American Poetry Review May/June 2026 Vol. 55, No. 3

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

Featuring:

Kim Addonizio: The Current Dilemma
Jeff Alessandrelli: "In the night with the fights"— On Juliana Spahr's Ars Poeticas
Rae Armantrout: Money Is a Ponzi Scheme
T Bambrick: My Therapist Dressed as a Minion
Jacqueline Berger: Francis Bacon
Jill Bialosky: Sonnet for the Unforgotten • May I Speak to a Representative Please • Lavender Garden
Tina Cane: Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
Grady Chambers: John 3
Mike Corrao: Towards a Topographical Writing (A review of Douglas Kearney's I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always)
Asa Drake: Pantoum for Lolo Ahas
Mónica Gomery: Ode to Mary, Wild Among Grasses • Landscape, Late Thirties
Benjamin Gucciardi: Lineage • Harbors • Rush Hour • Maricopa County • Swell Lines
Paul Guest: Empire • I Hope for Everything
Thomas Heise: Waves
Margaret Lee: Into the Hush: A Review (A review of Into the Hush by Arthur Sze)
Shara Lessley: Portrait as Dysmorphic: Hall of Mirrors— • Doubletake • What Did I Know, What Did I Know • It's Raining Cats and Gods • The Departed
Maya C. Popa: The Living • The World
Edward Sambrano III: Ourselves Dispersed: On Jorie Graham's Killing Spree
Gordon Mitchell Smith: off dating
Tracy K. Smith: For the Goddess
William Stobb: Poem with Face Blindness • In Case You Were Wondering if This Is Hell
Malik Thompson: Columbia Heights Station
Devon Walker-Figueroa: Physics of Wonder: A Conversation with Anna Journey
Matthew Yeager: The Path

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