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    Must-Read Poetry: January 2020

    by Nick Ripatrazone Jan 06, 2020 4 minutes

    Here are five notable books of poetry publishing this month.

    Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett

    “Isn’t every poem / for someone? Why you?” Bennett’s songs of longing are clever and carefully rendered—smooth control over lines being only one defining element of this welcome debut collection. Poems switch between first and second person narrator, so that the audience feels like pursuer and pursued, a poetic inversion that is captured through syntax as well: “O light, music, poetry, plague: in a time to come who will remember us?” “Silver Springs,” a periodic poem about and all other things fleeting, centers the collection (when you get to part

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