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Commuter by James Belflower. Instance Press, $15. Reviewed by Jordan Windholz James Belflower’s debut collection, Commuter , is a difficult...

Underground National by Sueyeun Juliette Lee. Factory School, $15. Reviewed by Thomas Fink Underground National , Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s se...

Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Bozicevic. Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009. Reviewed by Mary Austin Speaker Ana Bozicevic was born in Croatia a...

Barn Burned, Then by Michelle Taransky. Omnidawn Publishing, $14.95. Review by Lindsay Kathleen Turner Selected by Marjorie Welish as the w...

G.C. Waldrep NATIONAL GALLERY Why does everything have to be a Native American burial ground. I have not set fire to any visiting poets. You...

William Pettit The Opposite of a Dog The scars of boredom On this constant heap Add some white wisdom to her suffrage If turned around and s...

Tomaz Salamun SUTRA What is the sea? The sea is the forehead. What is the forehead? The forehead is the night. What is the sand? The sand is...

Ali Lanzetta the invention of water . . . our last page waits with cold wings furled, can't stand a cold angel, shut up like cherry-buds...

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy. Riverhead Books, $25.95. Reviewed by Katy Einerson Maile Meloy’s second short story col...

Dawn Marie Knopf HIGH TEA Sits the city centre known as Poor's House of Cactus the beacon both the ladies & the queens said so they ...

Stuart Friebert SHOES The donkey-skinned pair God ordered Moses to remove before treading holy soil. Did he sit down to do ...

Günter Eich APPLICATION Some knowledge of damming wild creeks, familiar with health insurance measures for apprentice weavers, unafraid of e...

Elliot Figman PLEASE EAT PLANS A statement is no match for it. Not when calls again pleased a little better than Harry knows this much true....

Kelli Anne Noftle MATING RITUALS You feel listless as underthings unravel. At the bottom of an ocean, near her neck where the collar dips—so...

Laura Wetherington In the day I dream in future tense: past sedative plus perfect the present is a pasture: a funny joke about pointers. it ...

David O’Connell SGT. BRADLEY TALKS EMERGENCY PROCEDURE We come to when he says raise all shades, when he says snipers will take...

Ben Mazer He saw the birdwatcher in the distance raised the gun to his head, the woman yelled "oh lord" the animals scattered and ...

The world lost a rare light when Vic Chesnutt passed away yesterday. He has left behind some of the most incisive, poignant, and mordant son...

Ben Mazer Cookies and Lamictal The undershirt of my imagination stinks with always persuading sheerly by tone the remembered dipsticks of ou...

Don Share DED (Dutch Elm Disease) The town came round and said Our tree must come down-- Like a bell without a clapper, This yard without it...