VerseCurious: Recent Episodes
Benjamin Landry
Brief reviews of new poetry collections for those who need--or don't yet know they need--poetry. Hosted by Benjamin Landry.
I review Martheaus Perkins's The Grace of Black Mothers, from Trio House Press (July 1, 2025).
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I review Jennifer Hasegawa's Naomie Anomie, from Omnidawn Publishing (April 14, 2025).
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I review Andrea Ballou's Other Times, Midnight, from Persea Books (April 1, 2025).
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I review Rachel Trousdale's Five-Paragraph Essay on the Mind-Body Problem, from Wesleyan University Press (March 25, 2025).
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I review Annie Wenstrup's The Museum of Unnatural Histories, from Wesleyan University Press (March 19, 2025).
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I review Latif Askia Ba's The Choreic Period, from Milkweed Editions (January 21, 2025).
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I review Brittany Rogers's Good Dress, from Tin House Books (October 15, 2024).
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I review torrin a. greathouse's Deed, from Wesleyan University Press (August 20, 2024).
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Jessica Cuello and I discuss a touchstone, Deborah Tall's A Family of Strangers, from Sarabande Books (2006).
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I review Elizabeth Clark Wessel's None of It Belongs to Me, from Game Over Books (June 15, 2024).
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I review Stephanie Choi's The Lengest Neoi, from the University of Iowa Press (May 6, 2024).
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I review Jennifer Richter's Dear Future, from The Word Works (May 1, 2024).
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I review Tyree Daye's A Little Bump in the Earth, from Copper Canyon Press (Apri 2, 2024).
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I review Sheila Carter-Jones's Every Hard Sweetness, from BOA Editions (April 9, 2024).
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I review Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell, from Copper Canyon Press (April 23, 2024).
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I review Fahima Ife's Septet for the Luminous Ones, from Wesleyan University Press (February 6, 2024).
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I review Cynthia Marie Hoffman's Exploding Head, from Persea Books (February 6, 2024).
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I review JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies, from Milkweed Editions (October 24, 2023).
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I review Danielle Cadena Deulen's Desire Museum, fromBOA Editions (October 10, 2023).
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I review Erin Marie Lynch's Removal Acts, from Graywolf Press (Oct. 3, 2023).
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I review India Lena González's Fox Woman Get Out!, from BOA Editions (September 12, 2023).
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I review Leslie Sainz's Have You Been Long Enough at Table, from Tin House Books (September 26, 2023).
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I review Courtney Bush's I Love Information, from Milkweed Editions (August 1, 2023).
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I review Colin Channer's CONSOLE, from FSG (July 18, 2023).
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I review Phuong T. Vuong's A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023).
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I review Maureen N. McLane's What You Want, from FSG (May 2, 2023).
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I review Brenda Cardenas's Trace, from Red Hen Press (April 18, 2023).
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I review Liza Katz Duncan's GIVEN, from Autumn House Press (April 20, 2023).
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I review Janine Joseph's Decade of the Brain, from Alice James Books (January 17, 2023).
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I review Maggie Millner's COUPLETS, from FSG (February 7, 2023).
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I review Shelley Puhak's Harbinger, from Ecco Books (October, 2022).
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I review Sandra Simonds's Triptychs, from Wave Books (November, 2022).
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I review Paul Hlava Ceballos's BANANA, from the University of Pittsburgh Press (September 27, 2022).
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I review Jenny Xie's The Rupture Tense, from Graywolf Press (September 6, 2022).
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I review No'u Revilla's Ask the Brindled, from Milkweed Editions (August 9, 2022).
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I review Moheb Soliman's HOMES, from Coffee House Press (June 8, 2021).
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