Michael Dowdy: Ascendance and Abjection: Reading Latina/o Poetry in the Summer of Trump
Beth Ann Fennelly: Reduced Sentences
Jamie Asaye FitzGerald: Deciduous
Gemma Gorga: Excerpts from Book of Minutes (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)
Edward Hirsch: What Is the Task?
Marie Howe: How the Story Started • Magdalene: The Addict • The Affliction • What I Did Wrong • Magdalene and the Interior Life • The Disciples • Magdalene Afterwards • The Adoption: When the Girl Arrived • Magdalene: Her Dream of Integration • The Girl at 3
Marcus Jackson: Travel Plans • The Former Us
Katy Lederer: Crowning • Acephalic • Frozen Angels • Horror Autotoxicus
Dave Lucas: Three Kings • The Book of Job
Jesse Nathan: Invocation • November 14
Ed Pavlic: "Outward in larger terms/A mind inhaling exigency" Review of Adrienne Rich Collected Poems: 1950-2012. Part 2. "look at her closely if you dare" (1970-1981)
Carlos Pintado: The Greek Vase • The Walk • Challenge • Brief Japanese Treaty • The Spencer Tunick Picture
Donald Revell: Confessio Amantis
Mira Rosenthal: New Poetry in Translation: Friendships Between Ghosts
Chris Stroffolino: (Begin with your father's fear of flowers) • (The maid with no time to clean her own flat) • (While you were out courting the holy grail) • (Establish the democratic vision) • (And when see-through love, if such exists, is)
Afaa Michael Weaver: Grabbing Lunch in the Morgue • Get on Up, Now • Blood of a Union of States • The Gray Mare
Jane Wong: I Put on My Fur Coat
Beth Ann Fennelly: Reduced Sentences
Jamie Asaye FitzGerald: Deciduous
Gemma Gorga: Excerpts from Book of Minutes (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)
Edward Hirsch: What Is the Task?
Marie Howe: How the Story Started • Magdalene: The Addict • The Affliction • What I Did Wrong • Magdalene and the Interior Life • The Disciples • Magdalene Afterwards • The Adoption: When the Girl Arrived • Magdalene: Her Dream of Integration • The Girl at 3
Marcus Jackson: Travel Plans • The Former Us
Katy Lederer: Crowning • Acephalic • Frozen Angels • Horror Autotoxicus
Dave Lucas: Three Kings • The Book of Job
Jesse Nathan: Invocation • November 14
Ed Pavlic: "Outward in larger terms/A mind inhaling exigency" Review of Adrienne Rich Collected Poems: 1950-2012. Part 2. "look at her closely if you dare" (1970-1981)
Carlos Pintado: The Greek Vase • The Walk • Challenge • Brief Japanese Treaty • The Spencer Tunick Picture
Donald Revell: Confessio Amantis
Mira Rosenthal: New Poetry in Translation: Friendships Between Ghosts
Books Discussed in the Column
Christian Hawkey. Ventrakl. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010
Claudia Keelan (Translator). Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz. Omnidawn, 2015.
Angelica Freitas. Rilke Shake. (Translated by Hilary Kaplan). Phoneme Media, 2015.
Nicole Steinberg: What Was Under All That Snow? • The Eggplant Emoji Means Exactly What You Think It Means • How to Optimize Your Flesh PrisonChris Stroffolino: (Begin with your father's fear of flowers) • (The maid with no time to clean her own flat) • (While you were out courting the holy grail) • (Establish the democratic vision) • (And when see-through love, if such exists, is)
Afaa Michael Weaver: Grabbing Lunch in the Morgue • Get on Up, Now • Blood of a Union of States • The Gray Mare
Jane Wong: I Put on My Fur Coat
