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Alex Crowley is a Queens-based writer and organizer. He also plays guitar and yells in the band Warmth.

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PW Poetry Annex November 2018

This will probably be the last “online annex” of post-pub reviews that I do, since there’s been a restructuring that’ll largely prevent me from covering titles that don’t hit me 4+ months in advance. It’s a mondo bummer because so many rad small presses don’t have the capacity to work that far in advance. But you know, as some guy said a while back, capital in all its forms has the tendency to concentrate upwards.

Also, here are the Poetry selections for the 2018 Best Books Issue!

G. Emmalea Russo (Futurepoem)

Crosslight for Youngbird. Asiya Wadud (Nightboat)

Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House. Nina Puro (New Issues)

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods. Tishani Doshi (Copper Canyon)

Scorpio. Katy Bohinc (Miami)

The Desert. Brandon Shimoda (Song Cave)

Ghost, Like a Place. Iain Haley Pollock (Alice James)

Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy. Paul Vermeersch (ECW)

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PW Poetry Reviews October 2018

Check out PW’s Holiday Gift Guide poetry list and grab these for you or your loved ones or also possibly your nemeses.

Monument: Poems New and Selected. Natasha Trethewey (HMH)

Autobiography of Death. Kim Hyesoon, trans. by Don Mee Choi (New Directions)

The Gilded Auction Block. Shane McCrae (FSG)

Half-Hazard. Kristen Tracy (Graywolf)

In Country. Hugh Martin (BOA)

Instruments of the True Measure. Laura Da’ (Arizona)

Luxury, Blue Lace. S. Brook Corfman (Autumn House)

Peaches Goes It Alone. Frederick Seidel (FSG)

Positions of the Sun. Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna)

Wilder. Claire Wahmanholm (Milkweed)

Wobble. Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)

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PW Poetry Annex October 2018

who’s up for some trenchant commentary on society?

Museum of the Americas. J. Michael Martinez (Penguin)

Black Queer Hoe. Britteney Black Rose Kapri (Haymarket)

Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf. Kim Kyung Ju, trans. by Jake Levine (Plays Inverse)

Citizen Illegal. José Olivarez (Haymarket)

Cruel Fiction. Wendy Trevino (Commune)

everyone rides the bus in a city of losers. Jason Freure (ECW)

I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood. Tiana Clark (Pittsburgh) 

When Rap Spoke Straight to God. Erica Dawson (Tin House) 

Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions. Jane Miller (Copper Canyon)

Be With. Forrest Gander (New Directions)

Spill. Bruce Smith (Chicago)

Born Again. Ivy Johnson (The Operating System)

Defense of the Idol. Omar Cáceres, trans. by Mónica de la Torre (Ugly Duckling)

In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame. Ted Rees (Timeless, Infinite Light)

Ceremonial. Carly Joy Miller (Orison)

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PW Poetry Reviews September 2018

Real Life: An Installation. Julie Carr (Omnidawn)

Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems. Dominique Christina (Beacon)

The Arrangements. Kate Colby (Four Way)

Barnburner. Erin Hoover (Elixir)

Dissolve. Sherwin Bitsui (Copper Canyon)

Dregs. Cynthia Cruz (Four Way)

Dresses from the Old Country. Laura Read (BOA)

Fate News. Norma Cole (Omnidawn)

Hold. Bob Hicok (Copper Canyon)

The Mirrormaker. Brian Laidlaw (Milkweed)

Something for Everybody. Anselm Berrigan (Wave)

XoeteoX: The Infinite Word Object. Edwin Torres (Wave)

You Darling Thing. Monica Ferrell (Four Way)

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PW Poetry Annex September 2018

The nationwide prison strike is in its third week, you can still take action to support the striking incarcerated workers.

Atmospheric Embroidery. Meena Alexander (Triquarterly)

The Body Ghost. Joseph Lease (Coffee House)

Dragging Anchor. Keri Marinda Smith (Hanging Loose)

Songs & Ballads. Lindsay Turner (Prelude)

Lemur. Andra Rotaru, trans. by Florin Bican (Action)

Letters So That Happiness. Arnaldo Calveyra, trans. by Elizabeth Zuba (Ugly Duckling)

Marianna’s Beauty Salon. Bushra Rehman (Sibling Rivalry)

Nioque of the Early-Spring. Francis Ponge, trans. by Jonathan Larson (Song Cave)

Palominos Near Tuba City: New & Selected Poems. Denise Sweet (Holy Cow!)

Screwball. Anne Kawala, trans. by Kit Schluter (Canarium)

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PW Poetry Reviews August 2018

Won Lee, The Meditators (2007), Johnson, VT

So Far So Good: Poems 2014–2018. Ursula K. Le Guin (Copper Canyon)

A Cruelty Special to Our Species. Emily Jungmin Yoon (Ecco)

Isako Isako. Mia Ayumi Malhotra (Alice James)

American Radiance. Luisa Muradyan (Nebraska)

Baby, I don’t care. Chelsey Minnis (Wave)

Bury It. Sam Sax (Wesleyan)

Evolution. Eileen Myles (Grove)

The Final Voicemails. Max Ritvo (Milkweed)

Holy Moly Carry Me. Erika Meitner (BOA)

Justice Piece // Transmission. Lauren Levin (Timeless, Infinite Light)

Spectra. Ashley Toliver (Coffee House)

A Year from Today. Stacy Szymaszek (Nightboat)

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PW Poetry Annex August 2018

Another beautiful glitch found while exploring Google maps 3d mode

Feast Gently. G.C. Waldrep (Tupelo)

Flung Throne. Cody-Rose Clevidence (Ahsahta)

National Park. Emily Sieu Liebowitz (Gramma)

The Red Song. Melisa Machado, trans. by Seth Michelson (Action)

Empty Clip. Emilia Phillips (Akron)

Foreign Native. Lisa Samuels (Black Radish)

GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime. Chaun Webster (Noemi)

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PW Poetry Reviews July 2018

Small batch for the summer lull; Please don’t eat straight out of the dump truck.

Human Hours. Catherine Barnett (Graywolf)

Perennial. Kelly Forsythe (Coffee House)

feeld. Jos Charles (Milkweed)

If You Have To Go. Katie Ford (Graywolf)

Prey. Jeanann Verlee (Black Lawrence)

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PW Poetry Annex July 2018

Just east of the Winter Flounder Spawning Closure Area

The Fat Sonnets. Samantha Zighelboim (Argos)

What Nature. Ed. by Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, and Stefania Heim (Boston Review)

Body & Glass. Rodney Koeneke (Wave)

The Four Seasons. Brandon Brown (Wonder)

Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? Noah Eli Gordon (Solid Objects)

The Soft Life. Bridget Talone (Wonder)

Strange Children. Dan Brady (Publishing Genius)

We, the Almighty Fires. Anna Rose Welch (Alice James)

Whatever Stasis. Chris Tonelli (Barrelhouse)

Claude Before Time and Space. Claudia Emerson (LSU)

Trailer Trash. July Westhale (Kore)

Trouble Songs. Jeff T. Johnson (Punctum)

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PW Poetry Reviews June 2018

This post is a couple weeks late, but the reviews? They’re fresh as ever.

The Carrying. Ada Limón (Milkweed)

Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color. Ed. by Christopher Soto (Nightboat)

New Poets of Native Nations. Ed. by Heid E. Erdrich (Graywolf)

Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing. Ed. by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin (Kore)

Call Me When You Want to Talk About the Tombstones. Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Persea)

Dear Angel of Death. Simone White (Ugly Duckling)

Don’t Let Them See Me Like This. Jasmine Gibson (Nightboat)

The Galloping Hour: French Poems. Alejandra Pizarnik, ed. by Patricio Ferrari, trans. by Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander (New Directions)

Lo terciario/The Tertiary. Raquel Salas Rivera (Timeless, Infinite Light)

Rough Ground. Alix Anne Shaw (Etruscan)

Smudgy and Lossy. John Myers (Song Cave)

This Window Makes Me Feel. Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling)

Trickster Feminism. Anne Waldman (Penguin)

Bonus material: 

Every Day is Magic – profile of Ada Limón

PW’s Fall Poetry Announcements

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PW Poetry Annex June 2018

Boiling heat, summer stench / 'Neath the black the sky looks dead

Age of Glass. Anna Maria Hong (Cleveland State U. Poetry Center)

Experience in Groups. Geoffrey G. O’Brien (Wave)

Ghost Of. Diana Khoi Nguyen (Omnidawn)

Moss & Silver. Jure Detela, trans. by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik. (Ugly Duckling)

Terrible Blooms. Melissa Stein (Copper Canyon)

Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera. Ed Pavlic (Saturnalia)

The Real Horse. Farid Matuk (Arizona)

Soap for the Dogs. Stacey Tran (Gramma)

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PW Poetry Reviews May 2018

I come from the water / I crawled upon the shore / I left my brothers there / I got what I came for

Sheep Machine. Vi Khi Nao (Black Sun Lit)

The Dream of Reason. Jenny George (Copper Canyon)

The Hatch. Joe Fletcher (Brooklyn Arts)

The Inside Room. Lisa Andrews (Indolent)

Of Marriage. Nicole Cooley (Alice James)

Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God. Tony Hoagland (Graywolf)

The Shutters. Ahmed Bouanani, trans. by Emma Ramadan (New Directions)

Suelo Tide Cement. Christina Vega-Westhoff (Nightboat)

Vigilance Is No Orchard. Hazel White (Nightboat)

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PW Poetry Annex May 2018

Sell the kids for food / Weather changes moods

Band Names & Other Poems. Peter Davis (Bloof)

Blue Rose. Carol Muske-Dukes (Penguin)

Brazen Creature. Anne Barngrover (Akron)

High Ground Coward. Alicia Mountain (Iowa)

Jazzercise is a Language. Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (The Operating System)

Negative Space. Luljeta Lleshanaku, trans. by Ani Gjika (New Directions)

Oil Spell. Claire Marie Stancek (Omnidawn)

Soft Volcano. Libby Burton (Saturnalia)

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PW Poetry Reviews April 2018

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Terrance Hayes (Penguin)

If They Come for Us. Fatimah Asghar (One World)

Dark Horse. Kristina Marie Darling (C&R)

The English Boat. Donald Revell (Alice James)

Excess—The Factory. Leslie Kaplan, trans. by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap (Commune)

Indecency. Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House)

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems. Jennifer S. Cheng (Tarpaulin Sky)

Nightingalelessness. Graham Foust (Flood)

R E D. Chase Berggrun (Birds LLC)

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl. Diane Seuss (Graywolf)

Telephone. Ariana Reines (Wonder)

That Which Comes After. Alexis Pope (Big Lucks)

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PW Poetry Reviews March 2018

It’s #WorldPoetryDay so here’s a closeup of some drapes at Graceland.

Brown. Kevin Young (Knopf)

Wade in the Water. Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf)

Junk. Tommy Pico (Tin House)

Cenzontle. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (BOA)

Distant Center. Ha Jin (Copper Canyon)

DiVida. Monica A. Hand (Alice James)

Eye Level. Jenny Xie (Graywolf)

The Fix. Lisa Wells (Iowa)

Light Wind Light Light. Bin Ramke (Omnidawn)

Orlando. Sandra Simonds (Wave)

Some Animal. Ely Shipley (Nightboat)

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PW Poetry Annex March 2018

Happy International Women’s Day (March 8) and solidarity with the teachers in WV and OK.

Camp Marmalade. Wayne Koestenbaum (Nightboat)

For the Love of Endings. Ben Purkert (Four Way)

M Archive: After the End of the World. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke)

Sharing Plastic. Blake Nemec (The Operating System)

Stray. Bernard Farai Matambo (Nebraska)

I Will Not Kick My Friends. Kathleen Winter (Elixir)

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PW Poetry Reviews February 2018

Inspirational: This looks like a UFO, but it’s not!

Cruel Futures. Carmen Giménez Smith (City Lights)

Oceanic. Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Copper Canyon)

Subterranean. Richard Greenfield (Omnidawn)

We Play a Game. Duy Doan (Yale)

The Cold and the Rust. Emily Van Kley (Persea)

Dying in the Scarecrow’s Arms. Mitchell L.H. Douglas (Persea)

House of McQueen. Valerie Wallace (Four Way)

How He Loved Them. Kevin Prufer (Four Way)

Inquisition. Kazim Ali (Wesleyan)

Yeah No. Jane Gregory (The Song Cave)