What gives a poem with political content its force? How does a poet use lyrical tools—in a book-length narrative—to critique powerful institutions when those very institutions seem too large and […]
Read MoreIN Winter 2017
Recent racial violence in the United States and abroad makes poetry books that take up social justice ever more urgent. Books with explicit political content often eschew the lyrical in […]
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IN Summer 2005
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Tension and Release (on Andrea Cohen’s Furs Not Mine; Celeste Gainey’s The Gaffer; Elizabeth Bradfield’s Once Removed; & Natasha Saje’s Vivarium)
IN Fall 2015