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Acts of Mind

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer.

  • Katie Peterson
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Microreview: Cole Swensen, The Book of a Hundred Hands

100 poems on the human hand, from its prehistory to its depiction in contemporary painting.

  • Rob Schlegel
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Microreview: Tom Thompson, The Pitch

Selling is the mode in which this collection operates.

  • Samuel Amadon
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Microreview: Jane Yeh, Marabou

An impressive first collection.

  • Jennifer Chang
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Microreview: Dean Young, Embryoyo

Poems that ricochet like pinballs with their own eclectic brand of kinesis.

  • Tess Taylor
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Microreview: Nathaniel Bellows, Why Speak?

Poems full of wide-eyed candor of both the marvelous and the grotesque.

  • Kathryn Crim

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from Liner Notes

  • Andrew Mister
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The Attorney Updates His Architect Spouse After Finding Premises for a Transcending Facility

  • Andrew Seguin
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Boom Kiss Booom Boom Kiss

  • David Lau
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A Name for this Bird

  • Nicholas Laughlin
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Dreams Like a Bird

  • Nicholas Laughlin
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Lookouts and Spies

  • Deborah Anne Roth
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Sorry, T.

  • Brenda Shaughnessy
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The Terrier

  • Jean Esteve
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Of Progress and Implied Mission

  • Karla Kelsey
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Poet’s Sampler: Kevin Davies

  • Kevin Davies
  • Joshua Clover
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan

  • Sarah Chayes
Class & Inequality Politics Race

The Geography of Poverty

Democrats missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact.

  • Dalton Conley
Philosophy Science

Knowing Right and Wrong

Is Morality a Natural Phenomenon?

  • Alex Byrne
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Babarian’s Fantasies

A short story. 

  • Peter Mountford
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Homeland

The new generation of Nigerian writers.

  • Andrée Greene
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Paradise Lost

The novels of Sarah Waters.

  • Jan Clausen
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Any Human Heart

A review of Alejandro Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Into the Language Lab

Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr's Poetry and Pedagogy.

  • BK Fischer
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