Literature

Poetry

Flow Chart of Paris

The poet Lisa Robertson’s second novel achieves flights of erudition in its loving, archival meanderings around the city of Paris.

October 8, 2026 issue

Anahid Nersessian

Refusing to Look Away

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

August 20, 2026 issue

Mark Ford

The Late Bohemian

Rosemary Tonks emulated French Symbolist poets before converting to Christianity and renouncing all her own works.

July 23, 2026 issue

David Wheatley

Against Nostalgia

In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.

May 28, 2026 issue

Nick Laird

‘The Music of What Happens’

Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.

May 14, 2026 issue

Kathryn Hughes

Heaven’s Elegist

Alfred Tennyson’s poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.

April 23, 2026 issue

Ange Mlinko

Mother Daughter Sister Wife

A new anthology of female Hungarian poets engages with the nation’s often tragic history through various forms of reticence, misdirection, and playfulness.

April 9, 2026 issue

Sophie Pinkham

The Poet’s Double

In the early years of the Soviet Union, Konstantin Vaginov wrote fiction and poetry characterized by a sense of doubleness, ambiguity, and perverse humor.

March 12, 2026 issue

New Poems

Shane McCrae

March 13, 2020

November 5, 2026 issue

Claire DeVoogd

Work Poem

November 5, 2026 issue

David Plante

Poem

November 5, 2026 issue

Having a Poem with You

Langdon Hammer

Alert to Reality

The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.

November 20, 2025 issue

Lucy Sante

John Ashbery (1927–2017)

He was lionized, imitated, studied, analyzed, enshrined, revered.

October 12, 2017 issue

Dan Chiasson

Crossing the Invisible Line

The astonishing work of poet Eileen Myles set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match.

March 24, 2016 issue

Geoffrey O’Brien

The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street

“One has to go back to fairly remote periods—ancient Rome, eighteenth-century London—to find poetry as meticulous in its gossip and as minute in its urban observation as Frank O’Hara’s.”

December 2, 1993 issue

Jorie Graham

Poems by Jorie Graham

A selection of Jorie Graham’s contributions to The New York Review. Read all of her poetry here.