Jaswinder Bolina explores life in an America that alienates, yet whose benefits still touch your life in The 44th of July; Lenny DellaRocca’s The Festival of Dangerous Ideas conjures a nightmare world set in in the not-too distant-future. Michael Hettich’s poems bring awareness to the fraught and fragile natural world in To Start an Orchard, y Elizabeth Jacobson observes nature’s strange and dazzling discoveries in Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air.