/nor

Joshua Auerbach
Diary of a Journalist
Chaos Effect

Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Draft 68: Threshold
Draft 76: Work Table with Scale     Models

V. L. Bond
Dinner Party
Tribute to Richard Pryor

Andrzej Bursa
Translated from Polish by Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz
Wiara / Faith

Rick Bursky
The Immortals

Stephen Burt
In Memory of the Rock Band
  Breaking Circus

François Camoin
Feathers from the Bird of Paradise

Tyler Carter
Prelude & Fugue
Sprocket vs. Cause

Karla Clark
Blessing for Protest

Adam Clay
Psalm

Stephen Cope
Sonnet (from “Styles of Love and   Negation”)

Joshua Corey
Aboulia
Lithophobe

John Gallaher
Public Poem
The Disease of Clocks

Noah Eli Gordon and
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
From Figures for a Darkroom       Voice

Allen Grossman
Treason
A Gust of Wind
A Kiss for You

Carla Harryman
From Adorno’s Noise

Erika Howsare
From Bicentury (New Rows and     Locks)

Lisa Jarnot
Jewish Community Center of         Houston
Alberta, Canada

Nathaniel Mackey
From Bass Cathedral

Khaled Mattawa
Tocqueville

Joyelle McSweeney
From Nylund, the Sarcographer

Andrew Mister
From Liner Notes

Rosalind Morris
The Age of Dinosaurs

Thylias Moss
The Pampering of Leora
World View

Kirk Nesset
Affair-Proof Your Marriage:
A Manual (Installment Seven)

Amy Newman
Dear Editor: 5 October 2005
Dear Editor: 30 October 2005

Marjorie Perloff and David Wojahn
A Critical Exchange on Selected Poems: Expanded Edition, Including Selections from Day by Day, by Robert Lowell, with a Foreword by Frank Bidart

Tom Pickard
Journal Excerpts

Francis Ponge
Translated by Graham Foust
The Cigarette / La cigarette
The Candle / La bougie
Rain / Pluie
The Last Simplicity / La dernière   simplicité

Kristin Prevallet
From The Distance between         Here&After

Donna Prinzmetal
Snow White: Taxidermy

Khadijah Queen
Four Suggestions

Ron Riekki
Excerpt from the Novel U.P.

Mary Ruefle
Are We Alone? Is It Safe to           Speak?

Zach Savich
Countryside

David Shields
From Conversations with My         Father: A Meditation on Life and   Death

Charles Simic
Hiding Places
One Wing of the Museum

Shannon Tharp
You Are Only Half of You
The Whole Scene Comes before   Us

Rodrigo Toscano
From Truax Inimical

Theodore Worozbyt
Gnosis
Beans

Dean Young
Song
Rose Prick

Artwork and Cover Photograph by Patricia Cué

Therefore, poetry is a rigorous science, because it is a path of the considering one.

-Allen Grossman,
"Treason" from Issue 1

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