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… chair, having never told a living soul about her boy who died as she, for the first time, holds him. 2 Look, … before he’d ride full-price to heaven. 9 How does the boy become the man lolling on a gurney? How could the young nurse … 10 Because we are so far away the zippered strands of DNA compose themselves like stalks in a far cornfield, or like …

… Blanco had spent the previous year working on several commissioned occasional poems and had been exploring the … the poem to cooperate, to syncopate with the photo while also standing on its own. How to lock into the subject of … a single line. Flirting with a title. “I can’t fully commit to a poem until that warm-up is done—what I like to …

… Traffic Jam The words come slowly, arrive slowly, changed by travel; some are … softened and faded and what it touches it softens and fades also. End of a season. The trimmings for the festival were … to point and stare. Pretend you don’t notice are words that come easily: our mothers used to hiss them into our ears, …

… Western Europe out of a slump by increasing imports (the “locomotive”)—then urged to salvage the inefficient industries … Industry (MITI) is providing research and development subsidies to the major computer manufacturers (Fujitsu, Hitachi, … The bulk of the military budget is spent in supporting the 260,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, but there are …

… distressing and spectacular developments in the textile communities of North Carolina, especially Gastonia and … The study of Madame de Maintenon is one of a series of studies of women that Gamaliel Bradford has been making. “Eve … of Rochester is author of “The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-26.” Herbert Heaton is professor of history in the …