Q: The one good thing Donald Trump has done? A: Incited in some of our best living poets the stirring to craft works of righteous anger, beautiful rancor, and considered middle fingers at the oppressive structures of modern America. Few, if any, do so with such sweeping power, playfully varied tonal shifts, and incisively subversive classicism (scribing exclusively sonnets here is the ultimate troll to the old order) as American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Lake Michigan is the only superior collection I read this year, but is structurally stranger and an altogether different beast).

Question: if, in a parallel world where every Dr./Who was black, you were the complex Time Lord,/When & where would you explore? My answer is,/A brother has to know how to time travel & doctor/Himself when a knee or shoe stalls against his neck