Poems, essays, and art by Chris Abani, Kathleen Rooney, Ruben Quesada,  Jim Daniels, Eleanor Stanford, Lisa Bickmore, Joshua McKinney, Brandon Krieg, and more.

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Matthew Morris

Poems, essays, and art by Kazim Ali, Sandra Simonds, Donald Revell, Rebecca Lehmann, Jenny Browne, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Charles O. Hartman, Brenda Beardsley, and more.

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Poems, essays, and art by Wayne Koestenbaum, Sarah J. Sloat, Wendy Walters, G.C. Waldrep, Mark Wunderlich, Angie Estes, Dobby Gibson, Myronn Hardy, and more.

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Katherine Indermaur

Poems, essays, and art by Dan Beachy-Quick, Kristi Maxwell, Kylan Rice, Aditi Mehrotra, Elizabeth Robinson, Ivars Balkits, Sara Moore Wagner, Michael Flatt, and more.

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Poems, essays, and art by Martha Collins, Elizabeth A. I. Powell, Dong Li, Ray Gonzalez, Kathryn Nuernberger, and more.

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Poems, essays, and art by Peter Covino, Christine Hume, Jessica Q. Stark, Jehanne Dubrow, Maya Jewell Zeller, Jane Zwart, Taylor Byas, Rachel Abramowitz, and more.

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Jessica Lind Peterson

Our 50th Anniversary Issue, ON ANXIETY, is guest edited by Joe Wenderoth. Featuring poems, essays, and art by Mary Ruefle, Graham Foust, Matthew Vollmer, Jamil Jan Kochai, Kitty Liang, Immanuel Mifsud, Amie Zimmerman, Lake Angela, and more.

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Poems, essays, and art by Carl Dennis, Donald Revell, Katrina Vandenberg, Adam Clay, Lyllian-Yvonne Bertram, Karen Brennan, Matthew Vollmer, James Longenbach, and more.

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Poems, essays, and art by Carole Maso, Alice Notley, Kazim Ali, Claudia Keelan, G.C. Waldrep, Bin Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Michael Burkard, and more.

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Erica Trabold

Poems and essays by Donald Revell, Jaswinder Bolina, Nicole Walker, Khaty Xiong, Megan Kaminski, Ely Shipley, Joshua McKinney, Rachel Abramowitz, and more.

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Poems and essays by Nathaniel Mackey, Katharine Coles, Anne Gorrick, Rebecca Lindenberg, Andrew Seguin, Stephen Ackerman, Sarah Bates, Bianca Chang, and more.

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Poems and essays by D.J. Savarese, Dylan Krieger, Julie Marie Wade, Daniel Schonning, Will Redman, James Grabill, Abriana Jetté, George Trakl (trans. Bob Herz), Lisa Knopp, and more.

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The spring 2016 issue of Seneca Review, Bang, Bang, and She’s a Butterfly / 72 poems by 14 Polish Poets, includes poems and essays by Piotr Sommer, Aleksander Wat, Miron Białoszewski, Jerzy Ficowski, Andrzej Bursa, Halina Poświatowska, Krystyna Miłobędzka, Rafał Wojaczek, and others.

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Poems, essays, and art by Hannah Bright, Jessie Sobey, Boyer Rickel, Susan Mitchell, Thomas Mira y Lopez, Herbert Woodward Martin, Stephen Thomas, Emily Rials, and others.

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Our anthology of lyric essays, with contributions written by Eula Biss, Jenny Boully, Anne Carson, Michael Ives, Wayne Koestenbaum, Richard Kostelanetz, Ander Monson, Mary Ruefle, Genevieve Turkett, Wendy Walters, Eliot Weinberger, Shawn Wen, Joe Wenderoth, and Paul West. Introduction by John D’Agata.

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Poems and essays by Sandra Simonds, Dustin Parsons, Karen Brennan, G.C. Waldrep, Liz Howort, Jessica Rae Hahn, Sandra Beasley, David LeGault, and others.

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Poems and essays by Donald Platt, Paul Crenshaw, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Matthew Gavin Frank, Emily Viggiano Saland, Michael Ives, Ronny Someck and Karen Alkalay-Gut, and others. With selections from the Terrible Emmanuel Series by Chris Haven, recipient of the first Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Prize.

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Poems and essays by Ethan Kenvarg, Lisa Fay Coutley, Jenny Gropp Hess, Melanie Conroy-Goldman, Eric Dean Wilson, Ralph James Savarese, Stephen Kuusisto, Timothy O’Keefe, and others. Interview with Noah Eli Gordon by Melissa McCrae.

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Poems and essays by Esvie Coemish, Alice Miller, Bridgette Bates, Julie Marie Wade, Richard Bloom, Coralie Reed, Keith Alexander, Adam Day, and others.

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Poems and essays by Kerry Banazek, Jennifer O’Grady, Rae Gouirand, Bruce Cohen, Karen Leona Anderson, Philip Hopkins, John Paul O’Connor, Zach Savich, and others. Interview with Amy Benson by Jessica Wilson. Interview with Christine Hume by Blake Bronson-Bartlett.

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Poems and essays by Gregory Orr, Sam Hamill, Binh Dahn, Melanie Almeder, Tito Mukhopadhyay, Anne Finger, Katie Ford, Adrienne Rich, and others. Editor’s Note by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese.

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Poems and essays by Catie Rosemurgy, Cecilia Pinto, Laura Brown-Lavoie, Mrigaa Sethi, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Dan Beachy-Quick, Trey Conatser, George Looney, and others. Interview with Dan Beachy-Quick by Geoffrey Hilsabeck. Interview with Timothy Irish Watt by Jessica Wilson.

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Poems and essays by Stephen Kuusisto, Roger Bonair-Agard, Rebecca Weiner, Melissa Ginsburg, K. A. Hays, Jeannette Allée, Joy Katz, Patrick Moran, and others. Interview with Aaron Kunin by Tom Fleischmann.

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Poems and essays by Matthew Lippman, Alice George, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Philip Metres, Thalia Field, Donald Platt, Elizabeth Rush, William Aarnes, and others. Interview with Thalia Field by Ashley Butler, Tom Fleischmann, April Freeley, and Riley Hanick.

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“On the Lyric Essay” celebrates the Seneca Review’s unique subgenre of essay and honors its long-time editor and Professor of English Deborah Tall by examining the lyric essay’s history and place in the literary tradition with an eclectic collection of poems and essays from noteworthy writers, such as Eula Biss, Mary Ruefle, Kristin Prevallet, Martha Ronk, John D’Agata, David Shields, Honor Moore, Nicole Walker, and Dionisio D. Martínez. This special issue also features photographs from John Pfahl, Toshio Shibata, Anthony Goicolea.

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Poems and essays by Renate Wood, Rhonda Pettit, Hailey Leithauser, Marcia Aldrich, Melissa Crowe, Miriam Drev (with translations by Natasha Sajé), Robert Hill Long, Michelle Disler, and others.

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Poems and essays by G.C Waldrep, Mong-Lan, Daneen Wardrop, Cindy Rogers, Héctor Carreto (with translations by Michael Weigers), Orlando Gullén (with translations by Carolyn Forché), María Baranda (with translations by Forrest Gander), Pura López Colomé (with translations by Forrest Gander), Wendy Walters, and others.

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Poems and essays by Natania Rosenfeld, Roberto Juarroz (with translations by Mary Crow), Terri McCord, Megan Grumbling, Martha Ronk, Melissa Kwasny, Melissa Morphew, Susan Goslee, and others.

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Poems and Lyric Essays by David Citino, Landis Everson, Phillip Pardi, Matthew Thorburn, Dara Wier, and others. Translations from the Arabic, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish, including Ingeborg Bachmann and Mahmoud Darwish. Cover art by Katherine Jackson.

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New lyric essays by Eula Biss, Jenny Boully, Christiane Buuck, Catherine Fuerst, Michael Gardner, Ander Monson, Lia Purpura, and Joe Wenderoth, and others. Cover Art by Alice Attie.

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New poems and lyric essays by Laurel Blossom, William Doreski, Joanna Goodman, Vicki Lindner, Mary Ruefle, D.E. Steward, and others. Translations from Algeria, Italy, Latvia, and Romania. Cover Art by Alice Attie.

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New poems and lyric essays by Reza Baraheni, Katie Ford, Stephen Kuusisto, Ander Monson, Jane Satterfield, Reginald Shepherd, Katherine Soniat, A. Van Jordan, and others. Translations from China and India. Cover Art by Nicholas H. Ruth.

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Poems and Lyric Essays by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Joanna Klink, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dionisio D. Martinez, Alicia Ostriker, Valerie Wohlfeld, and others. Translations from the Chinese and French. Cover Art by Phillia Yi.

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New poems and lyric essays by Cal Bedient, Greg Glasner, Christine Hume, Mekeel McBride, and others. Translations from the Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish. Cover Art by Laura Fayer.

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New poems and lyric essays by Melissa Green, John Kinsella, Stephen Sandy, Janet Sylvester, Brian Swann, Joe Wenderoth, and others. Translations from the French, Polish, and Turkish. Cover Art by Laura Fayer.

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New Poems and Lyric Essays by Nin Andrews, James Galvin, Amy Gerstler, David Huddle, Alyce Miller, Debra Nystrom, Rosanna Warren, and others. Excerpts from a collaboration by Rikki Ducornet, Amy England, and Catherine Kaspar. Cover art by Victoria Romanoff.

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New Poems and Lyric Essays by Bernard Cooper, Richard Frost, Patricia Goedicke, Rachel Hadas, Chris Offutt, Mary Ruefle, Richard Shelton, and others. Translations from Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain. Cover art by Victoria Romanoff.

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Poems and lyric essays by Coleman Barks, Alfred Corn, Jorie Graham, Timothy Liu, Carl Phillips, Michael J. Rosen, and others. Translations from Cuba, Korea, Russia, and Turkey. Cover art by Katie Merz.

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Poems by Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Gabriel Gudding, Alicia Ostriker, Reginald Sheperd, Stephanie Strickland, Dara Wier, and others. Lyric essays by Fanny Howe, Richard Kostelanetz, and others. Translations from Hungary, Romania, and Sweden.

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30th Anniversary Issue: "The Lyric Essay." Diane Ackerman, Marcia Aldrich, Maxine Chernoff, Killarney Clary, Stephen Dunn, Judith Kitchen, Phillip Lopate, Carole Maso, Mary Oliver, David Weiss, Joe Wenderoth, and others.

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Jim Crenner, Amy Gerstler, Christopher Merrill, Peter Sacks, Laurie Sheck, James Tate, and others. Translations from the Greek and Persian.

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Wendy Bishop, Mairéad Byrne, Jacqueline Osherow, Liz Rosenberg, Kevin Young, and others. Translations of Umberto Saba, Ales Debeljak, and 3 Israeli Poets. Albert Goldbarth's "Walt Whitman's America."

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Hayden Carruth, W.S. Merwin, Eliot Weinberger, Alexander Theroux, Alyce Miller, Jane Satterfield, and more.

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Lyric Essays by Russell Edson, Denis Johnson, Judith Kitchen, Honor Moore, Natalia Rachel Singer. Poems by Margaret Gibson, Timothy Liu, Reg Saner, and others. Translations from Romania and Peru.

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The Fall 1997 Special Issue: The Lyric Essay. Work by Anne Carson, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Shields, Joe Wenderoth, and Terry Tempest Williams. Poems by L.L. Harper, A. Van Jordan, Neil Fischer, and others. Translations of Pedro Shimose. Introduction by Deborah Tall and John D’Agata.

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Feature: Israeli Women's Poetry, translated by Tsipi Keller and introduced by Yael S. Feldman. Poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Dionisio D. Martinez, Reginald Shepherd, Robert Hill Long, Angela Shaw.

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Poems by William Dickey, Colette lnez, Gerard Malanga, Jack Marshall. Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni and Vietnamese poet Nguyen Quang Thieu.

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An interview with and poems by Heather McHugh. Feature on contemporary Albanian poetry translated and introduced by Henry Israeli. Poems by Albert Goldbarth, Philip Dacey, Margaret Gibson, Cleopatra Mathis.

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Poems by Denise Levertov, Cornelius Eady, Alicia Ostriker, Reginald Shepherd, Carole Simmons Oles, Joan Aleshire, Len Roberts, Laurie Sheck. Translations from the French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Nepali.

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A 25th Anniversary Retrospective. The best poems from the first 25 years of Seneca Review.

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Feature: Jorie Graham – a conversation about Materialism and new poems. Poems by Lisel Mueller, Mekeel McBride, Caroline Finkelstein, Goran Tomic, and Ben Howard. Translations from the Hungarian, Croatian, Catalan, and Spanish.

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Poems by Eavan Boland, Richard Frost, Susan Holahan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pablo Medina, Chard de Niord, Jacqueline Osherow. Translations of Apollinaire, Celan, and Mistral.

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A special double issue featuring new voices in Irish women's poetry, with an introduction by Eavan Boland, and Irish prison poems, with an introduction by Brian Campbell. Translations of Borges, Juan Gelman, Olga Orozco, Jose' Antonio Mazzotti, Eugenio de Andrade, Kirsti Simonsuuri, and Bei Dao.

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Poems by Aga Shahid Ali, Robin Behn, Marianne Boruch, Cornelius Eady, Bill HoIm, Dionisio D. Martinez, Rosanna Warren. Translations from the Polish, Bulgarian and Swedish.

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Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Morgan, Diane Glancy, Lyn Lifshin, Christopher Buckley, Patricia Goedicke. Translations from the Russian, French, and Spanish. Irish poet Eoghan MacCormaic.

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A Special Issue: Taking Note: From Poets' Notebooks. Excerpts from the notebooks of 32 contemporary American poets.

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Poems by Robert Pack, T. Alan Broughton, Linda McCarriston, William Dickey, Dionisio D. Martinez. William Matthews' translations of Martial. Essay by Stephen Kuusisto, "Robert Bly's Iron John and the New 'Laurentian' Man."

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Poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor, Mekeel McBride, Liz Rosenberg, David Baker, Marilyn Chin. Essay by Stephen Dunn.

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Special 20th anniversary issue guest-edited by David Weiss: In the Act: Essays on the Poetry of Hayden Carruth, including an interview with Carruth. Essays by Philip Booth,Wendell Berry, Geof Hewitt, W.S. Dipiero, David Rivard, Maxine Kumin, Anthony Robbins, Stephen Kuusisto, Sam Hamill, William Mathews, Geoffrey Gardner, Carolyn Kizer, David Budbill, and David Weiss.

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Feature: Contemporary Polish Poetry – Szymborska, Ficowski, and others, and an Interview with Stanislaw Baranczak. Poems by Denise Levertov, Gerald Early, Carol Frost, Diane Glancy, Robert Hill Long. Translations of Jules Supervielle, Max Jacob, Mihai Eminiescu, and Angel Gonzalez.

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Poems by Hayden Carruth, William Matthews, Patricia Goedicke, T. Alan Broughton, Sharon Bryan, Stephen Kuusisto. Translations of Yannis Ritsos, Gonzalo Rojas, Raul Barrientos, and Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry.

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Poems by Cornelius Eady, Richard Frost, Brooks Haxton, Suzanne Paolo, Christopher Merrill, Nuala Archer.

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Poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor, Robert Pack, Carl Dennis, Molly Peacock. Essay by Stephen Kuusisto on Nanao Sakaki.

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Poems and translations by Umberto Saba (Christopher Mills, translator), Rochard Zenith, Milo De Angelis (Lawrence Venuti, translator), Gerald Early, Christopher Merrill, Kathy Mangan, and Katherine Soniat.

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Poems by Gregory Orr, Mekeel McBride, Donald Finkel, Cleopatra Mathis, Eric Pankey. Essay by Mary Karr, "Missing Larkin."

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Feature: David St. John – new poems and an interview. Poems by Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, Jared Carter. W.S. Merwin's translations of Roberto Juarroz.

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International Feature: Translations from the Catalan lands, the Middle East, and Asia. Irish poet Eavan Boland.

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Guest-edited by Stephen Dobyns. Poems and an interview with Thomas Lux. Poems by Mary Karr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.K. Williams, Ray Carver, Bill Knott, Steve Orlen, Janet Sylvester, Debra Nystrom, Stuart Dischell.

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Poems by Gary Soto, Charles Simic, Judith Kroll, Natania Rosenfield, Mitchell Toney, and Eugenio Montale (William Arrowsmith, translator).

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Feature: Poems and an interview with Stephen Dunn. Poems by Christopher Buckley, Linda Gregerson, Laurie Sheck, Debra Nystrom, Michael J. Rosen. Essays on Ellen Bryant Voigt and Charles Wright.

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Translations of Rilke, Akhmatova, and from classical and contemporary Arabic poetry. Poems by Rosanna Warren, Carol Frost, Jane Kenyon, Eric Pankey, Walter McDonald, Luis Omar Salinas.

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Feature: Poems and an interview with Andrew Harvey. Poems by Heather McHugh, David St. John, Stephen Dunn, Ann Lauterbach, Hilda Morley. Essays by Dave Smith and Jonathan Holden.

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Guest edited by Roger Weingarten. Essays by William Hathaway, Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, William Meredith, Jane Shore, Pamela Stewart, Richard Tillinghast, and Leslie UlIman, introducing the work of younger poets.

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A special double issue of translations. Poems by Sappho, Rilke, Goethe, Ritsos, Mandelstam, Horace, Dante, Char, Nerval, Laforgue, Prevert, Desnos, Lorca, Nowak, Pasolini, Montale, and many more.

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Donald Hall, "The Poetry Notebook." Poems by Donald Finkel, Roger Weingarten, Clayton Eshleman.

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Double issue with special section on new French poetry and poems by Donald Hall, Albert Goldbarth, X.J. Kennedy, Stuart Dybek, Michael Benedikt, Gregory Orr.

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Special Young Poets Anthology Issue: Steve Orlen, Roberta Spear, Debora Gregor, Stephen Shu Ning Liu, Mary Burritt, Rush Rankin, Alane Rollings.

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Poems by Alicia Ostriker, Diane Ackerman, and James Moore.

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Poems by Donald Hall, Jeff Silva, Larry Levis, Jenne Andrews, Billie Jean James, and Norman Dubie.

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Poems by George Hitchcock, Charles Wright, Norman Dubie; prose by David St. John.

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Poems by Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, David Ignatow, Bill Knott, Debora Greger, Roger Weingarten; interview with Charles Simic.

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Poems by W.D. Snodgrass, Marvin Bell, Albert Goldbarth, Gary Soto, Tom Lux, David St. John, Laura Jensen; prose by Norman Dubie, Monroe Lerner; interview with W.D. Snodgrass.

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Poems by Russell Edson, Michael Benedikt, Tess Gallagher, Norman Dubie, Pamela Stewart; translations of Yannis Ritsos, Pablo Neruda, Dano Agudelo, Carlos Drummond De Andrade; interview with Russell Edson.

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Poems by Robert Bly, Jon Anderson, Jack Meyers, Vern Rutsala, Ross Talarico; translations of Bohdan Antonych, Shen Chou, Gunter Grass.

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Poems by James Tate, Jeff Silva; fiction by Jerry Bumpus, Brian Swann; translations of Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Paul Celan, George Trakl.

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Poems by Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, John Engman; prose by E.M. Broner; translations of Yap-Yum, Neruda, Horace.

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Poems by Mark Halperin, Colette lnez, Greg Kuzma, Carol Frost, Marge Piercy; translations of Rilke, Mayakovsky, Cocteau, Desnos, Max Jacob.

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Poems by Norman Dubie, Sandra Gilbert, and Russel Edson. Fiction by Tom Sinclair and John Hermann. Translations by Istvan Agh, Sandor Scoori, Evgeny Vinokurov, and Paul Eluard. Reviews by Ira Sadoff. Art by Jean Paul Darrien and Lynne Sher.

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Poems by Erica Jong, Heather McHugh, Gregory Orr, James Tate; prose by Raymond Carver; translations of Octavio Paz, Yu-Hsuan-Chi, Johannes Bobrowski.

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Poems by Russell Edson, Jack Anderson, and Peter Wild; prose by Jack Anderson and Russell Edson; translations of Manuel Duran, Takamura, Paul Celan, and Neruda.

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Poetry by Richard Shelton, Greg Kuzma, and Sandra Gilbert. Translations by Paul Eluard, Attilaa Jozsef, and Ranier Maria Rilke. Fiction by W. S. Merwin. Graphic art by Donald Perlis.

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Poems by W.S. Merwin, Charles Wright, Ray Young Bear, William Stafford, David Wagoner, David Ray, and David Ignatow; prose by Henry Roth and Robert Ward; translations of Kotara Takamura.

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Poems by Donald Justice, Robert Mezey, Lucien Stryk, Michael Burkhard, and Greg Kuzma; prose by Lawrence Dunning; translations of Cesar Vallejo, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, and Pablo Neruda; an interview with Donald Justice.

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Poems by Charles Simic, James Tate, Colette lnez, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; prose by Charles Aukema, "Supper with Lindsey," a play by Henry Roth; translations of Vasko Popa.

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Poems by Robert Bly, Stephen Berg, David Ignatow, Donald Justice, and William Matthews; prose by W.S. Merwin, R.V. Cassill.

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