The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• Poetry is Not a Luxury

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  By Pamela Sneed

• four poems

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  By Josiah McElheny

• two poems

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  By YA

• How Audre Lorde Helped Me See the Light

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  By Samuel Formo

• Thoracic Wall

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  By Emilio Rojas

• The White Women Problem

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  By Justine Kurland

• two poems

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  By Joseph Liatela

• Balance

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  By JP Howard

• The Slow Burn: On Poetry in our Now

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  By Tavia Nyong’o

• Recess

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  By Keisha Scarville

• two poems

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  By Karen Finley

• Music for a small group of people

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  By Kyle Dacuyan

• two poems

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  By Gregg Bordowitz

• CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR with Alexis Pauline Gumbs