Impossible Belonging, Maya Pindyck’s third collection after Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, received the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry on the heels of her fellowships... Read More

Death of a Salesman casts a theatrical shadow over this wildly thoughtful collection, Elizabeth A. I. Powell’s second after The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize... Read More

As its title suggests, the poems in The Snowbound House contain images of dichotomies: cozy, frightening, warm, freezing. Relaxing in the comfort of home competes with thrilling... Read More

Of the many risks that poets may choose, this one opts—unusually—for quietness. These poems speak in an understated, direct voice, with few verbal flourishes or tricks with... Read More

These poems contain that feeling of inevitability only possible in retrospect. The poet is in control as she reflects on a failed marriage and its accoutrements; for example,... Read More

“Love, what we’ve lived through together / has not killed us yet” are the words of a woman who has lived raw and close to death. The author, a long time AIDS educator,... Read More

“I know that when the storm of Lenin and Stalin came / to outrage itself, poet masses left and Akhmatova / alone remained,” writes Braggs in the title poem of his latest... Read More

The pose Caswell strikes most often is that of a maimed but tough survivor, like his three-legged dog. Rarely pretty, often slightly warped and quirkily funny, these poems... Read More

"Conversations During Sleep" is Michele Wolf’s debut book, but it has none of the raw feel of a typical first book. Wolf has clearly waited a long time for this book;... Read More