A Terrible Beauty: The Politics in Poetry (on Writing and Being by Nadine Gordimer; The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché; A Wedding in Hell by Charles Simic; Bad Alchemy by Dionisio D. Martínez; That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini; The Prince of the Quotidian by Paul Muldoon; and The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon)
Exclusionary Principles (on The Point by Charles D’Ambrosio; Blue Spruce by David Long; Kneeling on Rice by Elizabeth Denton; and Open Secrets by Alice Munro)