Table of Contents: January 2009

Cover art: Alvaro Barrios, "Five Readymades (Belle Haleine, Eau de Violette)," 2008. (Courtesy of Nohra Haime Gallery)

	AUTHOR	TITLE
	C. K. Williams	Wait Zebra I Hate
	Kim Addonizio	The First Line is the Deepest
	Peter Munro	Names Requiem
	Roddy Lumsden	Hard Work Season of Quite
	J. T. Barbarese	Earth Science
	Scott Cairns	Eremite Idiot Psalms
	Dan Stryk	Stray Dogs in Fall
	Allen Edwin Butt	Feather in Bas-Relief La Petite Vie
	W. S. Di Piero	Two Girls
	Wendy Videlock	The Owl A Word on Verbs Change
	Anne Winters	Works on Paper
	Fiona Sampson	Communion
	Langston Hughes	You and your whole race. I look at the world Remember

		COMMENT
	Arnold Rampersad	On Newly Discovered Langston Hughes Poems Facing racism every day with the Great Depression looming, Hughes wrote these political poems on the inside covers of a book.
	Clive James	An Almost Perfect Break-up Poem A critic's second reading of a poem by Stephen Edgar proves that a first reading is the best-kept secret of criticism.
	Daisy Fried	Who Needs to Hear A Quagga’s Voice? Two poets look past their bewilderment in a damaged world.
	Fiona Sampson	Bounce and Rebound The whip-crack language and zig-zag reality of a young poet from Belarus.
	Michael Hofmann	The Linebacker and the Dervish Lowell stormed the literary world; while Bishop orbited its periphery. On closely reading their collected letters, a poet and critic uncovers a new way to read their mythologized friendship.