Poetry reviews archive

Date Title Reviewer
Dec 2003 Sky Lounge by Mark Bibbins Michael Farrelly
Nov 2005 To Repel Ghosts : The Remix by Kevin Young Olivia Cronk
Aug 2003 Cold Spring: A Diary by Tom Clark Monique van den Berg
Feb 2004 it was today by Andrei Codrescu Wendy Anderson
Jul 2003 The Cloud of Knowable Things by Elaine Equi David Harris
Nov 2003 The Activist by Renee Gladman David Harris
Oct 2003 Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb David Harris
Jul 2003 The Painted Bed by Donald Hall Tim Walker
Jul 2003 As Ever by Joanne Kyger Dale Smith
Aug 2003 Essays on Poetry by Ralph Mills, Jr. David Harris
Jul 2003 The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland edited by Frank Ormsby James Purdon
Aug 2004 Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy Olivia Cronk
Jun 2003 The Flood & The Garden: A Daybook by Dale Smith Tim Walker
Jul 2003 Crossing the Outskirts by Julian Turner David Harris
Jun 2004 blue suburbia by Laurie Lico Albanese Wendy Anderson
Jul 2007 The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century edited by William Allegrezza and Raymond Bianchi Olivia Cronk
Feb 2008 The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems by Indran Amirthanayagam Jennifer Garfield
Oct 2007 The Door by Margaret Atwood Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2007 Selected Poems, Expanded Edition by W. H. Auden Olivia Cronk
Feb 2007 Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices by Julianna Baggott Jason B. Jones
Apr 2004 Blue Wizard Is About to Die by Seth Flynn Barkan Tom Bernard
Apr 2007 Beholding Eye: Poems by Grace Bauer Jason B. Jones
Jun 2004 The To Sound by Eric Baus Olivia Cronk
Jan 2005 Spell by Dan Beachy-Quick Stephanie Anderson
May 2006 Shake by Joshua Beckman Olivia Cronk
Sep 2004 Your Time Has Come by Joshua Beckman Olivia Cronk
Jan 2007 Black Box by Erin Belieu Jason B. Jones
Jan 2007 Why Speak? by Nathaniel Bellows Courtney Birst-Wyrick
Jan 2004 Luster by Don Bogen Laura Felch
Mar 2008 The Making of a Sonnet edited by Eavan Boland and Edward Hirsch Blythe Boyer
Feb 2008 Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfield Jennifer Garfield
Sep 2007 Standing in Line for the Beast by Jason Bredle Jason B. Jones
Mar 2006 Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido Olivia Cronk
Jul 2006 Parallel Play by Stephen Burt Mark Doten
Sep 2005 Natural History by Dan Chiasson Olivia Cronk
Jul 2007 Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated by Carson Cistulli Jason B. Jones
Dec 2005 The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins Megan Marz
Jan 2005 Brother Fire by W.S. Di Piero David Kieley
May 2007 Silence Fell: Poems by Josephine Dickinson Jason B. Jones
Oct 2007 Way More West: New and Selected Poems by Edward Dorn Jason B. Jones
Jul 2007 The Spoken Word Revolution Redux edited by Mark Eleveld Izetta Mobley
Apr 2004 Skincerity by Laura Elrick Janine Armin
Nov 2006 The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada Sam Kaufman
Aug 2004 Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B. H. Fairchild Laura Felch
Feb 2007 The Second Child by Deborah Garrison Courtney Birst
Nov 2006 A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison Courtney Birst-Wyrick
Sep 2007 Magdalena by Maureen Gibbon Shaindel Beers
Nov 2006 The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg Josh Cook
Jun 2005 In the Ghost-House Acquainted by Kevin Goodan Maria Halovanic
Apr 2005 The Area of Sound Called the Subtone by Noah Eli Gordon Stephanie Anderson
Sep 2007 A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon Izetta Mobley
Mar 2008 Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon Jason B. Jones
Jul 2007 case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet Olivia Cronk
Jul 2006 Learning the Language by Kate Greenstreet Olivia Cronk
Apr 2005 Ashes For Breakfast by Durs Grünbein Joey Rubin
Nov 2006 Horror Vacui by Thomas Heise Jason B. Jones
Oct 2007 Fold Books by Stephen Hemenway Courtney Birst
Nov 2004 Fossil Sky by David Hinton Olivia Cronk
Apr 2007 Twentieth Century German Poetry edited by Michael Hoffman Olivia Cronk
Dec 2004 Inner Voices and Paper Trail by Richard Howard Adam Travis
Jan 2006 The Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken by Fanny Howe Olivia Cronk
Jan 2004 Altazor by Vicente Huidobro Laura Felch
Jan 2008 Epistles: Poems by Mark Jarman Jason B. Jones
Nov 2006 Poems I Wrote While Watching TV by Travis Jeppesen Jason B. Jones
Feb 2006 Into It by Lawrence Joseph Nicholas Gilewicz
Jun 2006 Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary by Karla Kelsey Olivia Cronk
Mar 2008 Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death by Christopher Kennedy Jason B. Jones
Apr 2004 The White Eyelash by Susan Kinsolving Wendy Anderson
Feb 2006 Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar Blythe Boyer
Dec 2004 Taboo by Yusef Komunyakaa Olivia Cronk
Jul 2007 Glean by Joshua Kryah Jason B. Jones
Oct 2007 Awe by Dorothea Lasky Olivia Cronk
Aug 2005 The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott Olivia Cronk
Nov 2006 you are a little bit happier than i am by Tao Lin Aysha Somasundaram
Jun 2007 What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward Courtney Birst-Wyrick
Apr 2007 Radish King by Rebecca Loudon Jason B. Jones
Mar 2008 God Particles by Thomas Lux Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2008 Dear Body: by Dan Machlin Courtney Birst
Apr 2004 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Doug MacPherson and Edward Smallfield Michael Farrelly
Oct 2006 The Book of Jobs: Poems by Kathryn Maris Jason B. Jones
May 2008 A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering by Dawn Lundy Martin Olivia Cronk
Apr 2008 Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath Justin Taylor
Oct 2006 Richard Meier, Dara Wier, and Jon Woodward Olivia Cronk
Mar 2006 Present Company by W.S. Merwin Gilbert Purdy
Mar 2005 Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz Joey Rubin
Nov 2006 I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone by Anna Moschovakis Olivia Cronk
Oct 2005 Lampblack & Ash by Simone Muench Maria Halovanic
Jan 2007 Horse Latitudes and The End of the Poem by Paul Muldoon Jason B. Jones
May 2005 Fall by Amy Newman Sumita Sheth
Apr 2008 A Different Practice by Frederik Nyberg translated by Jennifer Hayashida Olivia Cronk
Feb 2005 Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 by Sharon Olds David Kieley
Oct 2007 Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005) by Shin Yu Pai Olivia Cronk
Jun 2007 The Case Against Happiness by Jean-Paul Pecqueur Jason B. Jones
Sep 2007 The Body is No Machine by Jennifer Perrin Courtney Birst
Aug 2005 Chattahoochee by Patrick Phillips Gena Anderson
Feb 2008 Sensational Spectacular by Nate Pritts Olivia Cronk
Mar 2005 Matter by Bin Ramke Olivia Cronk
Aug 2006 New and Collected Poems: 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed Jason Rotstein
Mar 2004 My Mojave by Donald Revell Diana Ghermann
Oct 2007 A Thief of Strings by Donald Revell Jason B. Jones
Oct 2007 Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 by Adrienne Rich Elizabeth Bachner
Sep 2006 Swithering by Robin Robertson Jason Rotstein
Sep 2005 Apprehend by Elizabeth Robinson Charles Rybak
Feb 2006 The Niagara River by Kay Ryan Megan Marz
Jun 2007 Tarumba by Jaime Sabines Elizabeth Bachner
May 2007 The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg D. Richard Scannell
Feb 2005 Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles Joey Rubin
Jan 2007 Ooga Booga by Frederick Seidel Olivia Cronk
May 2005 Crush by Richard Siken Gena Anderson
Jun 2005 My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic Raymond L Bianchi
Jul 2007 Theory of Orange by Rachel M. Simon Jason B. Jones
Mar 2004 before, during, and after by Hal Sirowitz Gena Anderson
May 2008 Red Shifting by Aleksandr Skidan, translated by Genya Turovskaya Blythe Boyer
Sep 2007 Space Walk by Tom Sleigh Jason B. Jones
May 2006 Early Distant Warning by Rad Smith Jason Rotstein
Jul 2004 Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder Laura Felch
Mar 2006 Modern and Normal by Karen Solie Mandy Brouse
Nov 2007 Dog Girl by Heidi Lynn Stapes Jason B. Jones
Mar 2007 A Map by a Dim Lamp by Ron Starr Jason B. Jones
Apr 2005 The Cuckoo by Peter Streckfus Jason Hensel
Sep 2004 Pastorelles by John Taggart Anastasios Kozaitis
Feb 2005 Madness and Retribution by Juliette Torrez Laura Leichum
Mar 2005 Invisible Bride by Tony Tost Gena Anderson
Jun 2005 Within the Margin by Truong Tran Raymond L Bianchi
Apr 2006 Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Nicholas Gilewicz
May 2006 Here, Bullet by Brian Turner Mark Jenkins
Feb 2008 Undid in the Land of the Undone by Lee Upton Olivia Cronk
Mar 2007 Inkblot and Altar by Laura Van Prooyen Aysha Somasundaram
Feb 2005 Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble by Anne Waldman Olivia Cronk
Sep 2004 The Escape by Jo Ann Wasserman Sasha Watson
May 2006 Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms by Joshua Marie Wilkinson David Kieley
May 2007 The Pictures by Max Winter Olivia Cronk
Oct 2004 Figment by Rebecca Wolff Olivia Cronk
Feb 2005 Buffalo Yoga by Charles Wright Wendy Anderson
Apr 2005 Black Maria by Kevin Young Joey Rubin
Jan 2007 For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young Amy Güth
Aug 2006 Circulation Flowers by Chuck Stebelton and Telling the Future Off by Stephanie Young Nicholas Gilewicz