Poetry Archives

‘When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience’ edited by Kate Lynn Hibbard

February 6, 2013 3 min read

This slim volume is a conscientious effort to showcase the multitude of queer female voices that hail from the Midwest....

‘Looking for The Gulf Motel’ by Richard Blanco

Walter Holland

Poetry Reviews

January 30, 2013 4 min read

Richard Blanco’s Looking for The Gulf Motel (University of Pittsburgh Press) is a compelling series of poems that explore Blanco’s Cuban heritage and his journey from adolescence to manhood... Read More

‘H’ by Jim Elledge

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

January 10, 2013 4 min read

When Walt Whitman declared, “Through me many long dumb voices . . . voices veil’d and I remove the veil,”...

‘The Best American Poetry 2012’ edited by Mark Doty; series editor David Lehman

Walter Holland

Poetry Reviews

December 25, 2012 4 min read

As David Lehman suggests in his foreword to The Best American Poetry 2012, Mark Doty collects a wide variety of poems that have a mysterious and “uncanny” quality, poems which are almost haunted by the “spirit in the dark.” Read More

‘Music for Porn’ by Rob Halpern

Jeffery Berg

Poetry Reviews

December 17, 2012 2 min read

Music for Porn (Nightboat Books) is a linguistic symphony of the fetishization and politicization of the body of the "soldier" and an exploration of intimacy and desire. Read More