- Todd Boss with “It Is Enough to Enter” in Poetry.
- Natasha Trethewey goes fishing in the New England Review. Her most recent collection is the highly recommended Native Guard
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- Jynne Dilling Martin throws the first fish back (Ploughshares).
- Ricardo Pau-Llosa in the Kenyon Review, “Nicodemus Man.“
- Sensing a nautical theme this week – Sarah Cohen as “Scylla and Charybdis” (Threepenny Review).
- In New American Writing, a longer poem by Mahmoud Darwish, “Counterpoint, for Edward Said.” Trans., Fady Joudah. It is difficult to read this poem and not be reminded of Adonis’ “Grave for New York.”
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