Reviews

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