In the News

• Congratulations to BR Poetry Editor Timothy Donnelly for winning the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation.

• We are saddened by the passing of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska. Read her BR poem A Photograph of a Crowd.

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Poems

Toxic Assets

Sam Witt

Ambiguous Origins

Jack Boettcher

from Ay

Joan Houlihan—Web only

The State of Utah Is Shaped Like a Glove

Alina Gregorian

Some Novelties of Stagecraft

Matthew Gagnon

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Katy Lederer
Iris Cushing

2011 Poetry Contest Winner

Heather Tone
introduced by judge Tomaž Šalamun

The Bicameral Eyeball

John Ashbery

The Sound of It, Spring

Elizabeth Gramm

Commonplace and Commonplace

Rusty Morrison

The Spot

Joseph P. Wood

Poet’s Sampler

Corina Copp
Introduced by Dorothea Lasky
—Web only

Argument in Optative

Emily Wolahan

Villanelle on a Line from Macbeth

Michael Davis

The Harp and the Machine

Terese Svoboda

A Taxonomy of the Etiquette of Brandos

Eric Kocher

The Man from the Phone Company

J.T. Welsch

After Battle

Karen Lepri

Lottery

Anis Shivani

Soup Is One Form of Salt Water

Heather Christle

Used-To Lives On

C.J. Sage

Poet’s Sampler

Lauren Jensen
Introduced by Erika Meitner

Of Late Fashion

Scott Provence

The Rock in Mid-Lake Disappears & I Who Might

Jeanne Larsen

October

Joseph Fasano

Yes

Anthony Opal

If Hounds

Genevieve Burger-Weiser

The Gift Shop

Cate Peebles

Evening in the Company Of Undecided Birds

Cal Bedient

From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas:Paradox

Brian Blanchfield

Passage

Alex Dimitrov

Song for Sonoma

Tess Taylor

From Love, Imagination and So Tender Beauty

Sarah Sarai

ROTC Kills

John Koethe

America! America!

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

It Was a Rat That Carried Your Heart to the Sea

Kyle McCord

High Church and His Legacy

Timothy Liu

Poet’s Sampler: Ann Marie Thornburg

Introduced by Laura Kasischke

BR Poetry Editor Timothy Donnelly reads his “Chivas Regal” at New York’s KGB Bar.

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Essays

All Together Now

How Description Fosters Connection
Siobhan Phillips

Odd One Out

An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Sawnie Morris—Web only

Poetry Fights Back

How Pashtun poetry challenges the Taliban mindset
Shaheen Buneri

Cold Gem

William Fuller’s Hallucination
Cal Bedient

Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Montgomery

Gone Missing

Geoffrey O’Brien’s “Metropole”
David Gorin

The Escape Artist

John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations
Robert Huddleston

In from the Cold

The friendship of poets-in-exile Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky
Alissa Valles

When That Becomes This

What right-wing politicos and leftist poets have in common.
David Micah Greenberg

Out of Reach

Susan Howe’s That This
Richard Deming

In the Details

Allan Peterson’s As Much As
Stephen Burt

(Most) Everyone’s Invited

Roddy Lumsden’s Identity Parade
Dai George

Floating World

Maureen N. McLane’s Same Life and World Enough
Tess Taylor

Hello Kitty

Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg’s Gurlesque
B.K. Fischer

Synecdoche

Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Megan Levad

Our Poems, Ourselves

Erika Meitner’s Ideal Cities and John Beer’s The Waste Land and Other Poems
Stephen Burt

The Side Of Love

Dan Chiasson’s Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon
Piotr Florczyk

The Raw and the Cooked

Ben Lerner’s Mean Free Path and Lisa Robertson’s R’s Boat
Christopher Schmidt

Catch the Dying Light

Mary Jo Bang’s The Bride of E
Lindsay Turner

Degrees of Sight

Don Paterson’s Rain
Dai George

No Letting Go

Bob Hicok’s Words for Empty and Words for Full
Keith Taylor

Poetry Hot and Cold

Myung Mi Kim’s Penury and Leland Hickman’s Tiresias
Calvin Bedient

Microreviews

November/December 2011
September/October 2011
July/August 2011
May/June 2011