A Review of Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher In the series preface to Jessica Poli’s “Red Ocher,” Patricia Smith writes, “Good poetry should not leave you the same as when you came to it.”  By that de...

There are 14 men in the lunchroom. Some are sitting in chairs, some standing, some prowling around the edges of the room. They are men who have grown used to being on a schedule, and this is snack …