Ted Kooser

Bus Stop

Just Now

Just Now

A Few Attractive Strangers (on Invisible Mirror by Michael Cadnum; A Weather of Surprises by Harry Humes; The Red Room by Geraldine Connolly; And As for Darkness by Michael Burns; & The Barn in the Air by Michael Waters)

A Traveler among Mockingbirds (on To Remain by Edward Kleinschmidt; A Family Album by Lewis Turco; The Sum Complexities of the Humble Field by Viola Weinberg; The Village Painters by David Chorlton; & Small Elegies by David Mason)d

Is It My Turn to Tell One Yet? (on Stunts by Carole Simmons Oles; Antonio & Clara by David Giannini; Drawing Water by F. Bjórnson Stock; Memories of Light by Robin Greene; & Tornadoes by Robert Hedin)

Five Chapbooks Out of Many (on Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly; Kyrie for One Voice by Margaret Holley; Reflections of a White Bear by Carolyn E. Campbell; Love for Other Things; New and Selected Poems by Tom Hennen; & Jewel Weed by Diane Swan)

Avoiding the Avid Copiers: Six Recent Chapbooks (on Rooms by the Sea by Mary Ann Samyn; News of Loss by Robert DeMott; The Country’s Way with Rain by Margot Fortunato Galt; The Family Way by Richard Frost; Shorelines by Peter Makuck; and Ribbon Around a Bomb by Lucinda Grey)

Nine Recent Chapbooks: A Few Slips of Paper in the Pages (on Wild Peavines by Robert Morgan; Gristle by R. T. Smith; The Keepers of Light by Michele Wolf; Rude Noises by Martha Meek; Holding Ground by Becky Gould Gibson; In Defense of Stones by Janet MacFadyen; The Wave He Caught by Rick Noguchi; Millrat by Michael Casey; and The Tan Chanteuse by Carol Boston Weatherford)

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