Reviews

Mathew Abbott	Of fear in abstraction A review of Fiona Hile’s 'Novelties'	Dec 12, 2013
Emily Abendroth	On our own recognizance Miranda Mellis’s survivable devastation	Jul 29, 2013
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 15, 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
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
Louis Bury	The task of onwardness A review of Kristen Case's ‘American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice’	Jul 07, 2013
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	Release we can invent together A review of Feng Sun Chen's 'Butcher's Tree'	Sep 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
Cecilia Corrigan	On drowning A review of 'I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women'	Feb 13, 2014
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 22, 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
Drew Dillhunt	Whose hearts are a thousand chemicals A review of Calvin Bedient’s ‘The Multiple’	Oct 23, 2013
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
Sarah Dowling	Steven G. Yao's flexible methodologies	Sep 25, 2013
Patrick James Dunagan	'Liberation in time of emergency' On the poetics of Duncan and O'Hara	Nov 11, 2013
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
Norman Finkelstein	Divinest sense: On Paul Pines	Oct 05, 2013
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	A walking proposition On Pam Rehm’s 'The Larger Nature'	Dec 23, 2013
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
Rachel Galvin	Gertrude Stein anew A review of ‘Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected Edition’	Nov 12, 2013
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
Michael Gessner	Transitionary framings, a case A review of Geoffrey Gatza’s ‘House of Forgetting’	Dec 03, 2013
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
Loss Pequeño Glazier	Tangible expressions of a present poetic A review of E-Poetry 2013 Festival London	Nov 14, 2013
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
Eric Hoffman	A poetry of vision A review of ‘This Constellation Is a Name’ by Michael Heller	Nov 11, 2013
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
Mary Kasimor	Divine and now A review of Tony Leuzzi's 'Radiant Losses'	Jul 23, 2013
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
Virginia Konchan	Cathy Wagner's 'Nervous Device' From commodity fetish to form	Oct 16, 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
Seth Landman	A sound in the mind A review of Peter Gizzi’s ‘Threshold Songs’	Jul 13, 2013
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
pablo lopez	Notes on the discursive A review of Susan Gevirtz’s 'Coming Events'	Feb 28, 2014
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
Anthony Madrid	Ongoing 'Planisphere' notebook	Dec 19, 2013
Jane Malcolm	We peer through various portals A review of Gail Scott's 'The Obituary'	Apr 12, 2013
Robert Manaster	Standstill moments A review of Piotr Gwiazda’s 'Messages'	Dec 02, 2013
Lorraine Martinuik	A careful assemblage A review of 'Nox'	Dec 08, 2011
Aaron McCollough	A review of Amaranth Borsuk's 'Handiwork'	Oct 12, 2013
rob mclennan	Quiet demands A review of Sarah Gridley’s 'Loom'	Mar 04, 2014
Erin McNellis	'It feels like painting a larger picture' A review of 'Try a Little Time Travel'	Feb 12, 2014
Erin McNellis	Invisible protest A review of Caryl Pagel’s 'Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death'	Aug 13, 2013
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 17, 2012
Tyler Mills	'All my lies are honest' A review of Chad Sweeney’s ‘Wolf’s Milk’	Oct 11, 2013
Stan Mir	Outside of any system A review of William Corbett’s ‘Elegies for Michael Gizzi’	Aug 07, 2013
Stan Mir	Textures for the mouth and ear A review of Gale Nelson’s ‘This Is What Happens When Talk Ends’	Aug 25, 2013
Stan Mir	The quiet influence of patience A review of Linda Norton's 'The Public Gardens'	Nov 21, 2013
Ben Mirov	Cookies and vortices A review of 'The Madeleine Poems'	Oct 20, 2011
Lukas Moe	'Perfect losses we can't mourn' On Rob Halpern’s ‘Music for Porn’	Oct 14, 2013
Frank Montesonti	Sailor, sleepwalker A review of ‘I Was There for Your Somniloquy’	Oct 01, 2013
Brian Mornar	Coming to terms with absence A review of 'censory impulse'	Jul 08, 2011
Erín Moure	Translation's lucky hand A review of 'Fortino Sámano'	Feb 03, 2014
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
Linda Norton	His own shine, her smooth inscrutable A review of Pattie McCarthy’s ‘Marybones’	Dec 13, 2013
Mia Nussbaum	When even the good seems violent A review of '100 Notes on Violence'	May 13, 2011
Amy Paeth	"I"-criticism in postliterary America	Sep 25, 2013
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
Tom Pilcher	A poetics of appropriation A review of William Fuller's ‘Hallucination’	Jun 12, 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
Jonathan Regier	Everything remembers equally A review of Jennifer K. Dick’s ‘Circuits’	Oct 24, 2013
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
Lauren Russell	Bordering on madness A review of Bhanu Kapil’s 'Schizophrene'	Jun 27, 2013
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
Courtney Rydel	Fits of imagination A review of Thomas Meyer’s ‘Beowulf’	Dec 04, 2013
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	Drenched A review of Ethel Rackin’s ‘The Forever Notes’	Dec 03, 2013
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
Nicole Trigg	'This language materialized' A review of Mary Burger's 'Then Go On'	Nov 22, 2013
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
A. E. Watkins	Investigations in absentia On Paige Ackerson-Kiely	Oct 10, 2013
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
Rebecca E. Wenrick	Stephen Ratcliffe, a view from the writing table A review of Stephen Ratcliffe's 'Conversation'	May 28, 2013
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
Afton Wilky	Typological inquiries On Lori Anderson Moseman’s ‘All Steel’	Nov 01, 2013
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