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Poetry

Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein

reviewed by Hamilton Cain

“As this timely, incisive book suggests, liberty exists for the elect few, the rest of us be damned — a notion as American as Mom and apple pie.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond, translated from the Spanish & introduced by Forrest Gander

reviewed by Matt Reeck

“The poetry strips back the extra, the social, the trauma of living with people, to try to get to a physical, spiritual core that connects us across chronological time and to the physical world.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on New York Trilogy, poetry by Peter Balakian

reviewed by Matthew Cooperman

“His work takes on the larger picture of historical formation, human rights writ large, and its accretive echo across time, while also reveling in the very material culture that sustains it.”
Commentary |July 7, 2026

on Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, essays by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

reviewed by Dorian Stuber

“She urges all of us who live primarily in one language to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between and within languages.”

Poetry

Poetry |September 22, 2020

“Gilgamesh” and “Midas”

two poems by Dawid Juraszek

Poetry |September 22, 2020

“Six O’Clock” and “Midtown”

two poems by Sally Dawidoff

Poetry |September 8, 2020

“A Little String of Lights,” “What Is Poetry And Why Do You Write It?” “Boundary Hedge” & “Hold My Spot”

four poems by Mary Ann Samyn

Poetry |September 8, 2020

“Fake News Bus Stop Prayer”

a poem by Matt Donovan

Poetry |September 8, 2020

“Bookish”

a poem by Peter Cooley

Poetry |August 24, 2020

“The impossible in which I believe”

a poem by A. M. Juster

celebrating the birth of Jorge Luis Borges on August 24, 1899 …

Poetry |August 12, 2020

“The Monitor,” “Dust” and “Bottle Green”

three poems by Leah Falk

Poetry |August 12, 2020

“Coronae”

a poem by Elizabeth Jacobson

Poetry |August 12, 2020

“The Nominalism of Childhood”

a poem by Chard deNiord

Poetry |August 4, 2020

“The Trucks” and “In My Country”

two poems by Wayne Miller

Poetry |August 4, 2020

“Selfie After a Bad Week” and “Ars Poetica”

two poems by Heidi Seaborn

Poetry |August 4, 2020

“Blame”

a poem by John Skoyles

Poetry |August 4, 2020

“Devil Has Questions” and “Devil Vexed by Such Grand, Meandering Duende”

two poems by Charlie Clark

Poetry |August 4, 2020

“My Mother’s Autograph Album”

a poem by Judith Harris

Poetry |July 29, 2020

“The Coming of the Jellyfish”

a poem by Amit Majmudar