The Rising Tide
Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider
A well worn inclined ramp for launching vessels, or, body integrity identity disorder
Thomas Hummel
Call of the Tribe
Glenn C. Loury
Sea Horse
Aleš Šteger
Constitutional Conventions
William Hogeland
Now There Are Two Poems In Which We Are Kissing
Rebecca Bridge
The Mourner’s Hope
Martha C. Nussbaum
Insensibility
Wilfred Owen
The Good Life
Claude S. Fischer
Reviewed:
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009
by Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Not Free at Any Price
Richard M. Stallman
Every Leaf, Every Tree
Neel Mukherjee, art by Tom Uglow
The Weight of Grief
Kristin S. vanNamen
Ruined Interior
Suzanne Buffam
Uproars
John Crowley
Home, Away
Margaret Monaghan
Pig’s Heaven Inn
Arthur Sze
Bad News
Amitava Kumar
in the dark I stare through your cream gauze drape and hope for your shape to pass
Tom Bourguignon
2008 Poetry Contest
John Koethe introduces Sarah Arvio
Listening to Poetry
Zach Finch
Reviewed:
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
by Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian. Wesleyan University Press, 2008.
Wanderer
Aaron McCollough
Reviewed:
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
by Jay Wright. Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
Polynomials and Pollen
by Jay Wright. Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
Poet’s Sampler
D.A. Powell introduces Patrick Moran
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Elegy
by Mary Jo Bang. Graywolf Press, 2007.
The Invention of Culture
by Lisa Samuels. Shearsman Books, 2008.
Curves to the Apple
by Rosemarie Waldrop. New Directions, 2007.
The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story
by Rusty Morrison. Ahsahta Press, 2008.
House Held Together By Winds
by Sabra Loomis. Harper Perennial, 2008.
What Does Woody Want?
Alan A. Stone
Chernobyl
Emily Fragos
