Zach Savich
April Reviews: Kevin Goodan
In Kristen Evans’ KROnline review of Winter Tenor, Kevin Goodan’s second collection of poems, she noted Goodan’s ability to “create an intimate narrative from what could be, in different hands, emotionally distant observations.” That collection’s mostly depopulated landscapes, presented through…
April Reviews: Jena Osman; Yevgeniy Fiks
From time to time my Facebook feed starts chasing its tail over an inflammatory literary diagnosis: is contemporary fiction terrible? are MFA programs ruining poetry? In expansive moods, I can appreciate all opinions for the same reason that I can…
Why We Chose It
Book reviews do more than alert readers to new books: they contribute to the life of those books, much as the reception after a poetry reading contributes to the life of the reading. The reviews featured in each edition of…
A Century of Reviews
It’s Poetry Magazine’s 100th anniversary, and Joel Brouwer has reviewed one hundred years of Poetry’s book reviews. What can contemporary writers learn from older reviews? “Analysis purchases assertions,” Brouwer answers, among his discussion of how reviewers can help foster a…
Three Mini-Reviews
We’ve recently featured some wonderful reviews of poetry collections on KROnline, including Craig Santos Perez’s discussion of three first books by Latino poets and Kristen Evans’ consideration of beauty and excess in Anna Moschovakis’ James Laughlin Award-winning collection, You and…
