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violence
328 pieces
Parable
CPR @ 2pm
PTSD
X: The (Vainglorious) Son Proceeds
The Junebugs
A Trade
Platonic Love
R.U.R. Act Three
Diluvian
Postdiluvian
exercise in keeping it all in
Ars Poetica
It Is 6 p.m. on the 2 Train Downtown
From Anger to Forgiveness
Linnets
To a Wren on Calvary
Where Your Sister Danced in Other Years We Flee and Shelter
Election Day in Florida
The Lynching Industry
“NAACP [Tulsa Riots]” from The Crisis
To All Whom These Presents Shall Come
Bleeding Among the Briars
Free Time
The Heart of Daggers
Nadia
And Should We Thank God
Guarding George Wallace
Preschool
Review by Michelle Goshen | “Bloomland,” by John Englehardt
After
Scar 21
Francis Bacon Swallows the Head Whole,
Firing Squad
As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper
Winter Stars
Review by Colin Bailes | “Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky
The Way Some People Laugh at Funerals
Inheritance of Fire
The Children (Part II)
Riflesong of a Dalit Comrade
A Small Talk
Review by Weston Morrow | “Brute” by Emily Skaja
Not Before but After Us
[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy]
Old Spice & Cordite
Escape Plans
On Lockdown
Fish
Diorama (the young solider returning to duty)
Bystanders
Neutral Bodies
Fundamental Attribution Error
Single Shot
A Teacher’s Story
Maybe It Was Summer
Words in a Dead Girl’s Mouth
1912: Hush Harbor
Portrait of The Alcoholic with Invader and Housefly
Tara’s Suit
Fish
Winter Stars
Apology
Blood
Confiscation
A Riot
The Way I Scream
From The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun
What Yields
Ordinary Pleasure
poli—
1917 Suite | “Mrs. Virginia Bovee’s Affidavit”
1917 Suite | “Administrative Terrorism”
Memory and Language
Clytemnestra
Solutions
Mirrorform: Visionary
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Drone
Force Visibility
Mess Hall
daayan, feet facing forward
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout
Pandora Opens USA Today, December 3, 2015, and Drafts an Editorial
How to Remember
Review | Look, by Solmaz Sharif
Nude in Front of the Garden
Playwright’s Notes
Rec Center
Lavinia, Afterwards
Philomela After the Metamorphosis
The Shock of War & All Those Bodies Effed [Dead
A Coward for a Daughter
October Chorus
Mr. Hen
Letter 15
Letter 5
Letter 7
from The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Translation Theory
Lord and Chariot
Mood for Love
Writing an Elegy
Bramble Lane
If the Girl Refuses
All the Grand Deaths
The Most Dangerous Crossing: Reconstituting Nationality in Josué Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa
Bluebeard’s Closet
Bright White Blur
Distance
Trakl at Sandy Hook
The Little Lion, Introduction
The Little Lion, Act One
The Little Lion, Act Two
What Is It Like to Get Punched in the Face?
Translated from the Bosnian
Samson Reconsiders
Elegy for the Deodand
Disciplining the Body
Politics of the Afterlife
Agca
Kale Soup
Windfall
bright one
Gender Studies
In a Brief, Animated World: The Marriage of Anne of Denmark to James of Scotland, 1589
Cross Country
Road to Canaan
The Study of Tragedy
Review | Seam, by Tarfia Faizullah
“Q&A with Roger Reeves”
Different Fires
For Us
The School
Acres
Heart
Cassowary
Circle in the Grass
The Field
Of Current
Of Earth
Of Hardship
Of Opposites
Of Religion
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Wish
Fight or Flight
The Lost Boys
Ma the Movie Star
Vectors
Snow Down in Hong Kong
Young Widower
The Necessary Angel
Aberration
After the Tornado, the Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving
The Tornado Visits the Town
Elegy 2
West
May 13th, 2012
Stalker
[There are two ways maybe four there are]
Dear Claudia—
Lucy,
Lucy wraps salmon
The Man Code
Afterword.
The First Light of a Quantum Plenum
Urn Burial
Jail by Church and School
Regiment, 1941
The Girl Who Was A Victim Of The Flood
The Burn Pit Detail at FOB Cobra
Ways of Looking at an IED
a playground in daegu
the wild wild east
Confessions for the Guerrilla Fighter Upstairs
Thallium
Essence and Justification
Review | When the Only Light Is Fire, by Saeed Jones
Amputation Transcript, a Redaction
Lions Are Fed Donkeys in Baghdad Zoo: YouTube
from Unseen Character
Introductions Reading Loop, Blackbird
Magician’s Girl
White-Armed Persephone Walks Into His Van
Brochure for Exile
In the Afternoon Men Are Dreaming of the Dark
Finding Ray’s Sausage in East Cleveland on Google Earth
Disarmed
Diamonds in the Rough
Allen Whicher's Love Tale
Review of Ghost Lights by Keith Montesano
from The Fallen | Kalinovik
Passeridae
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 11
Joshua Fought
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
Pesem talca
Confusion
Hostage's Poem, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Ochre ix
Ochre x
Ochre xi
Ochre xiv
from The Fallen | Rooftops
Mutiny
Banking for the Dead
Witnesses
The Angel of Death Knocks at the Door
Communion
Learning How to Meditate in Gowhar’s Plum Orchard
Everything Before “Happy” Is True
Skandalon
Epithalamion
Sixteen Poems
Sixteen Poems
Last Date with Narcissus
Family Vacation
Boys Whistling like Canaries by Jorn Ake
An excerpt from Devil’s Dream
The Apple Pipe
Sighting
Linnets
As I Remember It
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
And Ever
Review of Incident at the edge of Bayonet Woods by Paula Bohince
Review of Miscreants by James Hoch
Police Report, November 25, 2007
Rimbaud’s Kraken
Taste of Cherry
Self-Portrait with an Ice Pick
My City
Letter to the City Bayou by Its Sign: Beware Alligators
Harold Street Eclogue
Patina: A Triptych
Fried Chicken
Letter to N., Paris
Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives
Mr. Brown Takes His Students to the Museum
Response to, "Why Don't You Write about Something Happy?"
Two Poets to Watch
Thanksgiving
All My Vendettas I’ve Given Your Name
Behind the Old Soldiers’ Hospital
Supermax
Perfection, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry
Four selections from “There Are No Names for Red,” Chris Abani
After Hanging Mao Posters
Postmortem Examination on the Body of Clifford Baxter
Winter Stars
The Old House With Thee
Elegy in Late Spring
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Slasher Flick, Cahterine Pierce
Review of Kettle Bottom by Diane Fisher
Kabul Revisited, from The War Zone is My Bed
A Fine Romance
I am not a man; I am dynamite
Muse
Guns, Tea, and Eating Chicken, Kathy Davis
Introduction, The Dear Boy
Introduction, The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
Obadiah (I)
Obadiah (III) Peter Orner
Exodus
Tolberton County, 1923
End of Free Love
For Lamar Smith
At Liberty
For Reverend James Reeb
Substantiation
You
Light
Requiem
Domesticity
Mark Time
Cruelty
American Landscape Painting
My Father and the Quail
From a Distance, I Saw Bird
From The Machine Gunner’s Letters
Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin
Safe From Trains
Selektion: The Painted Girl
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, II
From Bhutan, Scene One
From Bhutan, Scene Three
Two Lives
Violet, from The Night Edith Didn't Die
Colorization
A Mountain Lion Makes Ready
Sarah Bednarek | Reclining Terrorists
Dragon Boat Festival
Beggars
Bunk Richardson
Consolation
On Tallasseehatchee Creek
Vigil
Review | The Room Where I Was Born, by Brian Teare
K. 525
Le Jazz Hot
Margie
For Dancers Only
What the Dead Deserved
After Science
Tubman's Rock
The University Investigation Into My Classroom Pedagogy
Our Memory, the Shining Leaves (Waterford Fair Civil War Reenactment)
The Stigmata Rather than a Punch on the Nose
Bad Night at Club Solidarity
The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610
Bed of Nails
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
Empty Bed Blues
On the Bus
The Perils of Censorship, R. T. Smith