THE POLITICAL ISSUE

Heather McHugh dreams of a Texas songbird
Robert Pinsky visits the National Portrait Gallery
Jane Hirshfield considers Augusto Pinochet
Kevin Young gets the Hang Dog Blues
Mary Jo Salter says “My pen is angled too”
Plus: Stephen Dunn, James …

Stanley Plumly on poets & e-mail: “Need speediness is the enemy of style”
Letters from Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale
 Love Manual by Eva Heisler
David Mason channels Charles Bukowski
Rachel Hadas waits for a train
Plus: New poems by Oliver Rice, Joanna …

The Music Issue
Featuring Poetry by
Eliza Griswold
Lea Banks
Supritha Rajan
Norman Dubie
Christian Wiman
Craig Arnold

Yves Bonnefoy watches lightning
Meghan O’Rourke on grief in 1972
Phillis Levin finds an acorn and puts “on a hat like that”
Charles Wright: “The mind’s the affliction”
Walk the Line screenwriter Gill Dennis listens to Johnny Cash & …

C.K. Williams reads the sports page
Robert Bly visits Chaco Canyon
Marilyn Hacker faces disease
Richard Kenney interviews a muse
Jock Sturges discusses poetry and photography
Plus: Talvikki Ansel, Peter Campion, Henri Cole, Debora Greger, Campbell McGrath, Stanley Plumly, Nance …