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Poetry

Commentary |January 6, 2026

on The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue & Matthew Hollis

reviewed by Christian Detisch

“From the first, his poems dug down into memory to find their source. Or, more precisely, the excavation of memory — both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it — is his subject.”
Commentary |January 6, 2026

on Transit, poems by David Baker

reviewed by Michael Collins

“So many varieties of transit take place, between modes of consciousness, different forms and self-states of writing and reading, awareness of experience, mortality, and textual legacy.”
Commentary |January 6, 2026

on Beckomberga, a novel by Sara Stridsberg, translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

reviewed by Mark Athitakis

“Stridsberg’s concerns go beyond the usual fictional conflicts—she’s looking for deeper schisms between the sane and the mad, the living and the dead, despair over our fate and our acceptance of it.”
Commentary |January 6, 2026

on The New Economy, poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

reviewed by Kimberly Grey

“This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal, and ethical terrain of the collection.”

Poetry

Poetry |December 1, 2018

“You Are In Assisi and I’m Not”

a poem by Tim Suermondt

Poetry |November 29, 2018

“Xero”

a prose poem by Claire Wahmanholm

“We knew what happened to children born during wartime. We had seen the exhibits, had looked at the pictures without fully looking.”

Poetry |November 26, 2018

Three Sonnets

poetry by Diane Seuss

Poetry |November 20, 2018

“Killing A Turkey At Belle’s”

a poem by Elizabeth Jacobson

Poetry |November 16, 2018

“Deathbed”

a poem by Robert Wrigley

Poetry |November 13, 2018

“The 1980s,” “Long Beach” and “American Poetry”

three poems by Randall Mann

Poetry |November 11, 2018

“Make It”

a poem by Leah Umansky

Poetry |November 8, 2018

“Self-Portrait at Midlife Crisis”

a poem by Philip Metres

Poetry |November 5, 2018

“The ABCs of ‘Of’”

a poem by John Yau

Poetry |November 1, 2018

“Lines About The Wind”

a poem by Stuart Dischell

Poetry |October 30, 2018

“What We Did Before Our Apocalypse” and “Autobiography”

two poems by Kristen Tracy

Poetry |October 29, 2018

Four Poems

by Andrea Cohen

Poetry |October 26, 2018

“A Letter to Lucie About Lucie”

by Shane McCrae

Poetry |October 22, 2018

“Fine”

a poem by Carl Phillips

Poetry |October 18, 2018

“Awful Precinct”

a poem by Connie Voisine