations'
Rachel Blau DuPlessis In his element
A review of 'The Astonishment Tapes'
Rachel Blau DuPlessis Stein's wedding cake
Marcella Durand 'If I lose you in the street'
Stacy Szymaszek's 'Hart Island'
Marcella Durand The singularity shows
Marcella Durand There is a war. There is a Neighbor.
A review of 'Neighbor'
Kristin Dykstra On equal footing
A review of recent works by Urayoán Noel
Paul Ebenkamp Cutting through its own knife
On Brandon Downing's 'Mellow Actions'
Lynley Edmeades 'Do it like this'
Lisa Robertson's '3 Summers'
Lynley Edmeades 'The woman is here to stay'
A review of 'A Doll for Throwing' by Mary Jo Bang
yasser elhariry Snap! Blow! The consensus of thinking
Laura Eve Engel One foot in the real, one wing in the ether
A review of Julia Cohen's 'Collateral Light'
Dale Enggass The carceral outside
A review of 'The Desert' by Brandon Shimoda
Olivia Milroy Evans Activist documentary poetics
On Susan Briante’s ‘Defacing the Monument’
Thomas Evans Defiant lightness
A review of Miles Champion's 'How to Laugh'
Michael Farrell Reading tenderly
Michael Farrell The care and the courage
A review of John Mateer's 'The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009'
Dan Featherston 'What kind of poem would you make out of that?'
A review of 'Coal Mountain Elementary'
Jonathan Fedors Exiting the sacred wood
A review of 'On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry'
Keegan Cook Finberg Toward an embodied critique
A review of Louis Bury's 'Exercises in Criticism'
Zack Finch 'A speck of behavior, a fleck of culture'
A review of 'Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems, 1997–2010'
Zack Finch Through and never through
On Peter Cole's 'The Invention of Influence'
Thomas Fink A proliferation of differences
A review of 'Troubling the Line'
Thomas Fink A ‘leap of poetic faith’
On Charles Bernstein’s ‘The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies’
Norman Finkelstein Divinest sense: On Paul Pines
Norman Finkelstein Lawrence Joseph's credo
BK Fischer 'A non-sequitur is a song of experience'
A review of Lyn Hejinian's 'The Unfollowing'
Norman Fischer 'Gradually the World'
A review of Burt Kimmelman's new and selected poems
BK Fischer Disambiguating rape culture
Lynn Melnick’s nouns
Norman Fischer Necessary companionship
A review of Laynie Browne's 'Scorpyn Odes'
Norman Fischer Notes on 'A Mammal of Style'
Norman Fischer Poetry as path, as weapon
On Uche Nduka
Joe Fletcher Why can't I touch it
On Chris Hosea's 'Double Zero'
Arin Alycia Fong Against erasure
The silent citizen remembers in Alejandro Zambra's 'Multiple Choice'
Seth J. Forrest Is it so a noise to be
'Tender Buttons' and noise poetics
Katherine Franco My preferred pedagogy is ‘Pathetic Literature’
Katherine Franco ‘Meeting this strangeness’
Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s ‘of colour’
Lewis Freedman This collision of multiplicity and singularity
A review of Thomas Fink's 'Yinglish Strophes 1-19'
Leora Fridman Haven't worked out the particulars
On instructions, position papers, and finding our way
Leora Fridman Unregulated glamor
On Carrie Lorig's 'The Pulp vs. the Throne'
Corey Frost A talk review of 'Ten Walks/Two Talks'
Chris Funkhouser Prefacing a new book on E-Poetry
On the tenth anniversary of the Electronic Poetry Festival
Matthew Gagnon A walking proposition
On Pam Rehm's 'The Larger Nature'
Matthew Gagnon Laboratories of rhetoric
On Rae Armantrout's 'Just Saying'
Matthew Gagnon Migratory vernaculars
A review of Mark McMoriss's 'Entrepôt'
Kristen Gallagher Cooking a book with low-level durational energy
How to read Tan Lin's 'Seven Controlled Vocabularies'
Shamala Gallagher Razor feminine
A review of 'Small Siren'
Rachel Galvin Dear Gertrude
Rachel Galvin Gertrude Stein anew
A review of 'Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected Edition'
Edgar Garcia Apocalypse and/or poiesis
A review of '2000 Years of Mayan Literature'
John Geraets A swirling life dance
A review of Mark Young, ‘Songs to Come for the Salamander’
John Geraets Curnow's reach
Allen Curnow's 'Collected Poems' and Terry Sturm's 'Simply by Sailing in a New Direction'
Michael Gessner The poetry of re-formation
A review of Jefferson Carter's 'Get Serious'
Michael Gessner Transitionary framings, a case
A review of Geoffrey Gatza's 'House of Forgetting'
Katherine Gibbel Translating in mirrors
Lawrence Giffin On the undesirability of total bliss
A review-essay on Jon Leon
Matthew Girolami A review of 'Attributed to the Harrow Painter'
Kiala Givehand The buried encounter
Josie Sigler's living
Brian Glaser Writing the nothing that is
A review of 'Visiting Wallace'
Loss Pequeño Glazier Tangible expressions of a present poetic
A review of E-Poetry 2013 Festival London
Laura Goldstein A narrative recollection of the week of the Chicago Durutti Skool
And beyond
Laura Goldstein On Cara Benson's 'made'
{experimental reflection}
Susan Gorgioski Europe's shadows vs. America's dreams
A review of Andrew Ervin's 'Extraordinary Renditions'
Michael Gottlieb Honesty is the best policy
Declan Gould 'Spastic messiah / erotic daughter'
On Petra Kuppers's 'PearlStitch'
Steph Gray Behind the scenes of the city and the writer
Messy and fraught with flashes of beauty
Steph Gray Moving image, moving text, never past, look in mirror (repeat)
A review of Lisa Robertson's 'Cinema of the Present'
Steph Gray The hymn of journals, poetic and public
Steph Gray Where we thought the story ends
Jennifer Firestone's 'STORY'
Steph Gray Working in and out of labor
A review of Jill Magi's 'Labor'
Sarah Louise Green But there is a person there
A review of 'The Morning News Is Exciting'
C. R. Grimmer Cripping global queer, antiracist, and decolonial coalitions
A review of 'Crip Times' after 'Beauty is a Verb'
Jess Grover They're on now
A review of Geoffrey O'Brien's 'Metropole'
Francisco "Kokoy" Guevara The plasticity of our pagelessness
Francisco "Kokoy" Guevara The trial of Elizabeth Willis's 'Address'
Len Gutkin 'Imagined lexicography opens onto imagined anthropology'
A review of Ben Marcus's 'The Flame Alphabet'
David Hadbawnik The point of contact they create
A review of 'Three Novels'
David Hadbawnik The way we tend to compose, or hear, poetry these days
A review of 'The Odicy'
Ross Hair 'But most by numbers judge a poet’s song'
A review of Randall Couch's 'Peal'
Steve Halle The poem as a type of activism
A review of 'War Rug'
Robert Hampson Lived history and the British Poetry Revival
A review of Luke Roberts’ ‘Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979’
Luke Harley Poetry as virtual community
A review of 'The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography'
William J. Harris What is poetry?
A review of 'What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know)'
James Hart III Surprise of another 'impossible' category
A Review of 'Portrait and Dream'
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'
Carolyn Hembree Ways to be
A review of 'Kindergarde'
Laura Henriksen 'Power in all its minor forms'
Two Takes on Alli Warren's 'I Love it Though'
Darren Higgins [Objects] in motion
A review of Frédéric Forte's 'Minute-Operas'
Kelly Hoffer Lyric shard as grief’s material
A review of Diana Khoi Nguyen’s ‘Ghost Of’
Eric Hoffman 'the pleasure of / companionship'
A review of 'The Oppens Remembered'
Eric Hoffman A life in books
A review of Anthony Rudolf's 'Silent Conversations'
Eric Hoffman A poetry of vision
A review of 'This Constellation Is a Name' by Michael Heller
Eric Hoffman ‘the unspeakable, the unutterable’
Chris Hosea Getting to know nothing
A review of Peter Gizzi's 'In Defense of Nothing'
Chris Hosea Ways to dream
On Claire DeVoogd’s ‘Via’
Marco Antonio Huerta From legalese into nothingness
A review of Hugo García Manríquez's 'Anti-Humboldt'
Aiden Hunt Mining Black history
On two docu-poetry collections
Amanda Hurtado In the presence of absence
A review of Annette Gilbert’s ‘Literature’s Elsewheres’
Scott Jackshaw Mourning worlds
A review of Prageeta Sharma's 'Grief Sequence'
Paul Jaussen Shots fired
Amber Rose Johnson 'Reader, we were meant to touch'
On Erica Hunt's 'Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems'
Julie Joosten A sensuous field of attention
A review of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's 'Concordance'
Julie Joosten As the elevator moves skyward, it reveals a widening horizon
A review of Rena Rosenwasser's 'Elevators'
Kasey Jueds 'The Emptiness You Seek Also Takes Time'
'Go On' by Ethel Rackin
Kasey Jueds The lives that include us
Mary Kasimor Divine and now
A review of Tony Leuzzi's 'Radiant Losses'
Adam Katz The Duncan/Olson dichotomy
A review of two volumes
erica kaufman 'Tender Buttons': A pedagogy
erica kaufman Allowing oneself to 'be the city'
A review of 'The City Real & Imagined'
David Kaufmann Distances quickly crossed
A review of Larry Eigner's 'Calligraphy Typewriters'
David Kaufmann Minds of winter
A review of ‘Dead Winter’ by Matvei Yankelevich
Michael Kelleher Dear Aaron Shurin
Michael Kelleher Dear Andrew Levy
Michael Kelleher Dear Danielle Pafunda
Michael Kelleher Dear Diane Wald
Michael Kelleher Dear Garrett Caples
Michael Kelleher Dear Kate Greenstreet
Michael Kelleher Dear Mikhail Epstein
Michael Kelleher Dear Stephen Motika
Michael Kelleher Dear Tyrone Williams
Burt Kimmelman Everything’s in flux
On Jeanne Heuving’s ‘Indigo Angel’
Burt Kimmelman Let 'em eat kitsch
A review of Thomas Fink's 'Joyride'
Michael Kirby Caspar's Silence
A review of 'Registration Caspar'
Paul Klinger The enlightenment of bushes and grasses
A review of 'Ghost Snow Falls Through The Void (Globalization)'
Paul Klinger To transform hearing's ear
A review of Charles Alexander's 'Pushing Water'
Davy Knittle 'deer flesh to human flesh'
On C. R. Grimmer's 'The Lyme Letters'
Davy Knittle 'Power in all its minor forms'
Two Takes on Alli Warren's 'I Love it Though'
Davy Knittle 'Reader, we were meant to touch'
On Erica Hunt's 'Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems'
Davy Knittle A field of the invisible
A review of Christina Olivares's 'No Map of the Earth Includes Stars'
Davy Knittle Pretty information
A review of Brandon Brown's 'Top 40'
Rodney Koeneke Pieces of Bruce
‘Bruce Boone Dismembered’
Rodney Koeneke The posthumous now
On Hillary Gravendyk's 'The Soluble Hour'
Virginia Konchan 'Let Her Speak'
The (not-so) quiet revolution of the reproductive, performative, and civic body
Virginia Konchan Cathy Wagner's 'Nervous Device'
From commodity fetish to form
Virginia Konchan Renee Gladman and the New Narrative
Christopher Kondrich Devisable matter and sheer overjoy
A review of Peter Richards's 'Helsinki'
Christopher Kondrich Tunneling through the self
On Hoa Nguyen's 'As Long as Trees Last'
Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell Reading weed acts
A review of Carol Watts's 'Dockfield'
Seth Landman A poem is a sacred attempt at communicating what is impossible to communicate
A review of Laura Solomon's 'The Hermit'
Seth Landman A sound in the mind
A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs'
Steve Langan Perfecting dissatisfaction
A review of 'The Smaller Half'
Sara Larsen There must be pleasure
A review of Alli Warren’s ‘Little Hill’
Jessica Lawson Contagious poetry
A review of 'Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers'
Nicholas Leaskou 'The earth angel, sorting time'
A review of Carrie Hunter's 'Orphan Machines'
Nicholas Leaskou Nostos — returning home to the self
A review of erica lewis's 'daryl hall is my boyfriend'
Nicholas Leaskou Song is remedy for loss
A review of Tiff Dressen's 'Songs from the Astral Bestiary'
Hannah LeClair ‘Here at the midpoint of my life’
A review of Kerri Webster’s ‘Lapis’ and Jana Prikryl's ‘Midwood’
Kyoo Lee CohabitUS: Toward covival
A review of/reflection on ‘Help’ by Claudia Rankine
Sueyeun Juliette Lee Stein's spatial poetics
Star-light and 'Rooms'
Kyoo Lee Who wouldn’t?
CoReflecting OnWith
Colin Leemarshall The poet as symbiont
A review of Harry Gilonis's 'Rough Breathing: Selected Poems'
Paul Legault Who is writing is the translator
A review of 'Ventrakl'
Charles Legere A sense interfused
Refiguring the work of ecopoetics
Sophie Lewis Uncurling
A review of ‘Fetal Position’
Eugene Lim A detour from more traditional paths of composition
A review of 'An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris'
Colin Lodewick Continuing a body
A review of Bhanu Kapil's 'entre-Ban'
Matt Longabucco The hurts of wanting the impossible
A review of 'Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners'
Matt Longabucco The thing that doesn't fail
On Stephanie Young's 'Ursula or University'
pablo lopez Notes on the discursive
A review of Susan Gevirtz's 'Coming Events'
pablo lopez Poetry at the axis of nothing
A review of 'u&i'
Prathna Lor 'The lip of a paragraph'
On Renee Gladman's 'Calamities'
Prathna Lor Building sex
Renee Gladman's 'Prose Architectures'
Astrid Lorange The index of 'Tender Buttons'
Mae Losasso Telltale misadventure
A review of Steven Seidenberg’s ‘Anon’
Ed Luker Poetry in crisis
Rob Halpern and Keston Sutherland
François Luong Becoming in transit
Sun Yung Shin's 'Unbearable Splendor'
Christopher Lura This is not a book of surfaces
A review of 'The Book of Beginnings and Endings'
Andrew Madigan Serious play
A review of Yahia Lababidi's 'Trial by Ink'
Anthony Madrid Ongoing 'Planisphere' notebook
Jill Magi Sound matters
A review of Deborah Meadows's 'Translation, the bass accompaniment'
Aylin Malcolm Queer treatments
A review of 'Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House'
Jane Malcolm We peer through various portals
A review of Gail Scott's 'The Obituary'
Robert Manaster Standstill moments
A review of Piotr Gwiazda's 'Messages'
Adam Marston Punkness and the inescapable self
A review of Rod Smith's 'Touché'
Lorraine Martinuik A careful assemblage
A review of 'Nox'
Andy Martrich Glimpsing the new normal
On Kristen Gallagher’s ‘85% True/Minor Ecologies’
Alexandra Mattraw Runes in the noise menagerie
A review of Claire Marie Stancek's 'Oil Spell'
E.J. McAdams Humanitarian strategies for ecosystem stabilization
A review of 're : evolution'
Aaron McCollough A review of Amaranth Borsuk's 'Handiwork'
Seth McKelvey Cry criers
Jordan Scott's 'Night & Ox' and Andrew Joron's 'The Absolute Letter'
rob mclennan Quiet demands
A review of Sarah Gridley's 'Loom'
Erin McNellis 'It feels like painting a larger picture'
A review of 'Try a Little Time Travel'
Erin McNellis A lot of things happened
A review of Lisa Rogal's 'Morning Ritual'
Erin McNellis Invisible protest
A review of Caryl Pagel's 'Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death'
Joyelle McSweeney Art-trash
On Chelsey Minnis and CAConrad
Deborah Meadows A review of 'Memory Wing'
Joe Milazzo The posthuman humane
On James Pate's 'Flowers Among the Carrion'
Kathleen DelMar Miller 'The succession of syndromes'
A review of erica kaufman's 'INSTANT CLASSIC'
David James Miller The landscape at present
A review of Joseph Massey's 'At the Point'
Tyler Mills 'All my lies are honest'
A review of Chad Sweeney's 'Wolf's Milk'
Joe Milutis Mud and the poetics of art history
Lytle Shaw’s ‘New Grounds for Dutch Landscape’
Stan Mir 'My mother's mother-of-pearl'
A review of Gro Dahle's 'A Hundred Thousand Hours'
Stan Mir Erasing history
On Jordan Abel's 'The Place of Scraps'
Stan Mir Outside of any system
A review of William Corbett's 'Elegies for Michael Gizzi'
Stan Mir Textures for the mouth and ear
A review of Gale Nelson's 'This Is What Happens When Talk Ends'
Stan Mir The quiet influence of patience
A review of Linda Norton's 'The Public Gardens'
Stan Mir Without burning up the frame
A review of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's 'Endarkenment'
Ben Mirov Cookies and vortices
A review of 'The Madeleine Poems'
Jason Mitchell What I see in Stein's 'Tender Buttons'
Jose-Luis Moctezuma Antonio Gamoneda and the ontology of disappearance
A review of 'Description of the Lie' and 'Gravestones'
Lukas Moe 'Perfect losses we can't mourn'
On Rob Halpern's 'Music for Porn'
Rajiv Mohabir Imaginative reading
A review of Hsia Yü's 'Salsa'
Rajiv Mohabir Labor of we
Layers and alliance in Kenji Liu's 'Map of an Onion'
Frank Montesonti Sailor, sleepwalker
A review of 'I Was There for Your Somniloquy'
Kaitlin Moore Proximate cosmologies
A review of Ada Smailbegović’s ‘Poetics of Liveliness’
Brian Mornar Coming to terms with absence
A review of 'censory impulse'
Dee Morris Gertrude Stein sets a table
Tracie Morris If I reviewed her (excerpt)
Seán Morrissey Love and rage
A review of 'We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics'
Andrew Mossin 'Walking out the right door'
A review of Richard Blevins's 'The Art of the Serial Poem'
Andrew Mossin A provisional map of who/what/where we are
A review of 'Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry'
Erín Moure Translation's lucky hand
A review of 'Fortino Sámano'
Robert Mueller On gossamer wings
A review of 'A Field Guide to Lost Things'
Robert Mueller The memoir where it matters
A review of Eleni Sikelianos's 'You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)'
Sheila E. Murphy Trying to keep your voice clear (your voice will break)
A review of Joseph Lease's 'Testify'
Sawako Nakayasu A moment in teaching 'Tender Buttons'
Taien Ng-Chan To get you out walking
A review of 'Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto'
Jeff Nguyen Poet in profile
The scar lit district of Jenny Zhang
Andrew S. Nicholson 'mend the world'
A review of Joseph Lease's 'The Body Ghost'
Aldon Lynn Nielsen A review of 'Black Case Volume I and II'
Jeroen Nieuwland Ecologies of the margin
A review of 'Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics'
Collier Nogues 'The protests became a poem'
Liu Waitong's 'Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits'
Linda Norton His own shine, her smooth inscrutable
A review of Pattie McCarthy's 'Marybones'
Mia Nussbaum When even the good seems violent
A review of '100 Notes on Violence'
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué Giving way to a knot
A review of 'Anemal Uter Meck'
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué Something like flowers
A review of Angel Dominguez's 'Black Lavender Milk'
John Olson Elsewhere is here
A review of 'The Camel's Pedestal' by Anne Tardos
Amy Paeth 'I'-criticism in postliterary America
Amy Paeth The products of labor
A review of 'lo terciario/the tertiary'
John Paetsch Doll/bat/baby face
Secession in echolalia
John Paetsch More vans arrive, all of them inert
A review of Rosmarie Waldrop's 'Driven to Abstraction'
Caryl Pagel The Sickbed
On pain, love, ekphrasis, and Craig Dworkin's 'Dure'
Václav Paris The consolation of poetry
A review of two recent books by René Char
Julian Francis Park Mutual-aid amid 'ASoUND'
A review of Cheena Marie Lo's 'A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters'
Sean Pears ko ko thett's cannibalistic poetics
A review of 'The Burden of Being Burmese'
Bob Perelman Unlikening 'Tender Buttons'
Becky Peterson Literature's nuisance: (Riding) Jackson's memoir
A review of 'The Person I Am: The Literary Memoirs of Laura (Riding) Jackson'
Robyn Maree Pickens 'North of the Equator'
'A TransPacific Poetics'
Tom Pilcher A poetics of appropriation
A review of William Fuller's 'Hallucination'
Samantha Pious Medievalists and madmen
A review of Paul Blackburn’s ‘Proensa’
Deborah Poe A vital territory
'Idylliad' by Elizabeth Savage
Deborah Poe Sensual infrastructure
A review of Jen Currin's 'School'
Deborah Poe The solar vowels in our throats
A review of Meredith Stricker's 'Mistake'
Yvette Poorter A website for one shoe
A review of 'The Ministry of Walking'
Alex Porco Wonky structures
On Alice Burdick's 'Book of Short Sentences'
Betsy Porritt The intimacy of the index
Listening notes on ‘Concordance’
Sarah Posman Breed that
Nate Preus Under the beach, the office
On 'The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization'
Katie L. Price A community so well versed in the other possibilities of the computer
On the tenth anniversary of the Electronic Poetry Festival
David Pritchard The best of all possible Audens
A review of 'Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul'
Patrick Pritchett Against elegy: Michael Palmer's Book of the Dead
A review of 'Thread'
Patrick Pritchett Resurrectional poetics
A review of Raúl Zurita's 'Dreams for Kurosawa'
Andrea Quaid 'Tender Buttons' at 100
'Is there. That was a question. There was no certainty.'
Andrea Quaid On 'Both Sides and the Center'
A review of the festival, part one
Andrea Quaid On 'Both Sides and the Center' 2
A review of the festival, part two
Ethel Rackin (Re)animating the city
A review of 'Deep City' by Megan Kaminski
Ethel Rackin A vital territory
'Idylliad' by Elizabeth Savage
Ethel Rackin The lives that include us
Dean Rader Poetry/painting/history/hermeneutics
On 'Cy Twombly: Making Past Present'
Yosefa Raz On textual cohabiting
Jocelyn Saidenberg's 'Dead Letter' and Brandon Brown's 'Top Forty'
Anna Reckin Existence plus alphabets
'Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way' and 'Participant'
Matt Reeck A very serious joke beneath the (relatively soon to be) exploding sun
Review of Joseph Harrington's 'Of Some Sky'
Matt Reeck An abecedarian
A review of Joseph Harrington's 'Things Come On {an amneoir}'
Matt Reeck Blueprints, or sight-maps
A review of 'Meddle English'
Matt Reeck Community as culture
A review of 'Poetic Intention'
Matt Reeck The importance of nouns
A review of 'N7ostradamus'
Marthe Reed 'A grand collage'
A review of 'A Jerome Rothenberg Reader'
Jessica Reed Between the hardly real and the barely there
Rae Armantrout's 'Conjure'
Matthias Regan To return the margin to the center
A review of 'Elleguas'
Jonathan Regier At the surface of days
A review of Rebecca Wolff's 'One Morning—'
Jonathan Regier Denial is political
A review of Julie Carr's 'Rag'
Jonathan Regier Everything remembers equally
A review of Jennifer K. Dick's 'Circuits'
Heidi Reszies Curiosity and rarity
A review of Cynthia Cruz's 'Wunderkammer'
Sean Reynolds Reformulating precision as excess
A review of 'Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis'
Kylan Rice New sentimentalism
A review of Julie Carr's 'Someone Shot My Book'
Andrew Rippeon What lyric itself thinks
A review of 'Canto'
W. M. Rivera 'Say what you know'
A review of Eleanor Wilner's 'A Tourist in Hell'
Kit Robinson An identity in relation
Anne Tardos on absence
Kit Robinson Surrounded by Paris
Yuko Otomo’s ‘PINK’
Elizabeth Robinson The imagination's shifts between stability and disorientation
A review of Joel Bettridge's 'Reading as Belief'
Jaime Robles 'To throw doubt in the poet’s mind'
A review of Andrew Shelling's 'From The Arapho Songbook'
Jaime Robles A study in how we define the world outside
A review of Maxine Chernoff's 'Without'
Jaime Robles The gap in the throat
A review of 'The Orphan and Its Relations'
Sarah Rosenthal Errant readings
A review of psalmbook by Laura Walker
Noah Ross An archive of feeling
A review of 'The Bigness of Things'
Bonnie Roy Ardour, or …
Nicole Brossard’s burning word
Bonnie Roy Catalog/cloud
Dreams of relation in Amish Trivedi's 'Sound/Chest'
Lauren Russell Bordering on madness
A review of Bhanu Kapil's 'Schizophrene'
Linda Russo Reading 'Iovis' in Bolinas
A review of Anne Waldman's ‘The Iovis Trilogy’
Linda Russo The light of this
An itinerant essay around a reading of 'The Gorgeous Nothings'
Rebekah Rutkoff We can't do it without the rose
A review of the film 'Under Foot & Overstory'
Courtney Rydel Fits of imagination
A review of Thomas Meyer's 'Beowulf'
Joe Safdie Politics and time
The continued relevance of Edward Dorn's 'Gunslinger'
Marcus Salgado File under: new media poetics, electronic literature, technotext, flarf and so on
A review of 'Electro Þerdix'
James Sanders Infrastructure writing
A review of David Buuck's 'Site Cite City'
James Sanders Writing between
A review of 'Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell'
Stephanie Sandler 'Already free'
A review of 'F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry'
Janice Sapigao Navigating the ineffable
A review of Prageeta Sharma's 'Undergloom'
Janice Sapigao Poetics of critical cartography
A review of Sebastian Agudelo's 'Each Chartered Street'
Aram Saroyan A review of 'Just Kids'
Elizabeth Savage 'silence isn't always a trick'
Thomas Devaney's 'Calamity Jane'
Elizabeth Savage 'The government of love'
A review of Elizabeth Willis's 'Alive'
Elizabeth Savage 'The heart's vast and cratered purpose'
'In June the Labyrinth'
Elizabeth Savage 'Tide in and tide out'
A review of Dean Rader's 'Landscape Portrait Figure Form'
Elizabeth Savage Drenched
A review of Ethel Rackin's 'The Forever Notes'
Elizabeth Savage The light of happenstance
A review of Colleen Lookingbill's 'a forgetting of'
Zach Savich Between generations
A review of Keith Waldrop's 'Selected Poems'
Zach Savich Complex orphaning
A review of Jose Perez Beduya's 'Throng'
Zach Savich On returning
A review of 'A Book of Unknowing'
Adam Sax Life-in-death: an agonizing in-between
A review of 'The Agony of I.B.' by Pierre Joris
Lucina Schell Gelmaning on
A review of 'Oxen Rage (Cólera buey)'
Lily Scherlis Beasts of no nation
On the poetics of invasion and Marwa Helal
Jared Schickling Ryan Eckes's American poetry
A review of Ryan Eckes's 'Old News'
Rob Schlegel Either dissolve a genre or invent one
A review of 'Bluets'
Simona Schneider Geoffrey G. O'Brien's subjunctive 'dividuals
'Experience in Groups'
Joshua Schuster '100 years of reading and unreading'
Joshua Schuster On reading Christian Bök's 'The Xenotext: Book 1' ten thousand years later
A xenoreview
Barry Schwabsky The gestural lyric and beyond
A review of Amy King's 'I Want to Make You Safe'
G.E. Schwartz A point of view where there are no voiceless people
A review of John Roche's 'Road Ghosts'
Edythe Haendel Schwartz Method for facing a chaotic and threatening world
A review of Chad Sweeney's 'Parable of Hide and Seek'
Ryan Scott Hundred-spired muse
A review of 'From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology'
Gail Scott The longing, in language, for a connection
A review of 'Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan'
Mark Scroggins The spectral resistance
A review of 'The OBU Manifestos'
Neşe Lisa Şenol A practitioner's commitment to principle in art
A review of 'An Art of Limina'
Jaime Shearn Coan Brian Teare's critical ekphrasis
A review of 'The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven'
Matt Shears Revisioning history
A review of Jill Magi's 'Slot'
James Sherry Humanitarian strategies for ecosystem stabilization
A review of 're : evolution'
Larissa Shmailo The author and authority
Daniil Kharms and the Russian Absurd
Larissa Shmailo Vagabond imagination
A review of Leonard Schwartz's 'If'
Robert Eric Shoemaker Spelling for humanity
A review of 'Spells,' edited by Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás
Jess Shollenberger The scholar's blush
Shame as method in 'Lyric Shame'
Sophie Sills The light contingent on darkness
A review of 'Black Life'
Anna Smaill A life lived in pause
Lynley Edmeades's 'As the Verb Tenses'
Jessica Smith A child's history of conflict
A review of 'Hardly War' by Don Mee Choi
Jessica Smith Against apocalypse
A review of Ron Silliman's 'Revelator'
Dale Smith Antenna openings
A review of 'Late in the Antenna Fields'
Eric Sneathen 'alchemy's new materials'
A review of Jamie Townsend's 'Shade'
Leah Souffrant 'Like a postponed present'
Reading reality in Mandelstam's 'Voronezh Notebooks'
Leah Souffrant A fierce intellectual pacifism
Riding's 'Contemporaries and Snobs'
Leah Souffrant Notes on a phenomenological poetics
A review of Kevin Varrone's g-point almanacs
Leah Souffrant What might be unlocked
On Emily Abendroth's ']Exclosures['
Emji Spero Between time and the topology of flesh
A review of '7 Days and Nights in the Desert'
Rob Stanton 'We want to live on it'
A review of 'We Used to Be Generals'
Rob Stanton Able and vexed
A review of Michael Gottlieb's 'What We Do'
Rob Stanton Attention paid
R. F. Langley
Rob Stanton Forever is nothing
On Montgomery and Armantrout
Rob Stanton On the outskirts?
A review of Stephen Collis's 'On the Material'
Rob Stanton ‘I am the Foundation’
A review of two books by Norman Finkelstein
Chris Stroffolino Unfurling futurity
A review of 'Further Problems with Pleasure'
Aakash Suchak Will wonders never cease?
Laynie Browne's 'You Envelop Me'
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma A quiver of chapbooks
A review of 'New-Generation African Poets'
Chad Sweeney 'As a friend seated beside the poet'
A review of Pam Brown's 'True Thoughts'
Eileen R. Tabios Reconsidering the environment
A review of 'Kindergarde'
Jennifer Tamayo To experience a broadcast
A review of Lisa Samuels's 'Mama Mortality Corridos'
Stephen Tapscott Grief and compensation in Sophie Cabot Black’s 'The Exchange'
Zachary Tavlin Gleam and darkness
A review of John Hollander's 'The Substance of Shadow'
Charles Theonia 'Collective poesy'
The disruptive pleasures of Caroline Bergvall's 'Alisoun Sings'
Charles Theonia Life in 'ear'th'
On S*an D. Henry-Smith’s 'Wild Peach'
Sylvie Thode Writing trauma in silence and stillness
A review of 'Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad'
David Frederick Thomas This other thing the kids are doing
A review of 'Museum of the Weird'
Jay Aquinas Thompson Living fire and flattered lyre
On Erica Mena and Robert Fernandez
Jay Aquinas Thompson On three recent books of poetry
Reviews of Tichy, Tadić and Barskova
Orchid Tierney Code as such
A review of 'Dragon Logic'
Orchid Tierney Make it reappear
A review of 'Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound'
Orchid Tierney Menacing archives
A review of Jennifer Scappettone's 'The Republic of Exit 43'
Orchid Tierney Text in the age of inst@bility
A review of 'A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction'
J.C. Todd 'The Emptiness You Seek Also Takes Time'
'Go On' by Ethel Rackin
Steven Toussaint Fanny Howe's revelation
A review of 'Emergence'
J. Townsend A catalogue of poetics as community
A review of two Slack Buddha Press chapbooks
Robin Tremblay-McGaw Golden
Camille Roy's 'Honey Mine'
Nicole Trigg 'This language materialized'
A review of Mary Burger's 'Then Go On'
Amish Trivedi Explorers, anthropologists, and historians
A review of 'from unincorporated territory [saina]'
Matt Turner Between the Devil and God
Li Zhimin’s 'Zhongalish'
Matt Turner The visions and worlds of Hagiwara Sakutaro
Matt Turner Translating difficulty
On Ouyang Jianghe
Stan Tymorek The poetry of a New York hour
A thousand singers on a mile-long stage
Brian Unger Inside Philip Whalen
Kelsi Vanada 'playback on the rise'
The Señal chapbook series
Morgan Võ Paper cuts, or the costs of legibility
A review of Kimberly Alidio's 'why letter ellipses'
Karen Volkman Gertrude Stein's gustatory sonics
Mark Wallace A global regional poetics
A review of 'A Community Writing Itself'
Adrienne Walser Living Dada
A review of 'Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada'
A. E. Watkins Investigations in absentia
On Paige Ackerson-Kiely
Jacquilyn Weeks Taking the concept of meaning-making by storm
A review of 'Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes'
Norman Weinstein Healer and hunter
A review of Pierre Joris's 'Barzakh'
Eric Weinstein We have a choice
A review of 'To See the Earth Before the End of the World'
Eric Weiskott Victoria Chang's negative elegy
A review of 'Obit'
Andrew Wessels This is the bodies: On Jena Osman and Rob Fitterman
Andrew Wessels Time's loop
A review of 'Möbius Crowns'
Bruce Whiteman Morse Code
A review of 'After Jack'
Afton Wilky To be between
A review of Ed Steck's 'The Garden'
Afton Wilky Typological inquiries
On Lori Anderson Moseman's 'All Steel'
Tyrone Williams Black/women are alive after tomorrow
A review of 'Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing'
Tyrone Williams Climbing earth
The spiritual materials of Hank Lazer and giovanni singleton
Tyrone Williams Examples of
On Barrett Watten's questions
Tyrone Williams Walking through speech to speaking
A review of Jill Magi’s ‘SPEECH’
Elizabeth Williamson A review in turns of Eleni Stecopoulos's 'Armies of Compassion'
Mary Wilson Architecture’s a verb
Aaron Winslow 'The Liberty of Horrors'
On Marie Buck's 'Portrait of Doom'
david wolach A review in turns of Eleni Stecopoulos's 'Armies of Compassion'
Tim Wood All volta
A review of Lyn Hejinian's 'The Unfollowing'
Tim Wood Between bibetgekess and 'but …'
A review of Lyn Hejinian's 'The Book of a Thousand Eyes'
Amy Wright Woo
A review of Jenny Boully's 'not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them'
Ryo Yamaguchi Of what use these memorials
A review of Henry Wei Leung's 'Goddess of Democracy: An Occupy Lyric'
Mia You Good fucks
A review of Dodie Bellamy's 'Cunt Norton'
Mia You Recreate that thing!
Andrew Zawacki Loosening linking
An introduction to Jordan Scott
Andrew Zawacki Railroad sense
An introduction to C. S. Giscombe
Steven Zultanski On Lawrence Giffin's 'Christian Name'
Steven Zultanski Short statement in five parts on 'Statement of Facts'
A review of Vanessa Place's 'Statement of Facts'
Magdalena Zurawski Montreal's was a desiring feminism
A review of 'Theory, A Sunday'