In one of the prayer-poems compiled in Matt Mauch's Prayer Book, the speaker prays to a rock without coming across as phony. Though essentially secular, there is, in these poems, a gut-level understanding of an individual's turn toward that which is instinctually divine-a rejection of dogma and rules in an attempt to take back something essential: the feeling (rather than the idea) of prayer as hope, prayer as song, prayer as poem. Among the laundromats, VFWs, parking lots, and backyard cookouts-many of the poems occurring in places where urban and natural landscapes meet-are often-humorous...

Poems, reviews, interviews, essays, and other prose on poetry by Kris Bigalk Tim Nolan Cullen Bailey Burns David Mura Heid E. Erdrich Jim Redmond Kyle Adamson Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen Francine Sterle William Waltz Sarah Fox MC Hyland John Medeiros Patrick Hicks Matt Ryan Caitlin Bailey Thompson Christopher Title Scott Vetsch Courtney Algeo H.C. Wiederholt Paige Reihl Sean Hill Lynette Reini-Grandell Sun Yung Shin Anna George Meek Paula Cisewski Sharon Chmielarz Jim Coppoc Stacia M. Fleegal Merle Depasquale Paul D. Dickinson Joyce Sutphen Matt Rasmussen Gretchen Marquette Steve Healey G.E. Patterson...

POEMS AND OTHER PROSE ON POETRY BY Kyle McCord Jenny Yang Cropp Glenn Shaheen Matthew Guenette Jim Coppoc Ian Beattie Matt Ryan MC Hyland Rebecca Lehmann Bruce Covey John Colburn Morgan Grace Willow Betsy Brown Deborah Keenan Gary Dop John Medeiros Richard Robbins Jeff Skemp Traci Brimhall Paula Cisewski Carrie Lorig Paige Reihl Luke Pingel Haley Lasche Kara Candito Erik Tschekunow Cary Waterman Lee Ann Roripaugh Kris Bigalk Heid Erdrich Leslie Adrienne Miller Adrianne Mathiowetz Ryan Collins Lewis Mundt Carol Connolly Juliet Patterson Seth Berg Feng Sun Chen Ryan Vine Kelly Everding Lightsey...