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reviews in contemporary poetry // ed. christopher kempf
PREPOSITION reviews ARS POETICAS (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Juliana Spahr.
Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum.
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Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PREPOSITION reviews ARS POETICAS (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Juliana Spahr.
Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum.
www.prepositionmag.com/spahr-ars-po...
Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum.
www.prepositionmag.com/spahr-ars-po...
PREPOSITION reviews LOST CITIES (Persea, 2025) by Valencia Robin.
"...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..."
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"...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..."
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October 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
PREPOSITION reviews LOST CITIES (Persea, 2025) by Valencia Robin.
"...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..."
www.prepositionmag.com/robin-lost-c...
"...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..."
www.prepositionmag.com/robin-lost-c...
Angie Estes "earned a Ph.D. but never an MFA, so she never got run out of workshop for breaking the standard MFA rules: no fancy vocabulary; for god’s sake no foreign phrases unless they came from your grandmother; no punning or rhyming; no highbrow allusion."
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Questions of Compression | Ange Mlinko
T.S. Eliot prophesied it: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” In May 2005, when Peter Balakian visited the monument to the victims of the
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October 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Angie Estes "earned a Ph.D. but never an MFA, so she never got run out of workshop for breaking the standard MFA rules: no fancy vocabulary; for god’s sake no foreign phrases unless they came from your grandmother; no punning or rhyming; no highbrow allusion."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
PREPOSITION reviews BEES, AND AFTER (@yalepress.bsky.social) by John Liles.
Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career...
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Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career...
www.prepositionmag.com/liles-bees-a...
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PREPOSITION reviews BEES, AND AFTER (@yalepress.bsky.social) by John Liles.
Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career...
www.prepositionmag.com/liles-bees-a...
Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career...
www.prepositionmag.com/liles-bees-a...
PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman.
"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."
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"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."
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August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman.
"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."
www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...
"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."
www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...
PREPOSITION reviews ENTER (@graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Jim Moore.
Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'"
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Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'"
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July 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
PREPOSITION reviews ENTER (@graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Jim Moore.
Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'"
www.prepositionmag.com/moore-enter
Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'"
www.prepositionmag.com/moore-enter
PREPOSITION reviews [GAMEROVER (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, 2025) by Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ryan Greene.
Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism.
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Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
PREPOSITION reviews [GAMEROVER (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, 2025) by Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ryan Greene.
Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism.
www.prepositionmag.com/huapaya-game...
Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism.
www.prepositionmag.com/huapaya-game...
PREPOSITION reviews MOVING THE BONES (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2024) by Rick Barot.
"Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement."
Link below and in bio...
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"Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement."
Link below and in bio...
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June 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
PREPOSITION reviews MOVING THE BONES (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2024) by Rick Barot.
"Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement."
Link below and in bio...
www.prepositionmag.com/barot-moving...
"Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement."
Link below and in bio...
www.prepositionmag.com/barot-moving...
PREPOSITION reviews ECSTASY (Penguin, 2025) by Alex Dimitrov.
"While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..."
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"While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..."
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May 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
PREPOSITION reviews ECSTASY (Penguin, 2025) by Alex Dimitrov.
"While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..."
www.prepositionmag.com/dimitrov-ecs...
"While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..."
www.prepositionmag.com/dimitrov-ecs...
PREPOSITION reviews ALL EMPIRES MUST (Airlie Press, 2025) by Mia Kang.
"Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places."
www.prepositionmag.com/kang-all-emp...
"Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places."
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May 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
PREPOSITION reviews ALL EMPIRES MUST (Airlie Press, 2025) by Mia Kang.
"Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places."
www.prepositionmag.com/kang-all-emp...
"Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places."
www.prepositionmag.com/kang-all-emp...
PREPOSITION reviews IF NOTHING (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2024) by Matthew Nienow.
It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration.
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It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
PREPOSITION reviews IF NOTHING (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2024) by Matthew Nienow.
It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration.
www.prepositionmag.com/nienow-if-no...
It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration.
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PREPOSITION reviews HELEN OF TROY, 1993 (Scribner, 2025) by Maria Zoccola.
"One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine."
www.prepositionmag.com/zoccola-hot-93
"One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine."
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March 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
PREPOSITION reviews HELEN OF TROY, 1993 (Scribner, 2025) by Maria Zoccola.
"One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine."
www.prepositionmag.com/zoccola-hot-93
"One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine."
www.prepositionmag.com/zoccola-hot-93
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What surreal joy it is to be entrusted with the publication of Angie Estes' seventh collection. She is among our nation's very finest poets... and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for very good reasons! www.unboundedition.com/product/last...
Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City | Angie Estes | Poetry - Unbound Edition Press
A dedication to the transformative power of language itself defines Estes' Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City. These poems excavate Baudelairean correspondences -- secret relations in the world of ...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What surreal joy it is to be entrusted with the publication of Angie Estes' seventh collection. She is among our nation's very finest poets... and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for very good reasons! www.unboundedition.com/product/last...
PREPOSITION reviews AFTER IMAGE (Copper Canyon, 2024) by Jenny George.
"In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity."
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"In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity."
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February 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
PREPOSITION reviews AFTER IMAGE (Copper Canyon, 2024) by Jenny George.
"In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity."
www.prepositionmag.com/george-after...
"In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity."
www.prepositionmag.com/george-after...
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Poets and fiction writers! WEST BRANCH is looking for two Associate Editors, one in poery, one in fiction. We pay! Details below --
we're looking for two new associate editors! one in fiction and one in poetry! ideal for emerging writers and editors! we pay! apply today! #poetryeditor #literarymagazines
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Poets and fiction writers! WEST BRANCH is looking for two Associate Editors, one in poery, one in fiction. We pay! Details below --
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We are honored to announce that Unbound will publish Angie Estes’ 8th book, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, a volume of her most inventive and compelling poems. Coming March 2026.
“These are poems for the ages."
-Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief
More: loom.ly/Jv9FWAY
“These are poems for the ages."
-Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief
More: loom.ly/Jv9FWAY
January 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We are honored to announce that Unbound will publish Angie Estes’ 8th book, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, a volume of her most inventive and compelling poems. Coming March 2026.
“These are poems for the ages."
-Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief
More: loom.ly/Jv9FWAY
“These are poems for the ages."
-Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief
More: loom.ly/Jv9FWAY
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This is your sign to submit to Ninth Letter's print issue! Subs are open until the end of February, and we pay our contributors. No theme for print submissions. Link in bio to submit + more info. Your work is ready. We're ready. We can't wait to read your work. #litmag
January 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is your sign to submit to Ninth Letter's print issue! Subs are open until the end of February, and we pay our contributors. No theme for print submissions. Link in bio to submit + more info. Your work is ready. We're ready. We can't wait to read your work. #litmag
PREPOSITION reviews OSSIA (Changes, 2024) by @jiminseo.bsky.social
"Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]"
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"Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]"
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January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
PREPOSITION reviews OSSIA (Changes, 2024) by @jiminseo.bsky.social
"Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]"
www.prepositionmag.com/seo-ossia
"Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]"
www.prepositionmag.com/seo-ossia
PREPOSITION announces the 2024 Preppies, for best collection, best debut, and best design among books reviewed this year.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:55 PM
PREPOSITION announces the 2024 Preppies, for best collection, best debut, and best design among books reviewed this year.
www.prepositionmag.com/preppies-2024
www.prepositionmag.com/preppies-2024
PREPOSITION reviews HEREAFTER (@The Song Cave, 2024) by Alan Felsenthal.
"A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..."
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"A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..."
www.prepositionmag.com/felsenthal-h...
December 4, 2024 at 4:37 PM
PREPOSITION reviews HEREAFTER (@The Song Cave, 2024) by Alan Felsenthal.
"A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..."
www.prepositionmag.com/felsenthal-h...
"A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..."
www.prepositionmag.com/felsenthal-h...