Connect the Dots
/What kind of reader would she be, our Poetry Editor asks, if she didn't allow herself to be susceptible to Ange Mlinko's sublime, piercing unreason?
Read MoreA Certain Profit Situation
/a poem
Read MoreAn Excerpt from YOU
/a poem
Read MoreMissed Connections
/Is David Rakoff's novel-in-verse either worthy verse or a worthy novel? Does he pull off a high-wire act, as so many critics have concluded, or is it all a grand illusion?
Read MoreHome, Where the Art Is
/In "Belmont," Stephen Burt, poet of Boston's byways, offers readers verses that so court the senses as almost to confound them, shifting from technical confidence to unstructured questioning. As Kirsten Kaschock writes, "Burt attempts in these pages what Shylock did not dare" ...
Read MoreAugust 2013 Issue
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Read MoreTender Reproach Aeronautics
/a poem
Read MoreJuly 2013 Issue
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Read MoreSecond Glance: Reticent Confessional
/Hospital visits, supermarket checkouts, and casseroles - the odd, unassuming verse of Jenny Bornholdt might leave some critics wondering if it's actually poetry at all. Critic Stephen Akey says her work is intimate yet reserved - and warns us not to expect The Duino Elegies.
Read MoreFour Short Poems
/a poem
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Summer Reading 2012 Continues
/Our feature continues, as more Open Letters folk share their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
Read MoreThe Wandering Page
/Modernist poet P. K. Page may be the most important Canadian author you've never heard of. An impressive new biography, replete with examples of Page's poetry and prose, seeks to remedy that.
Read Morewild swans
/a poem
Read MoreRending the Familiar
/Shane Book’s evocative collection Ceiling of Sticks shows us our familiar world in ways that might surprise even the most jaded reader into optimism about poetry.
Read Morefrom Soft Perimeter
/a poem
Read More“A Crystal Stranger Taking Off Their Mask”
/Constructing a "walrus itself" is a difficult thing to do - but it's just one of the transubstantiations Ben Mirov attempts in his latest collection of poems
Read MoreSilly Like Us: W.H. Auden
/Coming of age after World War I, Auden took the alienation of his generation and sharpened it to a special keenness; he transformed his disaffected modernism into an immortal body of work that still challenges today.
Read MoreThe Impossible Magic of Becoming
/Even the speaker in Jennifer Denrow's new book knows that the California she imagines is one she'll never visit, one that cannot possibly be real - but that's what makes it so alluring.
Read MoreThe Second Line
/A poem
Read Morenew old forest: infrastructure
/a poem
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