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Vol. 46 No. 4 - Jul/Aug 2017

Vol. 46 No. 4 - Jul/Aug 2017

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Allison Adair:  Ways to Describe a Death Inside Your Own Living Body
Kaveh Akbar:  Political Poem • Poem for My Mother on 28th Anniversary of the Iran Air Flight 655 Disaster • Holy as We Please • Best Shadows • If You Think You Can Scare Me You Probably Can
Ellen Bass:  The Kitchen Counter • Goat, Cow, Man • Overdoing It
Michael Bazzett:  At Night • The Cellar • Cain and Abel, Revisited • The Subterranean Room
Eric Berlin:  "The Alter-Place" - Bruce Smith interviewed by Eric Berlin
David Biespiel:  Legible Horizon (review of Hammer Is the Prayer by Christian Wiman; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, 224 pages)
Tyree Daye:  Brionne Janae interviewed by Tyree Daye
Piotr Florczyk:  Stoking the Light (review of Cinder: New and Selected Poems by Susan Stewart; Graywolf, 2017, 256 pages)
Terrance Hayes: 
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "America, you just wanted change is all, a return"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "Aryans, Betty Crocker, Bettye LaVette,"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "Goddamn, so this is what it means to have a leader"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "I pour a pinch of serious poison for you James"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "I remember my sister's last hoorah. She joined the black"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "It was discovered the best way to combat"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "On some level, I'm always full of Girl Scout cookies"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "Probably, ghosts are allergic to us. Our uproarious"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "Rilke ends his sonnet 'Archaic Torso of Apollo' saying"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "The difference between stay woke & don't sleep"
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "The earth of my nigga eyes are assassinated."
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin   "When I am nowhere near the ledge or knife covered"
Bob Hicok:  Flight plan • The class visit • Going back to basics • The point of life • Friends
Brionne Janae:  Brionne Janae interviewed by Tyree Daye
Brionne Janae:  Corneas • Liver • Picture After the Big Game • And Then
Thomas E. Kennedy:  "Dead End Boogie" by Dan Turell (translated from the Danish by Thomas E. Kennedy)
Steven Kleinman:  When in New Cities • World of Cease • Metaphor of a Starfish
Jennifer L. Knox:  Wolverine Season • You Look at the Window
Ginger Ko:  I Sang Mind Because I Could Not Sing Body • Not Every People Has Had a Sailor • My Only Consistency Is Me: That I Act • The Yellowed Wind Found Inside Thunder
Ada Limon:  The Year of the Goldfinches • Almost Forty • It's Harder • Sundown and All the Damage Done
Ernst Meister:  Of Entirety Say the Sentence by Ernst Meister (Wave Books, 2015, 192 pages) reviewed by Joshua Weiner
Nathaniel Perry:  On the Cusp of Devotion: A Squirrel, Doubt, and Geoffrey Hill
Alicia Jo Rabins:  Remember How We Planned to Get Married and Have Children? • Questions from My Uterus on the Occasion of My Husband's Vasectomy • My New Face • Passenger • Pig in a Blanket • I Dream of My Baby Sleeping While He Sleeps • Cradle Cap
Bruce Smith:  "The Alter-Place" - Bruce Smith interviewed by Eric Berlin
Sparrow:  From Stansted to Heathrow
Susan Stewart:  Cinder: New and Selected Poems by Susan Stewart (Graywolf, 2017, 256 pages) reviewed by Piotr Flotczyk
Dan Turell:  Dead End Boogie (translated from the Danish by Thomas E. Kennedy)
Laura Van Prooyen:  The Calumet Region
Nikki Wallschlaeger:  I'd Come Back from the Grave to Celebrate the End of Capitalism
Joshua Weiner:  Reading Ernst Meister (review of Of Entirety Say the Sentence by Ernst Meister; Wave Books, 2015, 192 pages)
Marlys West:  By That I Do Mean Horse
Christian Wiman:  Hammer Is the Prayer by Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, 224 pages) reviewed by David Biespiel
Dean Young:  Dance Event • Phantom Pains • Flower in Handcuffs • Unprotected • The Science of Thunder