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To Name and Be Named
by Felicia Zamora The Quiet Practices, by TC Tolbert. Beloit Poetry Journal, 54 pp., $18. The capaciousness of we. TC Tolbert’s newest poetry collection, The Quiet Practices, the … Read the rest
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Additions to the World
“Can art be the nail, hammered into the present, on which the future might be hung? … The three collections reviewed here all have their own answers to such questions.” — Lloyd Wallace
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Lloyd Wallace
Human LimitationsPublic Abstract, by Jane Huffman. American Poetry Review, 196 pp., $16. Jane Huffman’s Public Abstract, selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman Award, begins with … Read the rest
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New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets
“In work that is witty, subversive, socially conscious, and distinct, these poets navigate intimate subjects such as childbirth and the shock of motherhood, bereavement, rapture, environmental crisis, queer desire, art-making, and selfhood.”
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George Guida
Away From the FringeDisease of Kings, by Anders Carlson-Wee. W.W. Norton & Co., 112 pp., $26.95. Anders Carlson-Wee has established himself as a poet of contingency. His debut collection, The Low Passions… Read the rest
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Keene Carter
Nature and the CityTrace Evidence, by Charif Shanahan. Tin House Books, 112 pp., $16.95.To 2040, by Jorie Graham. Copper Canyon Press, 88 pp., $25.Vexations, by Annelyse Gelman. University of … Read the rest
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Amelia Ada
Like It Or NotPunks, by John Keene. The Song Cave, 234 pp., $20.Eggtooth, by Jesse Nathan. Unbound Edition Press, 136.pp, $24.An Eros Encyclopedia, by Rachel James. Wendy’s Subway, … Read the rest
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Laura Villareal
On Colonialism and Climate CrisisMuse Found in a Colonized Body, by Yesenia Montilla. Four Way Books, 108pp., $17.95banana [ ], by Paul Hlava Ceballos. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 112, $18.00… Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
“Stay With Me”: A Review, and a Case for DifficultyCanopy, by Linda Gregerson. Mariner Books, 96 pp., $14.95.Lion’s Paw, by Kathleen Peirce. Miami University Press, 78 pp., $20.Best Barbarian, by Roger Reeves. W.W. Norton & … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Soto’s work reminds us that the San Joaquin Valley remains a ‘place of wonderment—yes, wonderment,’ whose people are, among other things, complex, hard-working, faithful, imaginative, hopeful, caring, animated, cultured, enduring.”
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews