Vetiver

Joël Des Rosiers

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

Vetiver, a grass originally from the Indies, has overgrown the island of Haiti. The plant in exile becomes a symbol for the emigré in this English translation of Des Rosiers' prize-winning poetry. >>

Virga

Jennifer Houle

Like rain held in abeyance, these poems were waiting for their time, and gathered together create a compelling, distinctly feminine and feminist meditation on maturing womanhood. >>

Volta

Susan Gillis

In Volta, Susan Gillis explores the "turn," facing new directions, considering new angles and changing from one form to another. She also turns fifteen original 16th century sonnets into fifteen new free verse poems by trying to crack them open at their "turn." >>

What You Can’t Have

Michael V. Smith

From children who yearn for a knowledge and experience elusive to them, to adolescents who struggle with hidden desires, to adults unprepared for the world built around them, Michael V. Smith lends a quiet grace to his subjects' struggles to satisfy their needs. >>

Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem

Emily Izsak

Sex—like travel and serial poetry—hurtles forward in a non-narrative fashion. >>