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Garland

  • Kazim Ali
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Sparrow

  • Melissa Kwasny
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Autobiography

  • Samuel Menashe
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Neglect

  • Priscilla Becker
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Attack Attack

  • Mark McKee
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Poet’s Sampler: Stephen Sturgeon

  • Stephen Sturgeon
  • Philip Nikolayev

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Politics

State of the Nation: Tax and Spend

What do you most want congress to do to balance the budget? 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
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Microreview: Paul Guest, Exit Interview

Poems that temper violence with Whitmanesque generosity.

  • Chris Tonelli
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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

  • Kathleen Rooney
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Unfinished Story

On Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff.

  • Kathryn Crim
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Microreview: Paisley Rekdal, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

  • Victoria Chang
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Microreview: Liam Rector, The Executive Director of the Fallen World

The last collection before the poet's suicide. 

  • Robert Schnall
Class & Inequality Race

Ending Urban Poverty: Introduction

What if we stop thinking in terms of place and start thinking about families or individuals?

  • Dalton Conley
Class & Inequality Race

Ending Urban Poverty: The Inherited Ghetto

Understanding the persistence of racial inequality

  • Patrick Sharkey
Class & Inequality Race

Ending Urban Poverty: Neighborhood Matters

Do housing vouchers work?

  • Stefanie DeLuca
Arts in Society Law Politics

All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

  • Vivian Gornick
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Mugger and Mouse Get Married

A story story. 

  • Michael Agresta
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Out of Exile

Notes on Georgi Gospodinov and Bulgarian literature.

  • Dimiter Kenarov
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A Fiendish Mood

The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"

  • Neel Mukherjee
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Modern Hell

Sidney Lumets's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

  • Alan A. Stone
Law Politics

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen
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Small Packages

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève.

  • Jennifer Grotz
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Neither Settled Nor Easy

One Big Self: An Investigation by C.D. Wright.

  • Alan Gilbert
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To Reap the Field

  • Tomaž Šalamun
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