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Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout's Money Shot.

  • William Montgomery
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Microreview: Laura Solomon, The Hermit

“I dreamt of a poem in which I mastered all my feelings.”

  • Nate Pritts
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Microreview: Lisa Fishman, Flower Cart

Poems driven by the spirit of thing-finding.

  • Leah Falk
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Microreview: Eugenijus Ališanka, from unwritten histories

Giving voice to identity and experience.

  • Kristie Kachler
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Microreview: Albert Mobilio, Touch Wood

Bare poetic essentials that at the same time function as gleaming ornaments.

  • Alan Gilbert
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Microreview: Shira Dentz, black seeds on a white dish

Poems that challenge the reader to some speedy catch-me-if-you-can linguistic play.

  • Celia Bland

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2011 Poetry Contest

  • Heather Tone
  • Tomaž Šalamun
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The Man from the Phone Company

  • J. T. Welsch
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The Harp and the Machine

  • Terese Svoboda
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Argument in Optative

  • Emily Wolahan
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Commonplace

  • Rusty Morrison
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Commonplace

  • Rusty Morrison
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A Taxonomy of the Etiquette of Brandos

  • Eric Kocher
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The Spot

  • Joseph P. Wood
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Villanelle on a Line from Macbeth

  • Michael Davis
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Thin Kimono

  • Megan Levad

From the Editors: November/December 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

Where Love Grows

Eugenides’s novel The Marriage Plot is about becoming an adult, about moving, marrying, and making mistakes.

  • Leland de la Durantaye
Philosophy Politics

Libertarianism and Liberty

It’s not clear how libertarians argue from their starting point of liberty to their policy conclusion of limited government and lower taxes.

  • T. M. Scanlon
with responses from
  • J. Bradford DeLong
  • Will Wilkinson
Politics

What Would Emma Do?

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

  • Vivian Gornick
  • David V. Johnson
Law Politics

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians are ambivalent about statehood bid.

  • Mya Guarnieri
Law Politics Science

Unfair Advantages

Selling Asymmetric War at the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Trade Show

  • Joseph Nevins
Law

Regime Change Doesn’t Work

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

  • Alexander B. Downes
with responses from
  • Greg Grandin
  • Neta C. Crawford
  • James D. Fearon
  • Mary Kaldor
  • John Tirman
  • Tod Lindberg
  • Joanne Landy
Class & Inequality Politics

Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street

I had always thought that surely cops wouldn’t hurt people without a really good reason. But they do.

  • Jeanne Mansfield
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