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What excites me most about poetry right now is the fact that the mainstream has come to encompass so many kinds of poets, that many voices are now being heard loudly and broadly thanks to an engaged and expanding community of publishers and of younger and older poetry fans who pass poems around the Internet like the latest news. I want the preview, going forward, to include books that might fall outside of my particular sensibility. And so I have invited some friends and colleagues to help me. This year's poetry preview features four poet-critics in addition to myself: Ana Božičević, Ken C...

/ The title of Kearney's new collection could mean three things: a performance (show), an affirmation (sure, spoken in Black vernacular), and to appear (to show up). The book is raucous theater, a party whose rhythms contain a meditation on what it means to have a body in public space. SHO explores Black masculinity, police killings, and Christianity, often interrogating race through the metonymy of skin. If we show our race, our seemingly most fateful attribute, on our skin, does that mean skin is actually one's interior? This is just one of the book's Zen koans, to use Kearney's characteri...

bellhaven neighborhood. >> it is a good time now for in area. the police are coming in all around, all the time. >> reporter: more than 900 agents met before dawn yesterday to execute the warrant after a two-year investigation, involving wire taps and undercover drug purchases. the sweep resulted in 34 arrests, most in east el paso and the park, including the men and women between the ages of 19 and 55. 11 firearms were taken, along with 1,100,000 in cash and drugs. >> the focus of the investigation was an associated group of individuals who supplied cocaine and meth to multiple gang...