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Steve Schwartz It seems to me one useful polarity by which to sort poets might run from “realistic” to “idealistic.” In other words, some poets spend most of their time…

Will Grofic When my instructor Timothy Liu insisted I read Vasko Popa’s The Little Box (translations by Charles Simic), I dutifully looked it up online and was ready to buy. After I…

Traci O’Dea Aaron Poochigian’s new translation of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Jason & the Argonauts demands to be read aloud—lines of perfect, unforced iambic pentameter make it as lyrical as Shelley or Frost.…

Traci O’Dea An interrobang is a little known punctuation mark that depicts a question mark and an exclamation point joined together, sharing the same dot. Jessica Piazza could not have…

Kristina Marie Darling The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems spans thirty-four years of acclaimed writer Eric Pankey’s literary career.  Including excerpts from seven previous collections, as well as…

Jason Gray Eric Pankey’s new book, Oracle Figures, opens with an attempt at opening. The speaker of this, and of all these poems, is one looking for a way in, but…

Andrew Shields Smartish Pace – Issue 15by Smartish PaceSmartish Pace, Inc.2008$10 Issue 15 of Smartish Pace contains three of my translations from the French of poems by JacquesRéda: “The Jay,” “The Milk…

Kascha Semonovitch Observing thoughts, as a Buddhist might, does not make art, although it might make a better person.   The narrator of Alice Notley’s Culture of One has realized this distinction…

Joyce S. Brown The poetry in Marilyn Nelson’s 1997 National Book Award Finalist collection of new and selected poems, The Fields of Praise, varies richly in both subject matter and technique.…

Eric Hoffman In this excellent collection of poems, Robert Murphy’s language is elemental. The earth and his sense of the musicality of language are unparalleled: Murphy revels in language, and…

Maggie Schwed This first book of poems by Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone(Turtle Point Press, 2006), gives a hint of its wit in the…

Haines Eason We just may witness open dialogue between our nation and Cuba in the foreseeable future. And since the silence between our countries was part of a border of…