Excerpts

My Mother Once Gave Up Her Savior: Featured Poetry by Tina Chang

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A lovely, ambitious poem about the mysteries of belief that takes place in the murky and mystical place of faith.
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Essays

In Praise of Poems That End with Questions

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To end a poem with a question is to offer an invitation. Here, the poet says, now it’s your turn. We sit up, re-read, and become a part of the poem.
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Excerpts

This Is the Fruit I’ll Never Die For: Featured Poetry by Paisley Rekdal

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By turns sensual and sweet, Rekdal’s narrator captures the many facets of hunger.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: May 2019

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Get a taste of six new collections, including the latest from Brooklyn's poet laureate, Tina Chang.
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Excerpts

I Wait for the Sudden Sunset: Featured Poetry by Tyler Mills

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Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a fascinating verse consideration of the atomic age.
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The Millions Interview

Drifting Toward Wonder: The Millions Interviews Lia Purpura

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The associative impulse confirms the deep systems holding us together even if we’re bent on ignoring or destroying those tethers.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: April 2019

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Six new collections we can't get enough of this month.
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Excerpts

I Do Not Wish to Sing: Featured Poetry by Jericho Brown

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Brown's storytelling talent reverberates throughout his latest book, The Tradition.
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Excerpts

I Want to Remember This: Featured Poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy

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It's one of the finest poems you'll read on the sacred strain of parenting, on the force of love.
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The Millions Interview

Noise Requires Poetry: The Millions Interviews Shane McCrae

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I believe God is; I have no doubts about the existence of God. And I think it’s God’s very being that draws me toward God.
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Excerpts

There’s No One to Witness: Featured Poetry by Edgar Kunz

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The poems in this debut are laconic, while remaining fleshy and full.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: March 2019

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For several reasons, there is only one thing I demand from my own lines, or from any poetry I love—I want to read it and to have a sense of having lived.
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Excerpts

They Are Not Calling to You: Featured Poetry by Paige Ackerson-Kiely

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A great second-person poem is narrated both toward us and past us, its words skimming off our shoulders but leaving marks.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: February 2019

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Here are six notable books of poetry publishing in February.
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Excerpts

You Can’t Stop Mourning: Featured Poetry by Morgan Parker

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Parker's truncated lines often drift into our chests: we’ve been spoken to, and we want to hear more.
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On Poetry

For a Place I Hate, I Invoke You Often: Featured Poetry by Hala Alyan

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An appropriate lament for a state that she once called home. “For a place I hate, I invoke you often”: Alyan captures the terrible millstone of memory.
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Features

We Learn to Live: Featured Poetry by Andrés Cerpa

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Cerpa’s poems are distilled charges of pure will. A necessarily bleak book illuminated by authentic and audacious feeling.
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Book Previews

Must-Read Poetry: January 2019

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Online we are dead, alive, temporary, and permanent. Mao’s serene descriptions are masterfully unsettling. Each poem bears careful reading.
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