Recent American Poetry

Jeff Thomson's B irdwatching in Wartime follows a journey through the rain forest of South America. The poems contain imagery perta...

Susan Howe appears to be the master of bridging the gap between literature and visual art. Howe’s, “The Midnight” displays this bridge ...

Adrian Matejka’s mixology could very easily be read with a solid beat pulsing in the background keeping time. Hi...

“I speak of the intimate relationship between salmons and humans, / between humans and icebergs, between icebergs and salmons, and / how thi...

Adrian Matejka’s book Mixology has a rhythm to it that is the most unique out of all the readings we’ve done so far this semester. I can f...

Adrian Matejka’s Mixology is a treatise on mixtures. His poems read like slam poetry, but are written in more traditional form, with unif...

Mixology is a text unlike others that we have encountered thus far, the poetry contained inside is dense, intricate, elo...