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Issue 24 features work from Catherine Pierce, Norma Liliana Valdez, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Allison A. Defreese, Sharon Dolin, Joe Kroll, and more.

As Gertrude Stein might have put it, a cento is a collage is a mix tape is a video montage.This hypothetical description is fitting in a number of ways. Although the cento form is ancient—in existence since at least the days of Virgil and Homer—it was also used to striking effect in the Modern era: consider, for example, T. S. EliotÆs The Waste Land and Ezra PoundÆs Cantos.More recent centos include John AshberyÆs \u201cThe Dong with the Luminous Nose,\u201d Peter GizziÆs \u201cOde: Salute to The New York School 1950-1970\u201d (a libretto), Connie HersheyÆs \u201cEcstatic Permutations,\u201d and the \u201cSplit This Rock Poetry Festival—Cento, March 23, 2008\u201d (a collaborative protest poem delivered in front of the White House).The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford and with an introduction by David Lehman, features an extensive sampling of centos, collage poems, and patchwork poems written by Nicole Andonov, Lorna Blake, Alex Cigale, Allan Douglass Coleman, Philip Dacey, Sharon Dolin, Annie Finch, Jack Foley, Kate Gale, Dana Gioia, Sam Gwynn, H. L. Hix, David Lehman, Eric Nelson, Catherine Tufariello, and many others.

From Chapter 1November 17, 1989Dear Cardinal Lustiger, Your Eminence:My name is Daniella Stonebrook Blue. I am-or was-by profession anastronomer. We are strangers to each other. Your name was given to me by awoman on a bus as we were traveling across New Mexico. Because of herinsistence, I am writing to you about this dark period of my life. I need to speakto you about the matter of light.Light is the alphabet of God. I knew this when I was born and then I forgot.This is the first time I have understood it as an adult woman. Even as I preparedto write these words, I didn¿t know what they implied until they appeared onthe page.

Matriot (mä ¿ tri ¿ at) noun 1. One who loves his or her country. 2. One who loves and protects the people of his or her country. 3. One who perceives national defense as health, education, and shelter for all people in his or her country, and the world.(Orig. FPA, 1991)

Give, Eat, and Live is a selection of poems translated from the 12th century Tamil poet Avvaiyar, arguably one of the most important female poets in Tamil¿s two-thousand-and-five-hundred years of literary history, and certainly one of the best known, of any gender. Although people across the state of Tamil Nadu know many of her works by heart, she has received little attention outside India, owing largely to the lack of decent translations. The one comprehensive work in English, Avvaiyar, a great Tamil poetess, by C. Rajagopalachari (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1971), has long since been out of print and renders Avvaiyar¿s poems in accurate but wooden translations. This book, by contrast, seeks to render her finest songs in a supple and poetically charged English that allows both her intellect and poetry to shine.

High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town.

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a short fiction debut about girls and women caught between their desires, others’ expectations, and unexpected disaster, and how they maneuver with humor and rage into wilder, surviving selves.

Davies¿ poems track and map the characteristics of his relationships¿with the environment, people he meets, loved ones, animals, work, childhood, fantasy, and, of course, sheds.This is a collection mingling wry humour with sharp focus that will leave you wondering and questioning what really matters.

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: ¿Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.¿ Bach¿s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds ¿Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.¿ And his afterlife: ¿When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won¿t need / an attack dog, thankyou. I married one.¿

Like a photograph seared in the mind, Run Away to the Yard has lasting power, offering its readers the chance to alter assumed perceptions of culture¿and of self.

Wooichin J-son was born and raised in Singapore. He completed his BA at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MA at the California Sate Univeristy, Northridge. He now lives in Lakewood, California, and teaches writing.

The reader journeys through these poems, circa 1787 to 2013, and emerges realizing that everything is connected¿the ways we live, lie, love, and die¿the ways we all get over.

Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, as chosen by Lorna Dee Cervantez, Ruth Irupé Sanabriäs second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land, examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile.