Jason Barry

Jason Barry holds degrees from Boston University and the University of Oxford. His manuscript, Withering Light, was finalist for the 2025 Donald Justice Prize, and his debut chapbook, Fossil & Wing, won the Wil Mills Award at the West Chester University Poetry Center. Jason’s poems have appeared in Subtropics, 32 Poems, The Slowdown, Poetry Ireland Review, Barrow Street, Literary Matters, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

A Review of C. Dale Young’s Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems (1993–2023)

In an American poetry landscape increasingly dominated by Instagramable verse or else steeped in present-day…

Poetic Precision: A Review of Carl Phillips’s ‘Pale Colors in a Tall Field’

The vitality in Carl Phillips’s latest collection of verse, Pale Colors in a Tall Field…