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May 20, 2012 Sea Rose
by H. D.
Rose, harsh rose
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Spotlight Poet
Martín Espada
The poet Gary Soto writes: "Martín Espada has chosen the larger task: to go outside the self-absorbed terrain of most contemporary poets into a landscape where others—bus drivers, revolutionaries, the executed of El Salvador—sit, walk, or lie dead 'without heads.'"

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Before

by Khaled Mattawa
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Spotlight Essay
Jackson Mac Low: The Music of Chance

"Mac Low once said, explaining why audiences sometimes resist his work: 'I suppose the things they expect to get aren't there and other things are.'"

Spotlight Book
Useless Landscape

by D. A. Powell
"This is a book that shows how the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstages, bathhouses, or bars are locations of desire..."
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