The Used World
Poetry
from Omeros, Book III: Achille in Africa, IV–XI
Poetry by Derek Walcott
Dust
Poetry by Allen Grossman
Afterwords
Poetry by Tom Sleigh
February 29, 1988
Poetry by William Corbett
The Road Out
Poetry by David Rivard
Arrival Song
Poetry by David Rivard
Jimmy Hoffa’s Odyssey
Poetry by Ai
Final Testament
Poetry by Forrest Gander
Land Surveyor
Poetry by Forrest Gander
Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877
Poetry by Martín Espada
Nando Meets Papo
Poetry by Martín Espada
Refugees in the Garden
Poetry by Sharon Dunn
The World’s Fair Cities
Poetry by Donald Revell
Minotaur Grief
Poetry by Clayton Eshleman
Twomb
Poetry by Clayton Eshleman
The Refugee
Poetry by Vijay Seshadri
Beginner
Poetry by Vijay Seshadri
I Pray for No More Reagans
Poetry by Bruce Smith
Eve of Geneva
Poetry by Bruce Smith
Northwest Passage
Poetry by Sophie Cabot Black
Doubles
Poetry by Robert Polito
Kimble Fugit
Poetry by Jeffrey Gustavson
Letter in My Desk
Poetry by David Gewanter
from Facts of Life: Life Raft, What Does She See, What’s So Funny, “The Unbelievable”
Poetry by Mark Rudman
Whiskey
Poetry by Fred Marchant
Agganis
Poetry by George Kalogeris
Salt
Poetry by Diana Der-Hovanessian
The Winds of Saburtalo
Poetry by Serhiy Paradjanov • Translated from the Ukrainian by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych
American Merchandise
Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
“I Can Stand There in the Corner . . .”
Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
Don’t Bare Your Soul!
Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates
Mexico
Poetry by James Reiss
A Late Visit to Robert Graves
Poetry by Edwin Honig
The Call CM
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
The Crossroads
Poetry by Carol Moldaw
The Broken Gull
Poetry by Stephen McLeod
A Portrait of the Master
Poetry by Louis Jenkins
Two Faces
Poetry by Michael Burkard
Separation
Poetry by Amanda Powell
Absences
Poetry by Robert McNamara
What Anyone Really Wanted
Poetry by Robert McNamara
White Night
Poetry by Ruth Feldman
Expression
Poetry by Rachel Hadas
Lies
Poetry by Kenneth Rosen
Taking Out the Trash
Poetry by John Pijewsky
Gulag
Poetry by Teresa Cader
Of Hell
Poetry by Brian Swann
Holdfast
Poetry by Nadya Aisenberg
Noah
Poetry by Barbara Mann
Among Friends
Poetry by Miriam Sagan
Harvard Square Postcard
Poetry by Jennifer Rose
What to Do
Poetry by Mark Halliday
from Fight Scene: Fight Scene Beginning; Fight Scene, Part II; Fight Scene: Final Frames
Poetry by Tino Villanueva
Fiction
The Wizard
Fiction by C. S. Godshalk
Beyond the Pale
Fiction by Mikhail Iossel
In the Kingdom of the Wise
Fiction by M. T. Sharif
The Other Side
Fiction by Corinne Demas
from Chekhov Was a Doctor: Abraham and Isaac, Isaac the Truant
Fiction by Jack Pulaski
Essays
The Poet in the Faubourg “Jewish”
Essay by Robert Pinsky
The Garden and the Abyss: Columbus’ Journal and Three Caribbean Writers
Essay by Robert Bensen
Latin American Writing: Language and Spices, Resistance and Redemption
Essay by Alan West