Note from a Prodigal Son III
By Randall HortonThe gavel
The splintered body
The red-neck guards
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Randall HortonThe gavel
The splintered body
The red-neck guards
By Lita HooperFrederick Lake has been to prison
finished his time
convicted in 1989
By Ocean VuongMy grandmother kisses
as if bombs are bursting in the backyard,
where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes
By Melisa Cahnmann-TaylorBionic Feeding Woman
whips breasts out, sprays
privacy netting over him
By Arthur SzeThe bow of a Muckleshoot canoe, blessed
with eagle feather and sprig of yellow cedar,
is launched into a bay.