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Nathalie Stephens from T H E S O R R O W A N D T H E F A S T O F I T The dead warn copiously against love. I spent the last of ...

Marcus E. Darnell MEAT The cat's head is mashed by the wheel; it steams, the fluorescence devours. The luncheon meat flowers up the frid...

"While it is true that the great discoveries of modernism preceded the academicization of 'creative writing,' my sense is that ...

"Bored to death on the one hand by the interminable repetitions of the MFA clones of their MFA teachers and, on the other, by the unrea...

"...while everyone today in the academy pays lip service to interdisciplinary work, such work only has to appear on the scene for it to...

In No One’s Land by Paige Ackerson-Kiely. Ahsahta Press, $16. Reviewed by Lytton Smith In “Foreplay,” the opening poem of In No One’s Land ...

Adam Strauss DEAR Dear is all I know. A party I'm not at. Bliss of solitude-- A room rude to company: I cannot have guests Unless they i...

Marcus E. Darnell GLASS Glass petals from a glass rose tremble down my tongue. It told me to partake its brittle, wristy, sugar face. Its po...

new triple issue of Verse on French poetry & poetics edited by Andrew Zawacki and Abigail Lang with contributions by Emmanuel Hocquard ...

Talk Shows by Mónica de la Torre. Switchback Books, $14. Reviewed by Anne Heide Mónica de la Torre’s new book, Talk Shows , uses the naviga...

Zach Savich CITY Fruit the color of the sky, apples blue. A hat, an aspect, flight. Eyes represented by small birds at a fountain (if I am...

Aby Kaupang TWO POEMS one birdhouse per truncation groves the lawn and alpenglow a soldier vanishes the aviary what a beautiful bird...

Carl Tillona HEDGING ON YOUR SLEEVE I slap the knee of the girl I love, open The door and greet the next donor. Yes, my little antigen, prog...

Daniel Pinkerton SECRETS OF THE ELK'S LODGE Codgers regale one another with tales of the lodge's origins: in the fifteenth century, ...

In the June issue of The New Criterion , William Logan treats readers to a group review of John Ashbery, Frieda Hughes, Cathy Park Hong, Hen...

The Wife of the Left Hand by Nancy Kuhl. Shearsman Books, $15. Reviewed by Erin McFarland Nancy Kuhl’s first poetry collection, The Wife of...

Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation , by David Ki...

Jasmine Dreame Wagner METRONOME The moon was a peach and the sky, persimmons. Clouds washed up on the beach-- or were they styrofoam peanuts...

This Big Fake World by Ada Limón. Pearl Editions, $14.95. Reviewed by M. Roberts In a world increasingly cynical about love and where form ...

Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras. Coach House Books, $16.95. Reviewed by Erin McFarland From Sina Queyras’ third collection, Lemon Hound , sprin...