BOOK REVIEWS
Too many good poetry books go without notice, and while we can't publish as many reviews as there are deserving books, we hope to help give notice to as many as possible.
Because of space restrictions in our print journal, we also publish additional reviews online only that appear throughout the year and not just when we publish a new issue.
MOST RECENT
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Kevin McLellan: Sky. Pond. Mouth.
reviewed by Joyce Peseroff
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Francesca Bell: What Small Sound
reviewed by Dion O'Reilly
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Angelique Zobitz: Seraphim
reviewed by Dayna Patterson
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Women’s Voices from Kurdistan: A Selection of Kurdish Poetry, edited by Farangis Ghaderi, Clémence Scalbert Yücel & Yaser Hassan Ali
reviewed by Steven Barfield & Alan Ali Saeed
by Kevin McLellan
by Francesca Bell
by Angelique Zobitz
edited by Farangis Ghaderi, Clémence Scalbert Yücel & Yaser Hassan Ali
by Corey Van Landingham
by Steve Langan
by Matthew Zapruder
by Vidhu Aggarwal
by Richie Hofmann
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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Devon Balwit: Dog-Walking in the Shadow of Pyongyang
reviewed by Alan King
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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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Leila Chatti: Deluge
reviewed by Melody Wilson
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Eileen Cleary: Child Ward of the Commonwealth
reviewed by Christine Jones
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Andrea Cohen: Everything
reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
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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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Julie Danho: Those Who Keep Arriving
reviewed by Millie Tullis
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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: Drift Migration
reviewed by Michael McLane
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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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John Gerard Fagan: Fish Town
reviewed by Yuki M. Cole
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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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Robert Fillman: House Bird
reviewed by Jennifer Judge -
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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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Katherine Hollander: My German Dictionary
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Kirsten Ihns: sundaey
reviewed by Eran Eads
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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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Kasey Jueds: The Thicket
reviewed by Katherine Indermaur
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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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Dennis H. Lee: Tidal Wave
reviewed by Erica Goss
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Arden Levine: Ladies' Abecedary
reviewed by Jennifer Keith
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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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Sandra Marchetti: Aisle 228
reviewed by Krystal Languell
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Peter Markus: When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
reviewed by Erica Goss
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Anna Maris: lifedeathetc / livdödetc
reviewed by stinne storm
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Jennifer Martelli: All Things Are Born to Change Their Shapes
reviewed by Carla Panciera
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Chris Martin: Becoming Weather
reviewed by Curtis Jensen
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Elizabeth Metzger: Lying In
reviewed by Katherine Indermaur
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Jan Minich: Coming into Grace Harborreviewed by Kate Kingston
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Stelios Mormoris: The Oculus
reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
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Rebecca Hart Olander: Uncertain Acrobats
reviewed by Carla Pancier
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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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Alison Powell: Boats in the Attic
reviewed by Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell: Atomizer
reviewed by Jamie Wendt
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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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Adam Scheffler: Heartworm
reviewed by Matthew Murrey
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Steven Schroeder: The Royal Nonesuch
reviewed by William Neumire
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Heidi Seaborn: An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe
reviewed by Mary Ellen Talley
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Derek Sheffield: Not for Luck
reviewed by Anne Haven McDonnell
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Peggy Shumaker: Cairn: New and Selected
reviewed by Mary Ellen Talley
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Brian Simoneau: No Small Comfort
reviewed by Todd Robinson
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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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Janet Sylvester: And Not to Break
reviewed by Clarissa Adkins
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Nancy Takacs: Blue Patina
reviewed by Kate Kingston
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Nancy Takacs: Dearest Water
reviewed by Kevin Miller
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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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Melanie Rae Thon: As If Fire Could Hide Us
reviewed by Michelle Donahue
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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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Nicole Verrone: Nest of Stars
reviewed by Holly Mason
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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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Holly Lyn Walrath: The Smallest of Bones
reviewed by Jessica Drake-Thomas
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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
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John Sibley Williams: Scale Model of a Country at Dawnreviewed by Linda Scheller