Poetry

Poetry by Nance Van Winckel, Reginald Gibbons, Dean Young, Anne Rouse, Stephen Dunn, Doug Anderson, Erin Ferretti Slattery, H. L. Hix, Gerald Stern, David Biespiel, Ed Skoog, Kevin Simmonds, Dick Allen, Richard Hoffman, Amy Beeder, David Baker, and Rosanna Warren. Matthew Doherty sends correspondence from Iraq, David Orr on good poems from bad men, Brenda Wineapple reviews Sharon Olds' Selected Poems, and Jon Mooallem looks closely at Michael Donaghy.
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Poetry by Kay Ryan, Brian Barker, Billy Collins, Paisley Rekdal, Wyatt Prunty, Lawrence Joseph, Bob Hicok, Larry Bradley, Bruce F. Murphy, Greg Glazner, Rachel Wetzsteon, Albert Goldbarth, David Wagoner, Joanie Mackowski, and Stanley Plumly. An excerpt from Donald Hall's memoir about his life with Jane Kenyon, David Barber looks back at Donald Justice's work, Peter Campion: Ten Takes.
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An excerpt of a long poem by Frank Bidart.A special feature this month, Antagonsims: Eavan Boland on Marianne Moore, Stephen Dobyns on Robert Frost, W. S. Di Piero on Philip Larkin, William Logan on Gerard Manley Hopkins, J. D. McClatchy on Rainer Maria Rilke, Kay Ryan on Walt Whitman, Rosanna Warren on H. D. Eleanor Wilner discussing the NEA's Operation Homecoming in her essay "Poetry Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?" Averill Curdy and Dan Chiasson have an exchange on the "Big Three" literary prizes.
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Poetry by Atsuro Riley, Victoria Chang, Rex Wilder, Renée Ashley, Michael Hofmann, Angela Shaw, David Mason, Simone Muench, Samuel Menashe, Anne Coray, and Derek Walcott. Joseph Epstein examines the office of Poet Laureate in his essay "Thank You, No." Also six novelists on six poets: Scott Bradfield on Henri Cole, Emily Barton on Elizabeth Spires, Ben Marcus on Alice Fulton, Kate Bernheimer on Vijay Seshadri, Ira Sher on Carl Phillips, and Rick Moody on Olena Kalytiak Davis.
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Poetry by Eleanor Wilner, Geoffrey Brock, Neisha Tweed, Conor O'Callaghan, Dave Lucas, Daisy Fried, Yvonne C. Murphy, Randall Mann, Constance Merritt, Sherod Santos, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Paul Guest, W. S. Di Piero, Molly McQuade, Timothy Murphy, Connie Wanek, Barbara DeCesare, John Savoie, William Hathaway, and Charles Wright. Also Eight Takes by David Orr, Adam Kirsch's "Out of the Republic, Into the Madhouse," Danielle Chapman's closer look at Samuel Menashe, and Donald Hall remembers Thom Gunn.
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A special double issue dedicated to contemporary British poetry. Poems by Christopher Logue, Roddy Lumsden, Kathleen Jamie, George Szirtes, Maura Dooley, Jo Shapcott, Michael Donaghy, Gillian Allnutt, Philip Gross, Robert Crawford, John Glenday, Anne Rouse, Helen Dunmore, Don Paterson. Michael Hofmann and William Logan have a conversation on British and American poetry, Naeem Murr examines poetry readings, Sandra Gilbert: Common Wealth, Brian Phillips: Ten Takes, Letter to the Editor from Rita Dove.
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Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Zach Finch, Moira Egan, Nance Van Winckel, Fred Muratori, Susanne Dubroff, Scott Cairns, Kevin Young, Averill Curdy, Jeanne Murray Walker, Debora Greger, Kevin Meaux, Meghan Hickey, James Ragan, Mark Jarman, David Lehman, Stephen Dobyns, Billy Collins, Arthur Meryash, Bob Hicok, Lynne Knight, Lynn Powell. Also W.S. Di Piero on memory and poetry, Peter Campion on four poets and "accessibility."
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Poetry by A.E. Stallings, Kay Ryan, Bruce Smith, Campbell McGrath, Wyn Cooper, Michael Chitwood, Taije Silverman, Bob Watts, Dionisio D. Martinez, Bill Coyle, Vicki Hearne, Michael Ryan, Greg Rappleye, Elizabeth Spires, George Bilgere, Samuel Menashe, Dana Gioia and August Kleinzahler on Garrison Keillor's Good Poems, Peter Campion: Tuned to the Fact.
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Poetry by Atsuro Riley, Meg Kearney, Charles Wright, Jody Gladding, W.S. Merwin, Melanie Almeder, William Logan, J. Allyn Rosser, Joan Murray, John Lee Clark, David Hedges, Bill Knott, Meghan O'Rourke on Sylvia Plath, Steven Cramer on Four First Books.
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Poetry by Amy Beeder, Robert Wrigley, David Swerdlow, Anne-Marie Cusac, Ralph Sneeden, Reginald Gibbons, Elizabeth Hadaway, R.T. Smith, David Baker, Dabney Stuart, Joel Brouwer, Linda Pastan, Carol Frost, Sherod Santos, William Olsen, Michael Hofmann on Ted Hughes, Brian Phillips: Ten Takes, Letter to the Editor from Sandra Gilbert.
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Poetry by W. S. Di Piero, Pattiann Rogers, Stephen Dunn, Dana Levin, Dan Howell, Patty Seyburn, David Mason, A.F. Moritz, Peter Campion, Brian Swann, Elton Glaser, Mary Karr, J.T. Barbarese, David Biespiel, Meghan O'Rourke & A.E. Stallings on Lorine Niedecker, Aleksandar Hemon on August Kleinzahler, Jon Mooallem on Anthony Hecht, Martha Nussbaum on Mary Kinzie, Letters to the Editor from Eavan Boland, Mary Kinzie, Brian Phillips, Peter Campion, and Emily Warn.
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