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Harriet Monroe and The Columbian Ode

Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle, by the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, remains a tender but fiery call for revolution. 

In Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, the poet Roger Reeves delivers an unruly examination of race, community, and history.  

In The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, Nicole Sealey transforms a Department of Justice report into a transcendent poetic intervention.

In Information Desk, Robyn Schiff recalls the beauty, boredom, and absurdities of working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

Two new genre-bending books by Terrance Hayes find freedom in individuality.

In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz explores immigration in personal and linguistically patterned lyrics.

The young Polish-language poet Zuzanna Ginczanka was killed in the Holocaust. Two new translations offer different renditions of her startling work. 

With Gravity and Center, Henri Cole finds a home in the sonnet’s mix of freedom and constraint.  

Megan Fernandes’s I Do Everything I’m Told is a formally promiscuous enactment of distance and desire.