Third Party Poetry: A monody for his poet friend, Janine Pommy Vega, by Valery Oisteanu.

Third Party Poetry: John J. Trause’s organic jaculation on the advantages of sleeping with a photographer.

Third Party Poetry: Daniel Tobin’s “Heaven,” from the so-themed Belated Heavens (Four Way Books), 2010.

Exciting new work by littérateurs not St.-L.

Third Party Poetry: Zenpoetmaster Jeffrey Cyphers Wright’s subversive Ode to Joy. Merci, mon maître.

Third Party Poetry: Jason Price Everett hat trick.