Dilruba Ahmed: -Nation (an excerpt) • "Mother's Revenge: Afghan Woman 'Kills 25 Taliban' After Son Shot Dead"
David Biespiel: So Many Flags
Books reviewed in this column
Yehuda Amichai. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 (reviewed by David Biespiel)
Chana Kronfeld, The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Stanford University Press, 2016 (reviewed by David Biespiel)
Marianne Boruch: Track • Progress
Brian Brodeur: Talk of the Nation
Liz Countryman: The End Is Always Sudden
Cynthia Cruz: Duras Series: six small poems • Duras: Mystic • Duras: The Mute • Duras: Booze and God • Duras: The Dead • Duras: Nothing [When writing,…] • Duras: Nothing [M.D. becomes…]
Sarah Gambito: Cento • The New Child • First Born
Kelle Groom: L'amoureuse
Tony Hoagland: Going Crosstown: Four Poems About Race by White People
Poems discussed in this column
Lydia Davis, “Family”
Douglas Goetsch, “Black People Can’t Swim”
Jeffrey McDaniel, “When Was Heaven Desegregated?”
Lucia Perillo, “The Wolves of Illinois”
Kjerstin Anne Kauffman: The Sensation of Prayer: A Review of Malachi Black's Storm Toward Morning
Yusef Komunyakaa: from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A
Sharon Mesmer: The Creation of Herself: Eunice Idio's Mythopoetics
Kate Monaghan: America
Alan Michael Parker: Funny Poems • Ein Kunstlerroman • Springtime in Tampa • I'm Here to Give a Little Talk on Singing • Two Rabbits in the Title, and Seventeen Rabbits in the Poem
Ed Pavlic: Driving Through South Carolina, Twice, on the Day Which Is Every Day: June 18th, 2015
Ira Sadoff: Nothing • Emendation • 1988 • Pastorale
Maxine Scates: The Family
Sandra Simonds: Dear Chris, • Our Lady of Perpetual Help • Ode to Suicide, Delirium and Early REM
Gerald Stern: Bollingen, 1949 • No One • Perish the Day • Billionaires • Lips • Merwin • Poverty • Route 29 • Galaxy Love
David Biespiel: So Many Flags
Books reviewed in this column
Yehuda Amichai. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 (reviewed by David Biespiel)
Chana Kronfeld, The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Stanford University Press, 2016 (reviewed by David Biespiel)
Marianne Boruch: Track • Progress
Brian Brodeur: Talk of the Nation
Liz Countryman: The End Is Always Sudden
Cynthia Cruz: Duras Series: six small poems • Duras: Mystic • Duras: The Mute • Duras: Booze and God • Duras: The Dead • Duras: Nothing [When writing,…] • Duras: Nothing [M.D. becomes…]
Sarah Gambito: Cento • The New Child • First Born
Kelle Groom: L'amoureuse
Tony Hoagland: Going Crosstown: Four Poems About Race by White People
Poems discussed in this column
Lydia Davis, “Family”
Douglas Goetsch, “Black People Can’t Swim”
Jeffrey McDaniel, “When Was Heaven Desegregated?”
Lucia Perillo, “The Wolves of Illinois”
Kjerstin Anne Kauffman: The Sensation of Prayer: A Review of Malachi Black's Storm Toward Morning
Yusef Komunyakaa: from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A
Sharon Mesmer: The Creation of Herself: Eunice Idio's Mythopoetics
Kate Monaghan: America
Alan Michael Parker: Funny Poems • Ein Kunstlerroman • Springtime in Tampa • I'm Here to Give a Little Talk on Singing • Two Rabbits in the Title, and Seventeen Rabbits in the Poem
Ed Pavlic: Driving Through South Carolina, Twice, on the Day Which Is Every Day: June 18th, 2015
Ira Sadoff: Nothing • Emendation • 1988 • Pastorale
Maxine Scates: The Family
Sandra Simonds: Dear Chris, • Our Lady of Perpetual Help • Ode to Suicide, Delirium and Early REM
Gerald Stern: Bollingen, 1949 • No One • Perish the Day • Billionaires • Lips • Merwin • Poverty • Route 29 • Galaxy Love
