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Welcome to the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world. Inside, you will find hundreds of essays, interviews, and links that cover the contemporary scene of English-language poetry. Whether you're a student researching a term paper, or a reader interested in discovering new poets, there is no better place to begin than here. In addition, your subscription helps to support over 25 regular contributors from the United States, Canada, Ireland, England, India, and Australia. 

Inside the CPR Archive, you will find from the United States:


Garrick Davis, the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, with reviews of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Hart Crane, as well as interviews with Dana Gioia, William Logan, and Adam Kirsch. 

Brian Henry, the editor of the international poetry magazine Verse, with reviews of the New York School of Poets, Louise Glück, Spencer Short, and more.

Ernest Hilbert, the founding editor of the Oxford Quarterly, with reviews of the Beat Poets, Geoffrey Hill, Billy Collins, Stephen Spender, James Merrill, and more.   

Preston Merchant, with reviews of C. K. Williams, Agha Shahid Ali, Frederick Seidel, Richard Howard, and more. 

Ethan Paquin, editor of the American poetry magazine Slope, with reviews of John Ashbery, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sam Hamill, Bruce Beasley, Anne Carson, and more.

J. S. Renau, with reviews of W. D. Snodgrass, David Slavitt, Lloyd Schwartz, and more.

James Rother, contributing editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, with reviews of John Ashbery, James Merrill, W. H. Auden, Thom Gunn, Randall Jarrell, Ted Hughes, Alan Dugan, Christopher Ricks, and more.  

Other American contributors include: John Drexel, Omaar Hena, Sunil Iyengar, Paul Lake, Randall Mann, Marc Pietrzykowski, Ravi Shankar, D. H. Tracy and Sonny Williams. 

From Ireland:

Justin Quinn and David Wheatley, the editors of Metre, with reviews of Peter Reading, James Clarence Mangan, Tom Paulin, Miroslav Holub, Denis Donoghue, Marilyn Hacker, Lucille Clifton, Sean O'Brien, Peter Didsbury, Allen Ginsberg, and more.    

From India:

Rabindra K. Swain, with reviews of A. K. Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra,  Bibhu Padhi, and more.


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