...Jazzy Danziger © 2011 Jazzy Danziger 2011 Jazzy Danziger Cafeteria “We want peace —​there is something that we are occupied with: growing wheat . . .” —​Soviet president Yuri Andropov, April 1983...

...Jazzy Danziger © 2011 Jazzy Danziger 2011 Jazzy Danziger The Discarded A shutter held open long enough can capture most things. Widened towards light, waiting for enough of it, waiting to close. A girl and a boy in a Jeep enter a cornfield in the dark...

... of bad ladders and worse luck, the hunger strike on the port of Danzig, desire like the hard sharp beak of a bird in mid-flight. You were born better than this you tell yourself, married to a farmer who knew nothing but the poor curse of soil until he wandered to city, homeless and jobless...

..., Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, and Ploughshares. Jazzy Danziger’s first collection, Darkroom, is the winner of the Brit­ tingham Prize in Poetry of the University of Wisconsin Press and will be published in early 2012. She is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at the University...