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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume VIII, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2006-2007
 


Cover art: Dean Porter (b. 1939)
Santuario de Chimayo, 1998
  Oil on canvas

Brauer Museum of Art, 98:08

 

FEATURED POET:

MARK CONWAY
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Mark Conway

 "Having Gone to the Ends of the Earth"

Frannie Lindsay

 "Walking an Old Woman into the Sea"
 

Jared Carter

 "Prophet Township"


Beth Simon

 "Taste Is"


Jeff Knorr

"Hands"
 

Sarah Brownsberger

 "A Golden Plover"
 

E.G. Burrows

"The Beach at Moon's Resort" 


Helen Ruggieri

 "After The Hands by Paul Delvaux: A Family Portrait"
 

Richard O'Connell

"Voladores"
 

Heidi Czerwiec

 "Reverse Railroad"
 
"Victorian Daguerreotype Series (Late 19th Century)"


Thomas Reynolds

 "Klamanth Jazz Festival"
 

Elizabeth Kirschner

"The Creamy Gardenia"
 

Jason Huskey

"34-Counter"


Jeanine DeRusha

"Robert Segee's Confession"
 

Nick Bruno

"Malinconia"
 

Carol Hamilton

"Tourists"
 

Scott Welvaert

"Pushing a Dodge Charger into a Gas Station" 

 
Jordan Sanderson

  "Oral Hygiene"


Rane Arroyo

  "Surviving Utah"


Taylor Graham  

"Listening for Answers"

J.D. Schraffenberger
 
"Kentucky News Butch"

Lynn Strongin
  
"Ghostly"


ESSAYS


Laura Ebberson

"Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic Voice: Reconciling Influences"


Claire Keyes

"Marianne Boruch and the Art of Surprise"


REVIEWS
 

D.A. Jeremy Telman

"Robert W. Crawford: Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man"

 

Barbara Crooker

"Judith Montgomery: Red Jess"
 

Roger Sedarat

"Vivian Shipley: Hardboot: Poems New and Old"


Mike White

"Lance Larsen: In All Their Animal Brilliance"


Lynn Strongin

"Mark Conway: Any Holy City"


Edward Byrne

"Everything We Cannot See: Claudia Emerson's Late Wife"
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Santuaria de Chimayo"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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