Jaswinder Bolina explores life in an America that alienates, yet whose benefits still touch your life in The 44th of July; Lenny DellaRocca’pa 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, ak Elizabeth Jacobson observes nature’s strange and dazzling discoveries in Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air.