APR Volume 54, Issue 1 (PDF)

After payment has been processed for your order of a digital copy (PDF) of American Poetry Review you will see a download link on your completed order page and also receive an email containing a download link. The links will expire after 24 hours.

January/February 2025

p. 4
Towards No Earthly Pole & Other Poems
Maw Shein Win

p. 6
All in Red & On Slices and Stains
Kayleb Rae Candrilli

p. 8
Trash Talk
Jordan Davis

p. 9
“Breath – and I”: Dickinson, Keats, & the Lifted Gaze
Philip Pardi

p. 16
Prayer & On the Whole
Sylvie Kandé
Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson

p. 16
French Movies
Alisha Dietzman

p. 17
Nightfall in Irhue & The Kingdom of Good Hope
Romeo Oriogun

p. 18
Starter Marriage & Other Poems
Caroline Bird

p. 19
How I Became So Unimportant & Other Poems
Michael Teig

p. 20
On Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
Kristie Frederick Daugherty and Stephanie Burt

p. 23
Three Poems from Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
Blas Falconer, Stephanie Burt and Topaz Winters

p. 24
Time Is Classical Music
Sofiya Alexandra

p. 27
Aesthetics and Ethics in Poetic Closure
Nomi Stone & Luke Hankins

p. 34
Reading Rushdie in Lisbon & Other Poems
Kazim Ali

p. 36
No Rest by Jason Koo: A Review
Rita Mookerjee

p. 38
In the Winter Ruins
Marianne Boruch

p. 37
Alike
Noah Baldino

p. 40
Shooting Down the Mistletoe
Reed Turchi

p. 41
Lilacs Blowing Across His Face
Samuel Amadon

p. 42
In the Designed Landscape (Garden of Planes)
G.C. Waldrep

p. 44
Heartbreaks
Ira Sadoff