Aaron Baker
The Strangeness of James Dickey
A review of the career of American poet James Dickey (2004).

Passing Facts
A review of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004).

Callbacks
A survey of second books by four young poets (2005).

Poetry's Embedded Soldier
A review of the soldier-poet Brian Turner's debut collection (2006).

Christopher Bakken
Herb Leibowitz & Parnassus
An interview with the editor of Parnassus magazine, Herb Leibowitz (2004).

In Fourteen Lines
A review of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004).

Plains Pastoral
A review of the career of American poet B. H. Fairchild (2006).

Carol Bere
Within the Jurisdiction of Form
A review of the selected prose of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (2005).

Rising from the Ashes
A review of the restored edition of Sylvia Plath's Ariel (2005).

Daniel Bosch
Non-Correspondence School
A review of the American fascination with Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet (2005).

Dodge Bulletin
A review of the Dodge Poetry Festival (2007).

Peter Campion
Logue Generals
A review of Christopher Logue's All Day Permanent Red (2003).

Alfred Corn
No Kidding
A review of first books by Ben Downing and David Yezzi (2004).

Anger Management
Mr. Corn reviews the career of American poet August Kleinzahler (2006).

Than Longen Folk...
Mr. Corn meditates on the connection between pilgrimages and poetry (2007).

Verse Hard-wired
A review of Derek Mahon's book, Harbour Lights (2007).

Bill Coyle
Carmine's CanLit
A review of the critical prose of Canadian poet-critic Carmine Starnino (2008).

Garrick Davis
Toward the New Futurism
A discussion of the most neglected art movement of the 20th century.

The Innocent Ear
Mr. Davis reflects on the popular disdain for versification (2005).

Remembering Villiers
Mr. Davis hails the great French poet Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (2005).

The Importance of The Cantos
A discussion of The Cantos, Ezra Pound's epic poem (2004).

The Golden Age of Poetry Criticism
A discussion of Modernism and the great age of criticism (2003).

Hart Crane: American Futurist
A discussion of how Futurism influenced the great American poet.

The Breakdown of Criticism Before the Printed Deluge
Mr. Davis discusses the problems of recent poetry criticism (1998).

Pearls in Heaps of Sawdust
Mr. Davis reviews Joshua Clover's Madonna anno domini (1998).

Misunderstanding Ezra Pound
Mr. Davis reviews four books of academic criticism on the poet.

Lessons of the Masters: T. S. Eliot
Mr. Davis discusses the relationship between Eliot's criticism and his poetry.

John Drexel
Is English Your Mother Tongue?
A review of books by Dick Davis, James Lasdun, and Mark Ford (2004).

The Poet in Winter
A review of Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon (2002).

F. D. Reeve's Tales
A review of two books by the American poet F. D. Reeve (2002).

Lost in Translation?
A review of American poet Dana Gioia's book on British poetry (2005).

Terra Incognita
A review of the New British Poetry anthology, edited by Don Paterson and Charles Simic (2006).

Language Uses Us For?
A review of the collected poems of W. S. Graham (2006).

Jocelyn Emerson
Among the Ruined Silver-darks
A review of Laurie Sheck's Black Series (2003).

John Erhardt
Confusion as an Operating Principle
A review of two books by Cort Day and Geoffrey Nutter (2002).

Katy Evans-Bush
Coping with Happiness
A review of the poetry of British poet Wendy Cope (2006).

There's No Place Like Home
A review of the poetry of Dorothy Molloy (2007).

Jack Foley
The Devil Divine
A review of Cole Porter's Selected Lyrics, edited for the Library of America (2006).

Soft & Hard Surrealism
A review of modern variations of Surrealism in the work of three poets (2006).

Taking Liberties
A review of the Library of America's edition of Louis Zukofsky (2007).

Andrew Frisardi
The Twilight Country
A review of the nature writing of John Haines (2008).

Black Suns on the Scales
A review of the collection The Blue Butterfly by Richard Burns (2008).

The Soul's House
A consideration of the career of American poet David Mason (2008).

Ethan Paquin
Mixed Economy
A review of Anne Carson's Economy of the Unlost.

From the Correct Chinese
A review of Crossing the Yellow River: 300 Poems from the Chinese by Sam Hamill.

"Relativistic Ejecta"
Mr. Paquin reviews Signs and Abominations by Bruce Beasley.

Apt Vernacular
A review of two recent books by Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise and Talking Dirty to the Gods (2001).

Your Influences Here
A review of Other Traditions, a book of essays, by John Ashbery (2001).

Evolution
A review of Pen Chants by Lissa Wolsak.

Devesh Patel
Vikram Seth: Poetry Of An Exile
A review of Vikram Seth's poetry (1998).

The Critic's Pleasure
A review of Martha Elizabeth's The Return of Pleasure (1998).

Marc Pietryzkowski
In This, Our Pinching Cave
A review of American poets Meg Kearney, Anthony Piccione, and Ray Gonzalez (2002).

War's Shrinking Lines A review of books by Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian (2003).

The Grand Zeugma
A review of the career of American poet H. L. Hix (2003).

For Unclassified Occasions
A review of American poet Maya Angelou's collection of greeting cards available at Hallmark (2003).

Anxious of Eternity
A review of the English poet John Clare's life and work (2004).

Poet and Priest of God and Wales
A review of the Collected Later Poems of R. S. Thomas (2005).

The Revolution Will Not Be Poeticized
A review of books by Beat poets Ferlinghetti and Snyder(2006).

Justin Quinn
James Merrill's Friends & Critics
A review of two critical works about James Merrill.

The Edge of Ireland
A review of seven books by Irish authors (2005).

Ammons' Cookie-Cutter
A review of the career of American poet A. R. Ammons (2003).

Calls for Clarification
A review of two critical books by Irish critic Denis Donoghue (2003).

For the Record
A review of the selected interviews of Allen Ginsberg (2003).

Studying Sylvia
A review of Tim Kendall's book of criticism on Sylvia Plath.

Multicultural Melt
Mr. Quinn wonders why all multicultural poetry sounds the same.

Difficult Transitions
A review of Marilyn Hacker's Squares and Courtyards (2001).

Glossing the Ordinary
A review of John Koethe's The Constructor and his book of essays, Poetry at One Remove.

Of Grids, Flux, and the Patternless Expanse
A review of three new anthologies of 20th century poetry, edited by Michael Schmidt, Peter Forbes, and Simon Armitage.

Assimilation
A review of Lucille Clifton's Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000.

The Deregulated Critic
A review of three works of criticism, including The Deregulated Muse by Sean O'Brien (2000).

In the Grey Zone
A review of the recent English translations of Czech poet Miroslav Holub (2000).

J. S. Renau
Scanning Evil
A review of The Fuehrer Bunker by W. D. Snodgrass (2002).

Rich in the Loss
A review of the Selected Translations of W. D. Snodgrass (2003).

Of Scoundrels and Saints
A review of the criticism of W. D. Snodgrass (2003).

The Poetry We Deserve
A report on a panel of British poets, including Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, and Paul Muldoon (2003).

Full Moon Fever
A review of Indian poet K. Chandrasekharan's first book.

Posturepedic Poetry
A review of Cairo Traffic by Lloyd Schwartz (2000).

"I Form the Light and Create Darkness"
A review of David Slavitt's translation of the book of Lamentations.

Risen Out of Necessity
A review of Jonathan Galassi's North Street (2001).

A Literary Montenegro
A review of Dana Gioia's lecture on "The Christian Writer Today" (2004).

A New Literary Government?
A review of a poetry panel with Adam Kirsch, Stephen Burt, and David Orr (2006).

Rules of Subversion
A review of David Caplan's study on poetic forms (2007).

Kathleen Rooney
Wave and Stone
A review of twelve recent long narrative poems (2005).

Sell Outs and Stanzas
A review of poetry books by rock stars and musicians (2006).

All My Pretty Selves
A review of a study devoted to post-Confessional poetry (2007).

Poetry at the Movies
A review of verse scribblers on the big silver screen (2007).

Jan Schreiber
Landscape with Banana Peels
A review of X. J. Kennedy's poetry (2004).

Wrestling with the Angel
A review of English translations of the German poet Rainier Rilke (2005).

Of Phonographs and Oily Birds
A review of the selected poems of Scottish poet Don Paterson (2004).

History for the Reformation
A review of Timothy Steele's history of prosody, Missing Measures (2004).

Sapphics for Students
A review of Timothy Steele's poetry textbook All the Fun's in How You Say A Thing (2004).

The Absolutist
A review of the poetry and criticism of Yvor Winters (2004).

Functions of Poetry
Mr. Schreiber talks about the uses, and meanings, of poetry in our day (2006).

Byrd or Cage?
A review of an anthology devoted to poetic forms (2007).

Farther South Than This
A review of Maxine Kumin's book Jack (2007).

Unguided and Apart
A review of the career of W. D. Snodgrass (2007).

5 Feet That Live Forever
A review of Robert Shaw's history of blank verse (2007).

In the Details
A review of W. S. DiPiero's New & Selected Poems (2008).

Stephen Schwartz
Under Empty Skies Falconers Weep
A survey of modern poetry in Ex-Yugoslavia and Albania (2004).

In Memoriam: Philip Lamantia
A tribute to the Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia (1927-2005).

On Kalmi Baruh Street
A personal memoir of the intersections between poetry and life (2004).

Ravi Shankar
Surveying the Landscape
A review of the first collections of three poets.

Tallying the Hemispheres
A review of books by Sean Singer and Daniel Bosch (2003).

Reformulating Forms
A close reading of two contemporary Indian poets (2004).

Output & Ingathering
A survey of first books by three young poets (2005).

Rabindra K. Swain
Speak, Ranjit
Mr. Swain reviews an anthology of 14 Indian poets (2002).

The Earth-Sense
A discussion of a Jayanta Mahapatra poem (2004).

The Essayist
A review of the collected essays of Indian poet A. K. Ramanujan (2003).

A Home Away From Home
A review of the last poetry and prose of the Indian poet A. K. Ramanujan.

Spinning the Web
A review of Bare Face, the latest collection by Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra (2001). 

The Celebrations of Life Aren't Over Yet
A review of Painting the House, the Indian poet Bibhu Padhi's latest offering (2000).

James Rother
Englishing Ovid
A review of translations of the Roman poet Ovid.

A Made-Up Metric
A review of the poetry of Alan Williamson(2006).

Wrought Fiery-Hot
A review of Western Art by Deborah Greger (2006).

No More Than Offhanded Grace A review of The New British Poetry anthology edited by Don Paterson and Charles Simic (2006).

Glint of Bullion Hefted
A review of Where Shall I Wander by John Ashbery (2006).

Problems of Prosody
A look at the difficulties of contemporary versification (2005).

Out of the Notebooks A selection of fragments from the notebooks of CPR editor James Rother (2005).

The Untempered Clavier of Carl Phillips A review of The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips (2005).

To Play Noughts & Crosses A review of the selected poems of Carl Dennis (2005).

Phantom Excitement A review of Amy Gerstler's Ghost Girl (2005).

Where Minutiae Outweigh Aeons
A review of Pattiann Rogers' latest book, Generations (2005).

Decorum As Its Own Reward
A review of Elizabeth Spires' Now the Green Blade Rises (2005).

The Interpres-sive Lowell
A review of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004).

Chalkboard Dyspepsias
A review of Music and Suicide by Jeff Clark (2004).

Lost in the Cave of the Mouth
A review of Talking with Poets, an anthology of interviews (2003).

Further News from the Rear
A review of John Ashbery's Chinese Whispers (2003).

Kitsch & the Talking Cure
A review of Diane Ackerman's Origami Bridges (2003).

"Boy Toys R Us"
A review of Daryl Hine's Puerilities, a translation of The Greek Anthology (2002).

A Feist on the Prowl
A review of the selected poems of Alan Dugan (2002).

Rilke Redux
A review of recent translations of Rainier Maria Rilke.

Yada, Yada, Yada for the Ages
Mr. Rother considers the career of John Ashbery.

Nodal and Bicameral
A review of Nicholas Christopher's The Creation of the Night Sky (2001).

Merrill the Prodigal
Mr. Rother looks back on the career of James Merrill (2001).

The Best Of The Best
A review of The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by Rita Dove (2000).

A Minoring of Major and Some Top Gunn
A review of Clarence Major's Configurations: New & Selected Poems 1958-1998 and Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid (2000).

Ricks Redusts A Classic
A review of the new edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks (2000).

The Hawk In The Rain Revisited
A review of Ted Hughes' first book of poems, published in 1957 (1999).

A Star to Pilot By
A review of The Pilot Star Elegies by Sherod Santos (1999).

Singing the Body Electric
A discussion of the future of poetry in a computer age (1998).

Birthday Letters
A review of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters (1998).

On Contemporary American Poetry
A review of contemporary poetry since the 1960's (1998).

D. H. Tracy
The Fiddle & the Violin
Mr. Tracy considers the popularity of poetry in the modern world (2003).

Qeequeg & the Rapmaster
A review of English poet Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! (2003).

Chance Enchantments
A review of American poet Diane Thiel's Echolocations (2003).

Compulsive Imaginative Acquisitiveness
A review of Wild Kingdom by Vijay Seshadri (2003).

Paradise Misplaced
A review of Sarah Manguso's The Captain Lands in Paradise (2003).

Programmatic Americanism
Mr. Tracy discusses Hart Crane and the American epic poem (2003).

Serendipitous Verse
A review of English poet Michael Ondaatje's Handwriting (2003).

Man of Constant Sorrow
A review of Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs (2003).

Choose A or B
A review of Randall Jarrell's letters and Stephen's Burt book on the poet (2003).

The Mystic Rationalist
A review of American poet William Logan's sixth book, Macbeth in Venice (2004).

A Gull's Game
A review of Louise Bogan's poetry and criticism (2004).

Wakka Wakka
A review of Vijay Seshadri's book The Long Meadow (2007).

Aspects of Robinson
A review of the career of American poet E. A. Robinson (2007).

David Wheatley
Eikon Basilike
David Wheatley admires the difficulties of Peter Didsbury.

Courage Means Running?
Mr. Wheatley  considers the poem "Aubade" by Philip Larkin (2003).

Billycan Campfire Tinniness
A review of Irish poet Tom Paulin's collection The Wind Dog (2003).

"None of Us Likes It"
A review of six poet-critics of the United Kingdom (2002).

How to Die
A review of Peter Reading's Ob.

A Dublin Ghost
Mr. Wheatley discusses the obscure Irish poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849).

Orpheus Risen
A review of Seamus Heaney's book District and Circle (2006).

Sonny Williams
Beyond the Confessional
A review of Jenny Factor's Unraveling at the Name (2002).

The Age of Anthologies
A review of four poetry anthologies (2004).

If the Laurel Fits
A review of American poet laureate Ted Kooser's book, Delights & Shadows (2005).

Tell Me A Story of Deep Delight
A review of book-length narrative poems, including Kevin Young and Bill Tremblay (2006).

Twanging of the Harp
A review of American poet Mary Oliver's book Thirst (2007).

Twinkle Twinkle Mighty Tome
A review of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (2007).

This Doesn't Suck
A review of Stephen Dobyn's book Mystery, So Long (2007).

Merryn Williams
Must Poetry Be Difficult?
A review of new books by Gerrie Fellows and Alice Fulton (2001).

Letter From Britain
A discussion of the 2000 Forward Prize, and the death of the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas (2000).

Three Female Poets
A review of new books by Linda Gregg, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and Anita Skeen (2000).

James Matthew Wilson
To Cloak the Emptiness
A review of the poetry of the philosopher George Santayana (2006).

Four Ways
A general discussion of the relation between poetry and religion (2006).

Sentimental Education
A review of Joseph Parisi's anthology 100 Essential Modern Poems (2007).

Steps amid a Ruined Colonnade
A study of the role of poetry in the Academy (2007).