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III: (Hermes/Mercury’s) (Re/) Interpretation
I: A (Fortuitous) Omen
II: A (Shaman’s) Prophecy
Passing by an Old Fortress
Passing by an Old Fortress
Ambulando Solvitur
Ambulando Solvitur
Foreign Affairs
My Husband’s Father
Apollo Considers the Humans
Josef Čapek
Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival
Ulcerations
Imperium: A Bedtime Story
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Heart of Daggers
Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh
Nadia
I, This Body
Firing Squad
As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper
The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body
For His Wife
Watch the Lame Beast Turn
Review by Colin Bailes | “Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky
“23rd Annual Levis Reading Prize: a reading by prize winner Ilya Kaminsky”
Eleanor Remembers Her Soldier
Collection & Identification
A Small Talk
1918 Suite Coda: That Night Another Change
from The House of Adventure
Leviathan: A Charnel Ship
“Over the Canteen in France” from Two Colored Women in the AEF by Addie W. Hunton & Kathryn M. Johnson
In Dreams, My Ancestors
The Letter
Not Before but After Us
Pain Is Never Done
Between the Trees
Old Spice & Cordite
Diorama (the young solider returning to duty)
A Soviet Paining by Nikolai Solomin ‘She Did Not Wait’
1918 Suite “Enough of Us Still and Brave Enough” 1918 Suite
from ‘A Scavenger in France: Being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917–1919’
The Codfish
1918 Suite “What Was Not His to Keep”
1918 Suite | from “Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad” by Ethel Anderson
1918 Suite | from One of Ours by Willa Cather
Delta, Echo, Alpha, Romeo
Operations Suite
Poem in Which My Husband Deploys and Our Baby and I Move Back In with My Parents
Mobilization, 1914
Trans-Trans-Human Teiresias Urges—Having
Ghost Confederacy
All day, one room: me, and the cherubim . . .
Dear Mat, For the red scarf I'm much obliged . . .
Dear Mattie, You're sweet to write to me every day . . .
from Kyrie
Once the world had had its fill of war . . .
When does a childhood end? Mothers . . .
Setting Truth to Music
Ellen Bryant Voigt
“Everywhere in the Kingdom” 1918 Suite
A Reading from Kyrie
"Gerzat: Chapter XII—The Spanish Influenza"
Bois Gravés: An Artist’s Response to Loss
[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Serhiy Zhadan
1917 Suite | “Suffrage and Sedition”
Director’s Commentary
Kandahar to Canada
Kandahar to Canada
The Play as Transition
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: I
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: II
That Century
Warn the Young Ones
Drone
Force Visibility
Dmitri In The Year Of The October Revolution, 1917
Review | Look, by Solmaz Sharif
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
20th Annual Levis Reading Prize
A Reading by Solmaz Sharif
A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
The Shock of War & All Those Bodies Effed [Dead
from The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
“Introduction to Remember” a one-act play by Liz Appel
Remember
We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
Translation Theory
from Think of Lampedusa 1
Songe à Lampedusa
Charis
November 11
Epistle
Slides of Hiroshima
The Little Lion, Artistic Director’s Notes by Tom Width
The Little Lion, Cast and Crew
The Little Lion, Introduction
The Little Lion, Act One
The Little Lion, Act Two
The Little Lion, Novelist’s Notes by Nancy Wright Beasley
Vernissage
Allegiance
Kuwento ng Pag-Ibig
Love Story
The Missouri Compromise
The Other City
Translated from the Bosnian
A Cocoon That Would Break
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space between the Trees Instead of the Trees Themselves Might Well Be Employed
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing
When You Get Out of Prison
The First Necessary Heartbreak
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping Rope
Review | Seam, by Tarfia Faizullah
Dan O’Brien, Visitations Introduction
Librettist’s Notes
The War Reporter
“The War Reporter Performance Video”
Blue Boy
Heart
Circle in the Grass
Dream of the Morning Before It Split Open
Hypothesis: An Interview
Negative Peeled Back from a Cardboard Album
Spacemen Specimen
KM4
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
The Chickasaw Trees
Review | No One Is Here Except All of Us, by Ramona Ausubel
“A Conversation with Kevin Powers”
Dream Cargo
Snow Down in Hong Kong
The Necessary Angel
Ghost Confederacy
Alphabet of Barbed Wire
New Civilian
Soon, We Will Give In
Limb Factory
Regiment, 1941
The Burn Pit Detail at FOB Cobra
Ways of Looking at an IED
Site 947: A Situation Report
The Cavalry
Confessions for the Guerrilla Fighter Upstairs
The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 1)
Amputation Transcript, a Redaction
Waiting with the Donkey
Lions Are Fed Donkeys in Baghdad Zoo: YouTube
How to Make a Toilet-Paper-Roll Blowgun: Alternatives to Akhmatova in Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet, and Tomas Tranströmer
Levis Remembered Reading Loop, Blackbird
Two Cities, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
The Hat Called Sky:
At the Tomb of Naiads
Disarmed
Diamonds in the Rough
Två Städer
Mother of Invention
from The Fallen | Kalinovik
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 11
Joshua Fought
Pesem talca
Hostage's Poem, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren
Ochre ix
Ochre x
Ochre xi
Ochre xii
Ochre xiv
Ochre xx
Ochre xxv
from The Fallen | Rooftops
Mutiny
What’s Buried in the Ground
The Electrician’s Mate, 1954
Bringing in the May, 1941
Boys Whistling like Canaries by Jorn Ake
Review of Sight Map by Brian Teare
An excerpt from Devil’s Dream
Old Country
A Soul Addresses Her Beloved in the Non-Green Zone
Beirut
Mined Muzzle Velocity
Fiddle-dee-dee
“I”
“I”
A Conversation with Travis Holland
Domestic Economics
March 19, 2003
Two selections from A Thousand Penelopes
Where the Navy Sends You
New Old-Girl
Archimedes under Myronas
Vietnam
Mr. Brown Takes His Students to the Museum
Edward Teller's Leg
Response to, "Why Don't You Write about Something Happy?"
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part Two
The Parade
Behind the Old Soldiers’ Hospital
Fragment 12 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragment 26 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Four selections from “There Are No Names for Red,” Chris Abani
Kabul Revisited, from The War Zone is My Bed
Introduction, Kabul from The War Zone is My Bed,Yasime Rana
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Scratchings, Anne Germanacos
The Life of the Party
An Uncertain Sky Makes Her Wary of Stillness
General Sweeney
Granite City
Funeral Direction
Afterword
Canto
Courage
Ars Poetica
The Melancholy Tailor
Prisoner of War Camp, Pine Grove Furnace
Red Guitar No. 2: Larkin’s Eggs
Red Guitar No. 2: Larkin's Eggs
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
From The Machine Gunner’s Letters
Kismet
Selektion: The Painted Girl
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
Sarajevo, from The War Zone Is My Bed
The Boomers Take the Field
Outside the Horse
Review | White Stucco Black Wing, by Karen Kevorkian
Sarah Bednarek | Guerrilla Palms
Alzheimer's
On Tallasseehatchee Creek
Images from the Kingdom of Things
The Book of Crying Kanglings
What the Dead Deserved
Self-Portrait in the New World Order
May 30
Just Say Goodbye to Mother
Impermanence
Grief Bird
Our Memory, the Shining Leaves (Waterford Fair Civil War Reenactment)
The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610
Bed of Nails
Breakfasts with Joachim
Wound, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
The Perils of Censorship, R. T. Smith