Table of Contents: September 2009

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Cover art: Cathie Bleck, "Transformations," 2009.

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AUTHOR TITLE
Samuel Menashe In Your Face
Tempus fugit
Here Now
Psalm
Dan Beachy-Quick Anniversary
Museums
Belle Randall Cast Off
“Four Quartets” Revisited
Don Paterson Why do you stay up so late?
The Lie
Liz Waldner Semblance: Screens
Atsuro Riley O
Lucia Perillo The Second Slaughter
Kelle Groom Swerve
Katia Kapovich To the Quarry and Back
David Harsent Abstracts
Malachi Black Drifting at Midday
Insomnia & So On
Desirée Alvarez The Order In Which Things Are Broken
Sandra McPherson Formulary
Colin Cheney Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
Spencer Reece At Thomas Merton’s Grave
THE VIEW FROM HERE
Mary Schmich Poetry, Daily
Brenda Starr makes way for Rumi, Neruda, and Merwin.
Dennis Jacobs Aye Birds Tune
A federal judge considers poetry from the bench.
Douglas Wolk The Chisel
How poetry can break open pop criticism.
Fernando Perez Para Rumbiar
Robert Creeley in the outfield.
Lin Hixson And A Look And On
Poetry and Performance.
William T. Vollmann Show Me a Howe
COMMENT
Michael Hofmann So Goddamn Glamorous
Frederick Seidel is a meat-slicing machine.
Ange Mlinko As If Nature Talked Back To Me
A Notebook.
Michael Robbins Live All You Can
On Susan Wheeler, Jack Gilbert, and J.D. McClatchy.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Etienne Ndayishimiye Letter to the Editor
David Shook, M.D. Letter to the Editor
Henry Gould Letter to the Editor
Ange Mlinko Letter to the Editor
Michael Marcinkowski Letter to the Editor
Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau Responds
Ina Loewenberg Letter to the Editor
Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh Responds
Alan Cohen Letter to the Editor
Michael Hudson Letter to the Editor
C. K. Williams C.K. Williams Responds