BOOK REVIEWS
Too many good poetry books go without notice, and while we can't publish as many reviews as there are books that deserve them, we hope to help give notice to as many as possible.
Because of space restrictions in our print journal, we are now publishing additional reviews online only. These will appear throughout the year and not just when we publish a new issue.
MOST RECENT
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Nicole Verrone: Nest of Stars
reviewed by Holly Mason
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Julie Danho: Those Who Keep Arriving
reviewed by Millie Tullis
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Holly Lyn Walrath: The Smallest of Bones
reviewed by Jessica Drake-Thomas
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Janet Sylvester: And Not to Break
reviewed by Clarissa Adkins
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Devon Balwit: Dog-Walking in the Shadow of Pyongyang reviewed by Alan King
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John Gerard Fagan: Fish Town
reviewed by Yuki M. Cole
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Andrea Cohen: Everything
reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
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Katherine Hollander: My German Dictionary
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell: Atomizer
reviewed by Jamie Wendt
by Nicole Verrone
by Julie Danho
by Holly Lyn Walrath
by Janet Sylvester
Devon Balwit
by John Gerard Fagan
by Andrea Cohen
by Katherine Hollander
by Elizabeth A. I. Powell
OLDER
Listed alphabetically by author's last name
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Allison Adair: The Clearing
reviewed by Natalie Homer
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Britt Allen: Harvest
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Susan Allspaw: Little Oblivion
reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb
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Renee Angle: WoO
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Kristin George Bagdanov: Fossils in the Making and Diurne
reviewed by Dayna Patterson
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Shanan Ballam: Inside the Animal
reviewed by Ben Gunsberg
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Shanan Ballam: Pretty Marrow
reviewed by Shari Zollinger
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Hadara Bar-Nadav: The Frame Called Ruin
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise
reviewed by Katherine Hollander
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: Personal Science
reviewed by C.K. Coombs
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Michele Bombardier: What We Do
reviewed by MaryEllen Talley
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Ash Bowen: The Even Years of Marriage
reviewed by William Neumire
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Gaylord Brewer: Country of Ghost
reviewed by John Pickett
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Gaylord Brewer: Give Over, Graymalkin
reviewed by Robin Linn
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Gaylord Brewer: Worship the Pig
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Tracy Brimhall: Rookery
reviewed by Christopher Leibow
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Teresa Cader: History of Hurricanes
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Lara Candland: The Lapidary’s Nosegay
reviewed by B.J. Buckley
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Macgregor Card: Duties of an English Foreign Secretaryreviewed by Curtis Jensen
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Rob Carney: 88 Maps
reviewed by Lexi Jocelyn
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Rob Carney: Facts + Figures
reviewed by Diane Raptosh
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Rob Carney: Story Problems
reviewed by Anne Shifrer
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Eileen Cleary: Child Ward of the Commonwealth
reviewed by Christine Jones
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Matthew Cooperman: Still: of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move
reviewed by Jerry Carlin
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Matthew Cooperman: Spool
reviewed by Cassandra Cleghorn
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Steven Cramer: Clangings
reviewed by Dylan Mace
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Steven Cramer: Listen
reviewed by Clarissa Adkins
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Meg Day: Last Psalm at Sea Level
reviewed by Andrew Haley
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Nick Demske: Nick Demske
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Gary Dop: Father, Child, Water
reviewed by Josh Cook
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Lisa Dordal: Commemoration
reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
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Danielle Beazer Dubrasky: Ruin and Light
reviewed by Nancy Takacs
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Okla Elliott: The Cartographer's Ink
reviewed by Justin Hamm
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CJ Evans: A Penance
reviewed by Erin L. Miller
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Kathy Fagan: Sycamore
reviewed by Cassandra Cleghorn
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Yolanda J. Franklin: Blood Vinyls
reviewed by Sarah Giragosian
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Bill Harris: Booker T. and Them: A Blues
reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
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Matt Hart: Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless
reviewed by Adam Love
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Sara Henning: A Sweeter Water
reviewed by Kate Savage
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Harmony Holiday: Negro League Baseball
reviewed by Steve Langan
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Mark Irwin: Large White House Speaking
reviewed by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
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Mark Jackley: Every Green Word
reviewed by Christopher Lee Miles
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Gary Jackson: Missing You, Metropolis
reviewed by Nick DePascal
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Javon Johnson: Ain't Never Not Been Black
reviewed by Elisa Crawley
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Kirsten Jorgenson: Sediment & Veil
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Fady Joudah: Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
reviewed by Donna Vorreyer
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Aby Kaupang: Absence Is Such a Transparent House
reviewed by Andrew David King
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Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman:NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Katie Kingston: History of Grey
reviewed by Diana Anhalt
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Kate Kingston: Shaking the Kaleidoscope
reviewed by Nancy Takacs
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William Kloefkorn and David Lee: Moments of Delicate Balance
reviewed by Gary Dop
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Brian Laidlaw: The Stuntman
reviewed by Josh Cook
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Steve Langan: Meet Me at the Happy Bar
reviewed by Liz Kay
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David Lee: Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans
reviewed by Nancy Takacs
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Ada Limón: The Carrying
reviewed by Peter H. Michaels
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Ada Limón: The Carrying
reviewed by Katie Jean Shinkle
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Rebecca Lindenberg: The Logan Notebooks
reviewed by Stefanie Wortman
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dawn lonsinger: Whelm
reviewed by Kate Rosenberg
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Anna Maris: lifedeathetc / livdödetc
reviewed by stinne storm
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Chris Martin: Becoming Weather
reviewed by Curtis Jensen
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Jena Osman: The Network
reviewed by Nick DePascal
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Dayna Patterson: If Mother Braids a Waterfall
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Jim Peterson: Original Face
reviewed by Gary Dop
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Scott Poole: The Sliding Glass Door
reviewed by Rob Carney
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell: Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances
reviewed by Jamie Wendt
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Melissa Range: Scriptorium
reviewed by Philip Belcher
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Donald Revell: Tantivy
reviewed by Andrew Haley
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Sundin Richards: The Hurricane Lamp
reviewed by Andrew Haley
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Matthew Rohrer: Destroyer and Preserver
reviewed by Steve Langan
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Lisa Roullard: An Envelope Waiting
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Steven Schroeder: The Royal Nonesuch
reviewed by William Neumire
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Peggy Shumaker: Cairn: New and Selected
reviewed by Mary Ellen Talley
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Kathryn Smith: Self-Portrait with Cephalopod
reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
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Christopher Stackhouse: Plural
reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
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stinne storm: jämtska – of fluids and listening.
reviewed by Amy Brunvand
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Robert Sward: New and Selected Poems 1957–2011
reviewed by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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Nancy Takacs: Blue Patina
reviewed by Kate Kingston
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Nancy Takacs: Juniper
reviewed by Carol Henrikson
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Nancy Takacs: The Worrier
reviewed by Kate Kingston
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Larry D. Thomas: A Murder of Crows
reviewed by Jeffrey C. Alfier
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Jonathan Travelstead: Conflict Tours
reviewed by Michael McLane
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William Trowbridge: Ship of Fool
reviewed by Liz Kay
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Angela Voras-Hills: Louder Birds
reviewed by Katherine Hollander
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Charles Harper Webb: What Things Are Made Of
reviewed by Gary Dop
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Sarah Wetzel: The Davids Inside David
reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth
reviewed by Michael McLane
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Sunni Brown Wilkinson: The Marriage of the Moon and the Field
reviewed by Nancy Takacs