Articles

Fernando Valverde’s America continues the long tradition of Europeans reporting on life in the US.

Phillip B. Williams’s Mutiny asks how Black poetry can and should be read.

In Yellow Rain, Mai Der Vang assembles witness testimonies and declassified documents into a stunning indictment of US bombings in Laos.

Rosmarie Waldrop’s poems suspend time to achieve the experience of instantaneity.

In Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar reaches across languages to write "documents of barbarism."

A new volume reintroduces Walter de la Mare’s eccentric, haunted, sonically rich poetry.

The South Korean poet Yi Won blurs the boundaries between the virtual and the real.

Melissa Broder's poems share the exaggerated candor of her popular Twitter account, but they obscure as much as they reveal.

Marie Uguay’s meteoric rise was cut short, but her work marks a turning point in Canadian poetry.

More Anon charts Maureen N. McLane’s career-long ambivalence toward the Romantic canon.