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Mikhail Aizenberg
translated from Russian by Boris Kokotov
It’s quiet here—except for a squeaking stroller
It’s really nice
around here
A Plot
Susan Aizenberg
After Reading the News This Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem
Eleanor Remembers Her Soldier
Now That You’re Nowhere
Francesca Bell
Intention Tremor
The Way Some People Laugh at Funerals
Fleda Brown
Museum
Picnic, with Geese
Stump
Kenneth Chacón
Christ in a Cholo Stance
Letter to Neighbor after We Moved to the Good Part of Town
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Week 25: Rutabaga
Carol Ann Davis
From this blue born
Looking for God (its big
machine)
What is the layer
Claudia Emerson
The Bookmobile Lady: Pittsylvania County, Virginia
On Leaving the Body to Science
Jennifer Franklin
Annunciation, without Angel
June
Reading
about the Lost Children of Tuam
Still Life with
Gold
Kathleen Heil
Collection & Identification
Jaimee
Hills
Inheritance of Fire
TJ Jarrett
The Cantor
The Children (Part II)
Jennary:
Hinterland
Robert Lynn
Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of
Russian Roulette
Margaret Mackinnon
Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1475
Looking for
Virginia Dare
David Moolten
Camouflage
The Kite
William Olsen
As Cheer Passed by a Death Bed
Shaken, as
of Things That Are Made
Three Versions of an
Underpass, Somewhere outside Houston
Felicity Sheehy
Apollo Catches Daphne
At Ten
Makeup
My Mother Has Had It with the Tragedies
Samyak Shertok
In the Year of the Earth
King Vulture
Riflesong of a
Dalit Comrade
A Small Talk
James Tate
Nine Posthumous Poems
Tomas Tranströmer
translated from Swedish by Patty Crane
After a Long Drought
The Black Mountains
The Boat—The Village
From Winter 1947
Funchal
Homeward
Ranjana Varghese
My Brother the Artist, at Seven
Chelsea Woodard
At the Lepidopterist’s House