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Smile by Sarah RuhlWith a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bells palsy patients experience a full recoverylike Ruhls own mother. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior

and cityscape

communicates the snobbishness

and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s eyes and through their own

Justice is a prevailing force

This work seeks to account for a life in the context of the myths

which was named one of 2014’s ten best books of poetry by Poets & Writers and hailed as a “groundbreaking first book that stands to influence its author’s generation” by Boston Review

"I experience much boredom these days with the world and its predictable cruelties or poetry and its predictable safeties

being a playwright and working mom to three small children

reverie and urgent attention—all come together in our search for coherence and authentic self-expression

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado bends poems through bilingual lyrics that present spartan observation as evidence for its exacting verdict

Anselm Berrigan

and sequined

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