Poems

Poet's Sampler: Ashley Capps

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Ashley Capps

First Counter–clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip

John Kinsella

Acorn Duly Crushed

Heather Christle

When the President is Black

Marlys West

Elegy

Bruce Bond

Hwan’s Condition

James Shea

Exit Ovidian

Dean Young

The Mosquito Monocracy

Adam O. Davis

And I Do Desire Your Looking Back

’Annah Sobelman

It Never Goes Away

Sophie Cabot Black

Essays

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words
Colin Dayan

The Crucified Hand

Frank Bidart's Waiting for the Spring Festival
Raymond McDaniel

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky
Marjorie Perloff

Free Verse

Alan Filreis's Counter-Revolution of the Word
Charles Bernstein

Landmarks

Kathleen Jamie's Waterlight and Findings
Tess Taylor

The Ecstatic Nation

Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11
Maureen McLane

The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania
Erin Belieu

Ghosts

Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract
Andrew Zawacki

Microreviews

Door to a Noisy Room
Feral
Tendril
The Forms of Youth
The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure