Poetry Archives -

Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting ... [Read More]

Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia

September 14, 2018September 15, 2018

Kevin Blankinship Reviews War Songs: ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature ... [Read More]

Neo-Donatists in Eden

May 25, 2018May 29, 2018

Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The ... [Read More]

Honey on a Razorblade

May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to ... [Read More]

A Future for a Handful of Hours

April 27, 2018

Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very ... [Read More]

A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws ... [Read More]

A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist ... [Read More]

The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018

David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with ... [Read More]

The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018

Tom Millay reviews Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart is not one to boast. Nothing in ... [Read More]

An Unreliable Alchemy

November 10, 2017January 3, 2018

Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no ... [Read More]