Book Reviews

Poetry Insights

From the Editors

house as a cemetery

— by John Compton

Seeing Things

— by Marjorie Maddox

The Girl with the Black Lipstick

— by Mary Biddinger

Contributing Critics

A Film In Which I Play Everyone

— by Mary Jo Bang

Couplets

— by Maggie Millner

soiled with earth, drunk on air

— by Sibila Petlevski

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