Frequent NER contributor Laura Kasischke’s book Space, In Chains (Copper Canyon Press) has been named a Notable Book of 2011 by The New York Times.

Three poems by Kasischke published in NER are available online:

“Miss Congeniality” (26.4), “Riddle” (29.2), and “They Say” (30.2).

From “They Say”:

one-twelfth of our lives is wasted
standing in a line.

The sacred path of that.