American Poetry Review July/Aug 2026 Vol. 55, No. 4

• July/August 2026 issue
• Newspaper style format
• Contemporary poetry and literary prose
• In continuous publication since 1972!

Featuring:

Kazim Ali: Green Boots • Two White Shirts • Dickinson's Gender: Two Truths and a Lie • E F L • Queer History
Darius Atefat-Peckham: Earth-Bound Ghazals
Nicky Beer: Good Poem • Hibiscus Headwound
Holly Coleman: The Erotics of Grammar
Dante Di Stefano: Magnified, Emboldened, & Wakeful: A Review of Tim Seibles's With No Hat
Matthew Dickman: The Poets at My Mother's Deathbed
David Ehmcke: Writing the Invisible: Ariana Reines's Occult Poetics
Boston Gordon: After the Totality
Brittany Micka-Foos: Extinction Begins at Home: A Review of Anne Marie Macari's Amerigun
Wayne Miller: 14 Executive Orders • At Fifty
Hieu Minh Nguyen: Three poems from Staying Still: From Paradise • Notes on Beauty • The Dress
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara: Notes on Culture • On the Phone with Father
Catherine Pierce: I Invite Certain Men to the Mountains • Perigee
C. Russell Price: Ghost Cowboy Starts a Podcast • A Horse Opera • I Tell Bisquick How I Really Feel
Kevin Prufer: The Cocktail Party • Memory Machine • Hitchhiker
Ethel Rackin: Trials
Cole Swensen: Out on a Limb • Only • An Umbrella • Ferry • An Egg
Reed Turchi: Swannanoa: Swirl & Vortex
Beth Ward: The Animal We Are
Eleanor Wilner: Betsy Ross Sewing

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