Poetry by Individual Poets

The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Y...

In the Postface to his 114 Songs of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, a...

The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet,...

When Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary worl...

Mary Leader's The Wood That Will Be Used is a tour de force exemplifying what results from a lifetime of labor in the word, a lifetime of one's por...

Like the landscapes where the poet walks, climbs and watches, language is fractured in these poems. The reader becomes a climber too among words th...

without title : it's a modest name for a book, but also a refusal of the very idea of human ownership of land (was there ever a sillier phrase than...