Speculation on the History of Drawing; Speculation on the Little Ice Age
The Unreasoning Mask: The Shared Interior Architecture of Poetry and Memoir
The Dangers of Enchantment: Heather Christle’s The Trees The Trees 
“A Thought Turned to Stone”: David Madden’s London Bridge in Plague and Fire
Domestic Threat: Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
The Voice Under the Voice of Every Casual Word: Tom Sleigh’s Army Cats
The Myth of W-a-t-e-r; In Which She Puts to Rest the Mirror; Encounter in Montgomery, 1918
The Invisible Chassidishe Maidel (The Invisible Chassidic Girl)
“The composition is different, that is certain”—Ophelia Composing Herself
Strength, Sweetness, and More: The Available World by Ander Monson
“This Baggy Monster”: Gretchen E. Henderson’s Galerie de Difformité
Shirking the Genre Ghetto: On Lev Grossman’s The Magician King and the Fantastical Novel in 2012
Uncommon Vision: Melanie Rae Thon’s In This Light: New and Selected Stories
Questions of Citizenship: Alice Notley’s Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
Geography and One’s Own Room: Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love
Categories of Understanding; From the Doorway; Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid
If the Past Is a Ghost Town: On Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar
Zen and the Art: Christopher Boucher’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Becoming: The Southern Subjunctive of Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise
The Altar Needlework; How Morning Comes, Out of Sleep; The Sunny Day
Aaron Hibbs Attempts to Break the World Record for Hula Hoop
The Art of Facts and Artifacts: Jeffrey Yang’s Vanishing-Line
The Importance of Being Difficult: Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems
Measured Abandon: Mark Doty’s The Art of Description and Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness
Stories in the Best Way: Caitlin Horrocks’ This is Not Your City
Life, Lines: Susan Howe’s That This and Julie Carr’s Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines
“It’s the silence which has chosen me”: Claude Royet-Journoud’s The Whole of Poetry is Preposition
Two Lungs, On a Quarter Century, Kids in Oblivion, Glowing at the Wreck
On Mark Richard’s House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home
Connecting the Fragments: Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Containers, Pulses, Lentils: Tel Quel and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
“The mirrors are tired of our faces”: Changing the Subject in the Poetry of Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Review of Mary Jo Salter’s A Phone Call to the Future: New & Selected Poems
For Form’s Sake: X. J. Kennedy’s In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955 – 2007
How Criticism Serves: Review of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
James Wood and the Pitfalls of Writing on Writing: Review of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Conversation with the Night Woman, After That, Signs, Snare, The Life of the House
Almost Tenderly, Conquest, Tell Me a Story, Next Stop, Arcadia, The Life You Save
Companion Species (II), La Faute, History, Natality, Gare du Nord
There is only one space and it contains everything in the world
Review of Harry Clifton’s Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004
We All Owe: A Review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
a full-grown man in his ear, the message of the dolls, he drifted toward uselessness
Animal Wisdom in the Age of Extinction: E.O. Wilson’s Anthill
After a New Moon, Returning to Northern New Mexico after a Trip to Asia, Spectral Line
Blues for Tar Baby: The Problem of Contemporary Black Hip Hop Poetry
Homecoming, From the Gray Legends, Before Midsummer above the River Again, By the Front Door
What I Learned About Writing in Drama School, or Kissing in Drag
Two Brothers and Their Father, Under Indictment, Athens, May, 1989
On Michael Burkard’s Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990
“a severe but brilliant mother mosaic so go in”: On Alice Notley’s Reason and Other Women
The Protean Brain: Joanie Mackowski’s View From a Temporary Window
Back to the Future: The Continuing Appeal of The Education of Henry Adams
Review of Peter Stanlis’s Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
Cities burn, favelas rot, the starving walk for water,
elections are rigged and revolutions hijacked,
tanks are deployed against the people—but
here the children walk with lanterns…
From the jungle they watch her, but she doesn’t know this. She sits on the third-story verandah with her monkey, Don Sergio de Ferdinand, who fiddles with her birthstone. Sergio spits apple and leaps into the branches of a nearby tree. …
Brad Richard is a man obsessed. Obsessed with paintings, obsessed with drawings, obsessed with photography.…
David Madden’s thirteenth book of fiction is a daringly imagined mythology of London Bridge—its conception by Peter de Colechurch, its construction, its meaning in history, both metaphorical and literal, and its core relevance to Great Britain and its empire.…
Poems don’t begin. Poems continue.
A poet may sit with pen and paper, or a blue-faced computer screen, and write that first word, but spinning in the poet’s head is a symphony of sounds and impulses, and preceding that first textual mark is a whole history of previous uses of that “first” word.…
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