All Episodes

Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026)

Christopher R. Rogers, "My City Need Something" (Common Notions, 2026)

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Molly Peacock, "The Widow’s Crayon Box" (WW Norton & Co, 2025)

Phillip B. Williams, "Lift Every Voice" (Penguin, 2026)

In Praise: A Conversation with Texas Poet Laureate & Founder of Torch Literary Arts, Amanda Johnston

Donna Vorreyer, "Unrivered" (Sundress Publications, 2025)

Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose

Laurie D. Graham, "Calling It Back to Me: Poems" (Random House, 2026)

Jaime Forsythe, "Yield" (Buckrider Books, 2026)

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)

chaun webster, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" (Greywolf, 2026)

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)

Alex Averbuch, "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Elizabeth Bradfield's Books in Dark Times (JP)

Sharon Israel, "Voice Lesson" (Post Traumatic Press, 2017)

Sarah Jean Grimm, "Hog Lagoon" (blush, 2023) and "Soft Focus" (Metatron, 2017)

Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems

Jennifer Wong, "Light Year" (Nine Arches Press, 2025)

Sarah Howe, "Foretokens" (Random House, 2025)

Crystal Simone Smith, "Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizen's of America: An Erasure" (Beacon, 2026)

Manuel Iris, "The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)

Diamond Forde, "The Book of Alice" (Scribner, 2026)

David Martin, "nightstead" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)

Darius Phelps, "My God’s Been Silent" (Writ Large Press, 2026)

Guy Elston, "The Character Actor Convention" (Gordon Hill Press/Porcupine's Quill, 2025)

Sunil Iyengar, "The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse" (Franciscan UP, 2025)

Khashayar Kess Mohammadim, "The Book of Interruptions" (Buckrider Books, 2025)

Margo LaPierre, "Ajar" (Guernica Editions, 2025)

Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)

Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, "Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution" (Guernica Editions, 2025)

Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)

Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)

Paul Vermeersch, "NMLCT: Poems" (ECW Press, 2025)

Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)

Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum, "Fight or Flight" (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2023)

Rayanne Haines, "What Kind of Daughter" (Frontenac House Press, 2024)

Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)

Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)

Eli Clare, "Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming" (Duke UP, 2025)

Lillian Allen et. al, "Muttertongue: What Is a Word in Utter Space" (Exile Editions, 2025)

Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)

Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025)

Lorne Daniel, "What Is Broken Binds Us" (U Calgary Press, 2025)

Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)

Carlene Kucharczyk, "Strange Hymn: Poems" (U Mass Press, 2025)

Patrick Grace, "Deviant" (U Alberta Press, 2024)

Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),

Adam Bremer-McCollum, "The Pearlsong" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025)

Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025)

Farah Ghafoor, "Shadow Price: Poems" (House of Anansi, 2025)

Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

Tea Gerbeza, "How I Bend Into More" (Anstruther Books, 2025)

Aurora Levins Morales, "Silt: Prose Poems" (Palabrera Press, 2019)

Ashley M. Jones, "Lullaby for the Grieving" (Hub City Press, 2025)

Therí Alyce Pickens, "What Had Happened Was" (Duke UP, 2025)

Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)

Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

Zachari Logan, "Green" (Radiant Press, 2025).

Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)

MA|DE, "ZZOO" (Anstruther Books, 2025)

Chris Hutchinson, "Lost Signal" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)

Tracy Wai de Boer, "Nostos" (Anstruther Books, 2025)

Kathryn Mockler, "Anecdotes" (Book*hug Press, 2023)

Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew eds., "A Thousand Tiny Awakenings" (Latitude 46, 2025)

Callista Markotich, "Wrap in a Big White Towel" (Frontenac House, 2024)

Elizabeth Greene, "No Ordinary Days" (Ekstasis Editions, 2025)

Rebecca Salazar, "antibody: poems" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)

Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)

Thomas Leduc, "Palpitations" (Latitude 46, 2025)

Christine McNair, "Toxemia" (Book*hug Press, 2024)

Manahil Bandukwala, "Heliotropia" (Brick Books, 2024)

Rosa Castellano, "All Is the Telling" (Diode, 2025)

Kyle Flemmer, "Supergiants" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Nothingism

Lauren K. Watel, "Book of Potions" (Sarabande Books, 2024)

Michael Blouin, "Hard Electric" (Anvil Press, 2024)

Chris Bailey, "Forecast: Pretty Bleak" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)

Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron

Your Devotee in Rags

Diamond Forde, "Mother Body" (Saturnalia Books, 2021)

Stedmond Pardy, "Beached Whales" (Mosaic Press, 2024)

Tolu Oloruntoba, "Unravel" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)

Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)

Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)

Charlie Petch, "Why I Was Late" (Brick Books, 2021)

The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana

Ronald Okuaki Lieber, "The Long Journey Out" (Wipf and Stock, 2023)

Rob Winger, "It Doesn't Matter What We Mean" (McClelland & Stewart, 2021)

Jehanne Dubrow, "Civilians" (LSU Press, 2025)

Kirby, "She" (Knife, Fork, Book, 2024)

Catherine Owen, "Moving to Delilah" (Freehand Books, 2024)

George Elliott Clarke, "Canticles II (MMXX)" (Guernica, 2020)

Gray Davidson Carroll, "Silent Spring," The Common magazine

Poetry

Natasha Ramoutar, "Baby Cerberus" (Buckrider Books, 2024)

Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)

Yitzchak Etshalom, "Amos: The Genius of Prophetic Rhetoric" (Maggid, 2024)

S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor

Ellen Chang-Richardson, "Blood Belies" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)

Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)

Tim Bowling, "In the Capital City of Autumn" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)

Armand Garnet Ruffo, "The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022)

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, "Prayers of a Heretic: Poems" (Plain View Press, 2015)

Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Tikva Hecht, "Tashlikh" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)

Nicholas Molbert, "Altars of Spine and Fraction" (Curbstone Press/Northwestern UP, 2024)

Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines

Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)

Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024)

Christian J. Collier, "Greater Ghost" (Four Way Books, 2024)

Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Kendra Sullivan, "Reps" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024)

Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)

Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)

David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

Herbert Gold and Ari Gold, "Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems" (Rare Bird Books, 2024)

Millicent Borges Accardi, "Quarantine Highway" (Flowersong Press, 2022)

Karen Rigby, "Fabulosa" (JackLeg Press, 2024)

Cynthia Marie Hoffman, "Exploding Head" (Persea Books, 2024)

Adi Wolfson, "I Am Your Father" (Pardes Press, 2019)

Ran Oron, "He Could See a Bird Outside if He Looked Through His Window" (Persimmon Books, 2023)

Elizabeth Hoover, "The Archive Is All in Present Tense" (Barrow Street Press, 2022)

Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 3

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2

Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives

Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1

Katherine Gaffney, "Fool in a Blue House" (U Tampa Press, 2023)

Ann C. Bracken, "Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery" (Charing Cross Press, 2022)

Christopher Spaide, "Closure?" The Common Magazine (May 2023)

Caitlin Cowan, "Happy Everything" (Cornerstone Press, 2024)

Christopher Merrill, "On the Road to Lviv" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

Jane Hirshfield, "The Asking: New and Selected Poems" (Knopf, 2023)

Alyssa Noelle Coelho, "The Alchemy of the Beast" (Saved by Story, 2023)

Amy Berkowitz, "Gravitas" (Éditions du Noroît/Total Joy, 2023)

Dong Li, "The Orange Tree" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

A Better Way to Buy Books

David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

Molly Peacock, "A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)

Linda Nemec Foster, "Bone Country: Prose Poems" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

Matt Donovan, "Guy with a Gun" The Common Magazine (Fall, 2023)

Rachel Mennies, "The Naomi Letters" (BOA Editions, 2021)

Jenifer Debellis, "New Wilderness" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

Proust Questionnaire 38: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

Michele Herman, "Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes" (Finishing Line Press, 2022)

Mag Gabbert, "Sex Depression Animals" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)

Emily Hockaday, "Naming the Ghost" (Cornerstone Press, 2022)

Halyna Kruk, "A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)

Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

Heather Bourbeau, "Monarch" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)

Lavinia Singer, "Artifice" (Prototype, 2023)

Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)

Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)

Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)

Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)

Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form

Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Lyudmyla Khersonska, "Today is a Different War" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)

Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)

Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)

Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)

Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)

Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)

On W. H. Auden

Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)

Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jemma Borg, "Wilder" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)

Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)

Ellen Doré Watson, “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Kristina Marie Darling, "Daylight Has Already Come" (Black Lawrence Press, 2022)

Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)

Jane Satterfield, "Letter to Emily Brontë," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)

Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)

Kathleen Rooney, "Where are the Snows: Poems" (Texas Review Press, 2022)

Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)

Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles

Mark Kyungsoo Bias, "Adoption Day," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Ghazal

On Koans

Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)

81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

Alison Calder, "Synaptic" (U Regina Press, 2022)

Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)

Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)

Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)

80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Sean Singer, "Today in the Taxi" (Tupelo Press, 2022)

Romeo Oriogun, "The Sea Dreams of Us," Common magazine (Fall, 2021)

Farzana Doctor, "You Still Look the Same" (Freehand Books, 2022)

Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)

Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)

James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)

Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)

Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)

Valerie Chepp, "Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Tom Sleigh, “Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter,” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)

75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield

Olive Senior, "Pandemic Poems: First Wave" (2021)

74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places

Mary Soon Lee, "The Sign of the Dragon" (Jaberwocky, 2020)

E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition

Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

Kate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"

Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke

Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)

Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)

Ana Castillo, "My Book of the Dead: New Poems" (High Road Books, 2021)

Ricardo Wilson, "nigrescence" (The Common magazine, Spring, 2021)

Shachar-Mario Mordechai, "Make Room for the Rain" (Pardes, 2019)

Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)

Rachel Zolf, "No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics" (Duke UP, 2021)

Maria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Robert Lashley, "Green River Valley" (Blue Cactus Press, 2021)

Ariana Brown, "We Are Owed." (Grieveland Press, 2021)

Carl Marcum, "A Camera Obscura" (Red Hen Press, 2021)

Wyatt Townley, “Instructions for the Endgame" The Common magazine (Spring, 2021)

Kevin Quashie, "Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being" (Duke UP, 2021)

Anahid Nersessian, "Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Bethany Hicok, "Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive" (Lever Press, 2020)

Nicole Danielle, "Broken Ballads: A Poetry Collection" (2019)

KC Trommer, “The Couple,” The Common magazine (Fall, 2020)

Kevin M. Jones, "The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

Jennifer Jean, “California” The Common magazine (Fall 2020)

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, "The Translator of Desires: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)

Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Eleni Kefala, "The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)

Danielle Rose, "At First & Then" (Black Lawrence Press, 2019)

Joshua Bennett, "Owed" (Penguin, 2020)

Sarah J. Sloat, "Hotel Almighty" (Sarabande, 2020)

James Hadley and Nell Regan, "A Gap in the Clouds: A New Translation of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" (Dedalus Press, 2020)

Anna Veprinska, "Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis" (Palgrave, 2021)

Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press, 2016)

Sharon Olds, "Arias" (Knopf, 2019)

Lauren Russell, "Descent" (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020)

Tara Skurtu, "Offering," The Common magazine (Spring, 2020)

Roy G. Guzmán, "Catrachos" (Graywolf Press, 2020)

Shakira Croce, "Leave It Raw" (Finishing Line Press, 2020)

Kelly Harris-DeBerry, "Freedom Knows My Name" (Xavier Review Press, 2020)

Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)

Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison Books, 2016)

Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019)

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)

Sarah M. Sala, "Devil's Lake" (Tolsun Books, 2020)

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pronto, 2019)

Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness" (Cornell UP, 2016)

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli" (Penguin, 2010)

Sarah Adleman, "The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother Echoes" (Tolsun, 2019)

Great Books: Maureen McLane on Wordsworth's Poetry

Octavia Cade, "Mary Shelley Makes a Monster" (Aqueduct Press, 2019)

Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry

Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr” (Northwestern UP, 2018)

Eliza Griswold, "If Men, Then" (FSG, 2020)

Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books, 2019)

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prophet"

Becca Klaver, "Ready for the World" (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)

Joyce Ashuntantang, "A Basket of Flaming Ashes" (African Books Collective, 2010)

Emily Skaja, "Brute" (Graywolf Press, 2019)

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Tamara J. Madison, "Threed, This Road Not Damascus" (Trio House, 2019)

Deborah L. Davitt, "The Gates of Never" (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother F*cker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough"

jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" (Nightboat Books, 2019)

Dean Anthony Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima” (Routledge, 2018)

John Sibley Williams, "As One Fire Consumes Another" (Orison Books, 2019)

Sally Wen Mao, "Oculus" (Graywolf Press, 2019)

J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes About Death"

Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry" (U Michigan Press, 2018)

Frances Donovan, "Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore" (Reaching Press, 2018)

Sara Tantlinger, "The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes" (StrangeHouse Books, 2018)

Isobel O’Hare, "all this can be yours" (University of Hell Press, 2019)

Megan Burns, "Basic Programming" (Lavender Ink, 2018)

Ivy Johnson, "Born Again" (The Operating System, 2018)

Emily Jungmin Yoon, "A Cruelty Special to Our Species" (Ecco Books, 2018)

Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)

Vernon Keeve III, “Southern Migrant Mixtape” (Nomadic Press, 2018)

Nick Admussen, “Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry” (U Hawaii Press, 2016)

Interview with Australian Poets Leni Shilton and Renee Pettitt-Schipp

Liam Cole Young, “List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)

Daniel Kane, “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City” (Columbia UP, 2017)

Patricia Spears Jones, “A Lucent Fire: New and Collected Poems” (White Pines Press, 2015)

Leia Penina Wilson, “i built a boat with all the towels in your closet” (Red Hen Press, 2014)

Maria G. Rewakowicz, “Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets” (Academic Studies Press, 2014)

Ashaki Jackson, “Language Lesson” (Miel Books, 2016)

Terence Degnan, “Still Something Rattles” (Sock Monkey Press, 2016)

Margaret Bashaar “Some Other Stupid Fruit: A Problematic Feminist Narrative” (Agape Editions, 2016)

Anthony Cappo, “My Bedside Radio” (Deadly Chaps Press, 2016)

Jonathan Brooks Platt, “Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard” (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

July Westhale “The Cavalcade” (Finishing Line Press, 2016)

Noah Stetzer, “I Could See Needing a Knife” (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016)

Ashaki Jackson, “Surveillance” (Writ Large Press, 2016)

Heidi Czerwiec, “Sweet/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle” (Gazing Grain Press, 2016)

Roy Guzman, “Restored Mural for Orlando/Mural Restaurado Para Orlando” (Queerodactyl Press, 2016)

Kate Partridge, “Intended American Dictionary” (Miel Press, 2016)

Kristen Case, “Abdication: Emily Dickinson’s Failures of Self” (Essay Press, 2015)

Amy Wright, “Cracker Sonnets” (BrickRoad Poetry Press, 2016)

Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith, “Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity” (Sundress Publications, 2016)

Janice A. Lowe, “LEAVING CLE: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal” (Miami University Press, 2016)

Rodrigo Toscano, “Explosion Rocks Springfield” (Fence Books, 2016)

Paul Rouzer, “On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems” (U. of Washington Press, 2015)

Simon Critchley, “ABC of Impossibility” (Univocal Publishing, 2015)

Tina Escaja, “Free Fall/Caida libre” (Fomite Press, 2015)

James Franco, “Directing Herbert White” (Graywolf Press, 2014)

Mary Meriam, Lillian Faderman, Amy Lowell, “Lady of the Moon” (Headmistress Press, 2015)

Marisa Crawford, “Big Brown Bag” (Gazing Grain Press, 2015)

Anders Carlson-Wee, “Dynamite” (Bull City Press, 2015)

Lynn Strongin, “The Burn Poems” (Headmistress Press, 2015)

Alexis Rhone Fancher, “State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies” (KYSO Flash Press, 2015)

Hope Wabuke, “Movement No. 1: Trains” (Dancing Girl Press, 2015)

Lauren Gordon, “Fiddle is Flood” (Blood Pudding Press, 2015)

Tim Tomlinson, “Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse” (Finishing Line Press, 2015)

Metta Sama, “le animal and other creatures” (Miel Press, 2015)

Suzanne Bottelli, “The Feltville Formation” (Finishing Line Press, 2015)

Ross White, “How We Came Upon the Colony” (Unicorn Press, 2014)

Ryo Yamaguchi, “The Refusal of Suitors” (Noemi Press, 2015)

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, “Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation” (Grand Concourse Press, 2015)

Karina Borowicz, “Proof” (Codhill Press, 2014)

Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick, eds. “Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation” (Viking, 2015)

Daniel Tiffany, “My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch” (John Hopkins UP, 2014)

Rachel Mennies, “The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards” (Texas Tech UP, 2014)

Rountable on the Poetry of Xu Lizhi

Ailish Hopper, “Dark Sky Society” (New Issues Press, 2014)

Becca J.R. Lachman, “A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford” (Woodley Press, 2013)

Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay, “Lace and Pyrite” (Organic Weapon Arts Press, 2014)

Rachel Moritz, “Many Forms in Water” (above/ground press, 2014)

Nikki Wallschlaeger “I Would Be the Happiest Bird” (Horseless Press, 2014)

Daniel Borzutzky, “Bedtime Stories for the End of the World!” (Bloof Books, 2014)

Amber Atiya, “the fierce bums of doo wop” (Argos Books, 2014)

Ashley Inguanta “For the Woman Alone” (Ampersand Books, 2014)

Ken Pobo “When the Light Turns Green”

Laura Foley, “Joy Street” (Headmistress Press, 2014)

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, “The Greenhouse” (Bull City Press, 2014)

Leslie McGrath, “By the Windpipe” (ELJ Publications, 2014)

Yu Han Chao, “One Woman Fruit Stand” (Imaginary Friend Press, 2014)

Dan Brady “Cabin Fever/Fossil Record” (Flying Guillotine Press, 2014)

Megan Moriarty “From the Dictionary of Living Things”

Lyric Hunter “Swallower” (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014)

Leah Umansky, “Don Dreams and I Dream” (Kattywompus Press, 2014)

Darryl Whetter, “Origins” (Palimpsest Press, 2012)

Dorothea Lasky, “Rome” (Liveright, 2014)

Kerry James Evans, “Bangalore” (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)

Kamilah Aisha Moon, “She Has A Name” (Four Way Books, 2014)

Eliza Griswold, “I am a Beggar of the World” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014)

Cedar Sigo, “Language Arts” (Wave Books, 2014)

Kevin Prufer “Churches” (Four Way Books, 2014)

Venus Thrash, “The Fateful Apple” (Urban Poets and Lyricists, 2014)

Jason Koo, “America’s Favorite Poem” (C and R Press, 2014)

Mark Wunderlich, “The Earth Avails” (Graywolf Press, 2014)

Kenneth Goldsmith, “Seven American Deaths and Disasters” (powerHouse Books, 2013)

David Biespiel, “Charming Gardeners” (University of Washington Press, 2013)

Don Share, “Wishbone” (Black Sparrow, 2012)

Adam Fitzgerald, “The Late Parade” (Liveright, 2013)

Ange Mlinko, “Marvelous Things Overheard” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)

Stephanie Strickland, “Dragon Logic” (Ahsahta Press, 2013)

Mary Ruefle, “Trances of the Blast” (Wave Books, 2013)

William Logan, “Madame X” (Penguin Books, 2012)

Paul Killebrew “Ethical Consciousness” (Canarium Books, 2013)

Michael Robbins, “Alien vs. Predator” (Penguin Books, 2012)

Dana Gioia, “Pity the Beautiful” (Graywolf Press, 2012)

Lisa Olstein, “Little Stranger” (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)

Stephen Burt “Belmont” (Graywolf Press, 2013)

Katy Didden, “The Glacier’s Wake” (Pleiades Press, 2013)

James Longenbach, “The Virtues of Poetry” (Graywolf Press, 2013)

Joshua Edwards, “Imperial Nostalgias” (Ugly Duckling Press, 2013)

Erica Wright, “Instructions for Killing the Jackal” (Black Lawrence Press, 2011)

Kevin Goodan, “Upper Level Disturbances” (Center for Literary Publishing, 2012)

Matthew Pennock, “Sudden Dog” (Alice James Books, 2012)

Samuel Amadon, “The Hartford Book: Poems” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012)

Lucas Klein (trans.), “Xi Chuan’s Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems” (New Directions, 2012)

Curtis Crisler, “Pulling Scabs” (Aquarius Press, 2009)

Makalani Bandele, “Hellfightin'” (Willow Books, 2012)

Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson

Nikky Finney, “Head Off and Split: Poems” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP, 2010)