Cover Image:  Three Shells (Photo by Jason Roush, 2011)	“Jason Roush has a questing intelligence that revels in the transformative power of physical and mental travel, the truths he finds whilst ‘spiraling gently closer to the labyrinth’s / hidden center.’  His language has the dazzling clarity of water, and its fluid movements create myriad, exhilarating surprises.  Reality trembles and is remolded in these poignant pieces, which find their speakers most at home in the night sky, beside churning oceans or vast tectonic shifts.  Urgent and intimate, Dispossession energizes the reader, allowing them to inhabit possibilities where ‘the earth’s paths will be more alive.’” —John McCullough, author of The Frost Fairs
Jason Roush teaches writing, literature, and cultural studies at Emerson College and New England Institute of Art. His poems, criticism, and other writings have appeared in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Bay Windows, Breakwater Review, Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, Come Hear, Expression Magazine, Fifth Wednesday, The Fossil Record, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, The James White Review, Lambda Book Report, Out Magazine, Provincetown Magazine, RFD (Radical Faerie Digest), 236, Verse Daily, and the anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2. He is the author of three previous books of poetry, After Hours (2005), Breezeway (2007), and Crosstown (2009). He can be reached via e-mail at: ProfRoush@aol.com       (Web text and images protected under copyright, 2012)	(Author Photo by Paul Rivenberg, 2012)