Poetry Magazine February 2019 by Don Share

Poetry Magazine February 2019 Reviews

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  Mateo

  favorites:
  
  Kathy Fagan, "The Rule of Three"
  Rosebud Ben-Oni, "Poet Wrestling With Her Empire of Dirt"
  Timothy Donnelly, "Hymn to Edmond Albias"
  Richard Kenney, "The Drake Equation"
  Oliver Baez Bendorf, "Bone Dust"
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  Stewart Lindstrom

  Caroline Bird's poem Temporary Vows is beautiful. Richard Kenney's poem The Drake Equation is brilliantly goofy and weird. Oliver Baez Bendorf's work also stands out. The way he makes use of white space is intriguing.
  February was a good issue.
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  Karena Bakas

  Decided to finally catch up on my subscription. Poetry is always great. I love the extra features you get access to with the app when you have a digital subscription.
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  Brian

  The Monica Youn and the Tom Pickard are excellent, but I could take or leave everything else.
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  Erick Mertz

  Excellent issue. One of my favorite recent issues of Poetry. Too many great poems and poets to list them all, of note though, Caroline Bird’s two poems about grief and divorce are outstanding.
  
  
  www.erickmertzauthor.com
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  Erika Dreifus

  Not to armchair self-analyze, but I note that once again, I’ve found the very first poem in the issue—on the inside cover—to be an arresting one, and the one that lingers with me longest after turning the final page. This month, it’s a poem by Mark Halperin (1940-2018) that originally appeared in the magazine in 1979. Interestingly—as is the case with similar poems—the title is omitted in the “in memory” version. So it wasn’t until I returned to the poet’s birth and death year that I realized that the presidential death it describes was FDR’s, not JFK’s. Read what was first titled “April 1945” for yourself:
  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet....
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  Lisa

  Favorites: Youn, Fagan, Holiday, Riley, Clarkson, Donnelly, Bird