“You Are In No Position to Criticize Anyone”
From From by Monica Youn | reviewed by Mariam Ahmed
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris | reviewed by Arthur Kayzakian
Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection by James Sherry | Reviewed by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke edited by William Barillas | Reviewed by Alexander Long
The Child Who by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston | Reviewed by Jaclyn Youhana Garver
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani | Reviewed by Brent Ameneyro
Index of Haunted Houses by Adam O. Davis | Alonso Llerena looks inside this debut collection
Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic, edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine | Reviewed by Alexa T. Dodd
Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart: Last Poems by Peter Everwine | Reviewed by Alexander Long
The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North Korea is a collection of piercing poems from the author Bandi, who writes under the pseudonym that means “firefly.”
In award-winning Canadian poet Russell Thornton’s The Broken Face, he expertly intertwines themes of memory and place with the metaphysical and natural world, often through deeply personal portraits of his own family and experiences. In “Sirens” the speaker’s tiny son is excited by the sound of a fire truck blaring below their apartment window: “wild …
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