Reviews

Donnelly’s sensibility has always gathered its strength at the point where essay and lyric meet, where philosophy shades into beautiful brilliant torsion-rich talk, something you might dream of hearing at a dream party in a better world than ours.
Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's

Each book represents another dimension of what, twenty years in, looks like a major body of work... Donnelly has worked within formal constraints frequently, from “Accidental Species” in his first book to “Hymn to Life,” the closing poem in The Problem of the Many.
Paul Scott Stanfield, Hong Kong Review of Books

Donnelly is a poet everyone should read.
David Wheatley, The Guardian

If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn apartment, too many bills, and stack of takeout menus in the top drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems...
Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

[The Cloud Corporation] is an extraordinary collection—the poetry of the future, here, today.
John Ashbery, The London Times

Dramatic tension, humor, lyrical profundity. This is an utterly ingenious and proudly inclusive voice, incorporating clouds—you cannot turn away from it...
Carol Muske-Dukes, Huffington Post

Timothy Donnelly meditates on the very terms that make meditation possible—terms such as “knowledge,” “mystery,” “particular,” “mind,” and “will”...and he makes the tough time we have pinning those terms down into one of his typical subjects. His kind of pessimistic introspection, cast in long sentences and in three-line stanzas, might remind you of late Wallace Stevens...
Stephanie Burt, Coldfront

Timothy Donnelly is a talented writer...an astonishing technician...
David Orr, Poetry

The independence of the imagination must always be defended against mere utility, (Donnelly) implies—even more so when the world makes urgent claims against it.
Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review

Reviews of books by Timothy Donnelly

The Problem of the Many

The Cloud Corporation

Poems
- "The Light" (in the Nation)
- “Roof” (in Surface)
- “Shame” (in the New York Times)
- “Malamute” (in The New Yorker)
- “Unlimited Soup and Salad” (in The New Yorker)
- “Globus Hystericus” (in The Paris Review)
- Three poems (in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art)
- “His Theogeny” and “The New Intelligence”(in Verse Daily)
- Two poems (on The Awl)
- “Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake” (on Poets.org)
- “Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris” (in Memorious)
- “The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious” (in E-Verse)
- “In His Tree” (on The The Poetry)
- “Apologies from the Ground Up” (in Poetry London)
- “Hymn to Life” (in Poetry)

Articles by Timothy Donnelly
- “A Match Made in Poetry: Yvor Winters vs. Hart Crane” (on Poets.org)

Interviews
- Kenyon Review, with Kristina Marie Darling
- Publishers Weekly, with Craig Morgan Teicher
- Harper's Magazine, with Jess Cotton
- Coldfront, with John Deming
- Days of Yore, with Astri von Arbin Ahlander
- Guernica, with Sean Patrick Hill
- The Rumpus, with Stephen Elliot

Audio

- Reading "Shame," for The New York Times Style Magazine
- Reading and discussion of “Fortress,” by Yusef Komunyakaa, as well as his own poem, “Malamute,” for The New Yorker poetry podcast
- Reading Roald Dahl's "Little Red Riding Hood and Wolf" for PEN America

Video
- Reading and discussion with Jennifer Krovonet and Brett Fletcher Lauer, for New York Public Library’s Periodically Speaking series

Footage from the The Cloud Corporation release party in Brooklyn, including brief interviews with Mary Jo Bang, Mark Strand and Joshua Bell:


Discussing the influence of the internet on writing for the 2012 Poets Forum:


Reading at Claremont University: