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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume VIII, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2007
 


Cover art: Hazel Hannel (1895-2002)
Still Life, 1946
  Watercolor on paper

Brauer Museum of Art, 2002.21.006

 

FEATURED POET:

DIANE LOCKWARD
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Diane Lockward

 "Temptation by Water"

Constance Vogel

 "At the Pool in the YWCA"

Lee Rossi

 "Snake Skin"

Jen Karetnick

 "Millipedes in the Wet Season"

Michelle Bitting

"The Exterminator's Wife"
 

Jon Ballard

 "The Peach Orchard"
 

Anne Haines

"Swallowed" 


Lynn Wagner

 "Woman Blowing Soap Bubbles"
 

Clifford Paul Fetters

"A Walk in an Open Gallery"
 

Valerie Wohlfeld

 "Heart: Specimen"


Daniel Donaghy

 "Snapshot: Four Turkeys at the Feeders"
 

Martha Silano

"No Refunds, No Exchanges"
 

Chris Bullard

"Narcissus"

Judith Montgomery

"Death Slips Up at Ristorante Monte Carlo"
 
"Vacation"


Dwayne Thorpe

"Freeze Frame"
 

Jessica de Koninck

"The Funhouse"
 

Paul Hostovsky

"Bagpiper Among the Geese" 

 
Rosemary Winslow

  "Kingdom of Cloth, Three Women, A Naked Boy"

Kevin Rabas

  "Reseed"
 
  Sara Lamers  

"In My Religion"

Michael Diebert
 
"Razorback Gift Shop"

Rita Signorelli-Pappas
  
"Parmigianino Thinking"


George Eklund
 
"Homage to Jim"

Robert Lietz
 
"Adapting the Cuisine"



INTERVIEW


Sondra Gash

"Sondra Gash Interviews Diane Lockward"



ESSAY


Joseph Powell

"On the Newer Bees in Darwin's Garden"



REVIEWS
 

Judith Montgomery

"Diane Lockward: What Feeds Us"

James Owens

"Mary Karr: Sinners Welcome"
 

David Lee Garrison

"Jared Carter: Cross this Bridge at a Walk"


Janet McCann

"Ingrid Wendt: Surgeonfish"


Petra Kuppers

"Visiting the Hospital: Disability Culture, Non-Confessional — Jim Ferris's The Hospital Poems"


George Held

"Kathryn Levy: Losing the Moon"


Edward Byrne

"Time and Place: Linda Bierds's First Hand"
 


COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Hazel Hannell: Still Life, 1946"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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