American Poetry Review Sept/Oct 2026 Vol. 55, No. 5

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

Featuring:

José A. Alcántara: Oil & Grass: A Review of Christopher Kondrich's Tread Upon https://bookshop.org/p/books/tread-upon-christopher-kondrich/e5769fc56bf96892?ean=9781556597244&bkshp-astro=t
Ellen Bass: Persimmons • At first when I left my husband • The Lesson • She was a young woman
Erin Belieu: The Key to All Mythologies
Erin Belieu: An Eagerness to Be in the World (Erin Belieu interviewed by Carl Phillips)
Gabrielle Calvocoressi: Screen Door (Gabrielle Calvocoressi interviewed by Kali Coleman)
Emily Carr: Kiss of the Strawberry Moon: Taking Life Advice on the Art of Mortality from Poems Shome Dasgupta: Fading Away into the Lost Lands of Memories Reborn (A review of Berceuse Parish by Burnside Soliel) https://bookshop.org/p/books/berceuse-parish-poems-volume-13-burnside-soleil/2a70688e77958cf2?ean=9781680034547&bkshp-astro=t
Sarah Gambito: ¡Sigue!
Mark Irwin: — And all the creatures therein
JoEllen Kwiatek: Charon Was Tired
Dorothea Lasky: Food for Babies • It • Pain • I Played God • Don't Leave Dottie
Rodrick Minor: Pythagoras Theory • Ode to the Last Piece of Bread
Dogma: Feral Illusions • Cento: On Frying Chicken • Ars Cibaria et Poetica Tiana Nobile: This Disordered Life
Matthew Olzmann: The Wheel • The Quotable Genghis Khan • Tom Cruise • And Now, Let Us Pray
Jana Prikryl: Fool on Edge • The Knots • On Seeing the French Alps from a Distance Spencer Reece: Bartimaeus • Bright Star • The Priesthood • Plein Air • Passacaglia Martin Rock: Inside the Body • What the Algorithm Shows Us • Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
Diane Seuss: I want to want to want to • Having gained entrance into the crèche • The hope will have to be taken up, • Althea progressed, from amoeba • Having read a "rose is a rose
Claire Wahmanholm: Overwinter
Peter Waldor: Jeremiah • Fugazi, the Word, the Band, and the Club • Great Dane

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