Forum: Inequality Matters

Nancy Birdsall

With Delicate Hand

Nick Twemlow

View of the City

Carrie Bennett

Inside the Machine

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

A Long Romance

Allen Grossman

Delivering Health Care

Michael Kremer and David Clingingsmith

The Problem of Corruption

Benjamin A. Olken

Plunder

Michael Robins

Guantanamo

Jorie Graham

Days of Lies and Roses

Sarah Chayes

The Lost Colony

Susan Stewart

The Geography of Poverty

Dalton Conley

Knowing Right and Wrong

Alex Byrne

Poem composed of statements made by George W. Bush in January 2003

H. L. Hix

At the Curved Bridge

Carrie Bennett

Barbarians’ Fantasies

Peter Mountford

The Nature of Encounters

Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Homeland

Andrée Greene

Reviewed:

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf, 2006.

GraceLand

by Chris Abani. Picador, 2005.

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf, 2004.

The Virgin of Flames

by Chris Abani. Penguin Books, 2007.

Becoming Abigail

by Chris Abani. Akashic Books, 2006.

Beasts of No Nation

by Uzodinma Iweala. HarperCollins, 2005.

The Icarus Girl

by Helen Oyeyemi. Knopf, 2006.

Paradise Lost

Jan Clausen

Metonymic Sonnet

Michele Glazer

Poet’s Sampler

Mark Doty introduces James Hall

Into the Language Lab

Barbara K. Fischer

Reviewed:

Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary

ed. John Retallack and Juliana Spahr. Palgrave, 2006.

Grand Failure

Calvin Bedient

Reviewed:

Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters

ed. Langdon Hammer. The Library of America, 2006.

A Measure of Splendor

VIctoria Chang

Reviewed:

So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005

by Taha Muhammad Ali, trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Copper Canyon Press, 2007.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

by Anna Moschavakis. Turtle Point Press, 2006.

Always Danger

by David Hernandez. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Man and Camel

by Mark Strand. Knopf, 2006.

Correspondence

by Kathy Graber. Saturnalia, 2005.

Averno

by Louise Glück. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007.

Any Human Heart

Alan A. Stone