Verse chronicle June 2023
Down on the corner
On new poetry by B. H. Fairchild, Devin Johnston, Sharon Olds, Robin Coste Lewis, Thomas Kinsella & Ada Limón.
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Verse chronicle December 2022
A sentimental education
On Cotton Candy by Ted Kooser, Musical Tables by Billy Collins, Midwood by Jana Prikryl, Songs of the Closing Doors by Patrick Phillips, Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, and Canopy by Linda Gregerson.
Verse chronicle June 2022
Companions of the past
On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
Verse chronicle December 2021
The dead & the naked
On new poetry by Louise Glück, August Kleinzahler, Rita Dove, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon & John Ashbery.
Verse chronicle June 2021
History lessons
A review of “The Historians,” by Eavan Boland, “American Melancholy,” by Joyce Carol Oates, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere,” by Kim Addonizio, “The Caiplie Caves,” by Karen Solie, “Beethoven Variations,” by Ruth Padel & “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman.
Verse chronicle December 2020
Cartes de visite
A review of Runaway, by Jorie Graham, Railsplitter, by Maurice Manning, If Men, Then, by Eliza Griswold, Blizzard, by Henri Cole, and Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Verse chronicle June 2020
The rules of the game
On In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché, Nobody: A Rhapsody to Homer by Alice Oswald, Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, Stranger at Night by Edward Hirsch, After Callimachus by Stephanie Burt, and Summer Snow by Robert Hass.
Verse chronicle December 2019
Truth or consequences
On The Truth about Magic by Atticus, Feel Free by Nick Laird, Arias by Sharon Olds, Song of Songs: A Poem by Sylvie Baumgartel, Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon & Terminator: Poems, 2008–2018 by Richard Kenney.
Verse chronicle June 2019
Down by the Old Mill Stream
On recent poetry.
Verse chronicle December 2018
Identity cards
On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.