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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics




 
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VOLUMES I-X
 

Poetry | Reviews | Essays | Interviews | Art Commentary


POETRY
 

WILLIAM AARNES: "Kindly"

JONATHAN ALEXANDER: "Its Own Music"

GIL ALLEN: "Blueberries"

RANE ARROYO: "Surviving Utah"

HERMAN ASARNOW: "Double Fault"

AMANDA AUCHTER: "Photograph, April 1956"

AMANDA AUCHTER: "Wasteland of Parts"

CRYSTAL BACON: "Margaret's Heart"

D
AVID BAKER: "Humble House"

DAVID BAKER: "Midwest: Georgics"

DAVID BAKER: "Separation"

JOHN BALABAN: "Finishing Up the Novel After Some Delay"

JOHN BALABAN: "For John Haag, Logger, Sailor, Housepainter, Poet, Professor, and Grower of Orchids"

JOHN BALABAN: "A Gift of Morning Water"

NED BALBO: "From the Maelstrom"

NED BALBO: "On Goodbyes"

BARRY BALLARD: "Autumn"

BARRY BALLARD: "Paper Trees"

BARRY BALLARD: "The Re-invited"

JON BALLARD: "The Peach Orchard"

WALTER BARGEN: "Paperwork"

WALTER BARGEN: "Visual Appeal"

TONY BARNSTONE: "Oh, Great, He Gets To Go on Vacation"

JUDITH BARRINGTON: "Frequencies"

JACKIE BARTLEY: "The Moon through Blue Glass"

ANNETTE BASALYGA: "Going Blind"

C
LAIRE BATEMAN: "Another Poem on Blue"

CLAIRE BATEMAN: "Flight Path"

CLAIRE BATEMAN: "Pudding"

JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: "How She Became a Ziegfeld Girl"

JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: "Uprooted"

J.P. DANCING BEAR: "Chiroptera"

J.P. DANCING BEAR: "Island Like a Heart"

STEPHEN BENZ: "St Ambrose's Boarding School"

MAXIANNE BERGER: "Childless at the Shoestore"

MAXIANNE BERGER: "Exposure"

PAM BERNARD: "War Work"

ROBERT JAMES BERRY: "Maps"

MARY BIDDINGER: "The Last Man She Ever Knew"

MARY BIDDINGER: "Saint Monica Burns It Down"

MICHELLE BITTING: "The Exterminator's Wife"

MICHELLE BITTING: "Premiere"

SHEILA BLACK: "Romance"

KIMBERLY BLAESER: "Apprenticed to Justice"

DEBORAH BOGEN: "October"

DEBORAH BOGEN: "November"

ACE BOGGESS: "'What Is Your Favorite Movie'"

DAVID BOND: "At the Annual Thresherman's Show"

ANNE BRITTING BOWMAN: "Looking Back up the Hospital Drive"

GAYLORD BREWER: "Apologia to Mars and Moon"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Iceland"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Postcard of Speckled Eggs, Iceland"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Remembrance"

RONDA BROATCH: "Impermanence"

RONDA BROATCH: "Woman Feeds on the Fragments of a Day Without Rain"

ANNE C. BROMLEY: "Monsoon Theatre"

MICHELLE BROOKS: "Speak Without Blood"

T. ALAN BROUGHTON: "Bird in the Garage"

T. ALAN BROUGHTON: "Discoveries"

SARAH BROWNSBERGER: "A Golden Plover"

NICK BRUNO: "Malinconia"

CHRIS BULLARD: "Narcissus"

E.G. BURROWS: "The Beach at Moon's Resort"

KAREN CARISSIMO: "Christine"

JARED CARTER: "Dark Transit"

JARED CARTER: "Hidden Door"

JARED CARTER: "Honor System"

JARED CARTER: "Prophet Township"

JARED CARTER: "Scything a Path"

JARED CARTER: "Weed-Eater"

JARED CARTER: "While Cleaning Out the Garage"

MICHAEL CATHERWOOD: "Three Variations on the Suspension of Time"

JAMES CERVANTES: "Spring Loaded"

CHRISTOPHER CESSAC: "Romance, Wisconsin"

MIKE CHASAR: "Echinoidea Freddy"

PATRICIA CLARK: "Grove"

PATRICIA CLARK: "Turning Away from the River"

BILLY COLLINS: "Fiftieth Birthday Eve"

NICK CONRAD: "Mountain"

MARK CONWAY: "Having Gone to the Ends of the Earth"

MARK CONWAY: "Orpheus Speaks"

MARK CONWAY: "No Orpheus, No Way Home"

PETER COOLEY: "The Climbers"

BARBARA CROOKER: "All There Is To Say"

BARBARA CROOKER: "The Comet and the Opossum"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Driving Under the Clerestory of Leaves"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Impressionism"

BARBARA CROOKER: "In the Late Summer Garden"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Lemons"

BARBARA CROOKER: "One Word"

BARBARA CROOKER: "White Lilacs"

CHRISTINE CUCCIO: "New Jersey Spring"

HEIDI CZERWIEC: "Reverse Railroad"

HEIDI CZERWIEC: "Victorian Daguerreotype Series (Late 19th Century)"

CYRIL DABYDEEN: "Anaconda's Doubt"

CATHERINE DALY: "Buttercup"

LIGHTSEY DARST: "June"

CAROL V. DAVIS: "Porto and Sherry Sandeman (an advertising poster, 1931)"

JEANINE DERUSHA: "Robert Segee's Confession"

MICHAEL DIEBERT: "Razorback Gift Shop"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Autobiography"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Greenville Road"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Our Story"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Weight"

JEANNINE DOBBS: "I Confess, I Wanted To Be June"

DANIEL DONAGHY: "Snapshot: Four Turkeys at the Feeders"

JOHN DREXEL: "No History, No Geography"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Toast of the Terrarium"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Letter-Elegy"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Two Photographs"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "Easter Monday"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "Hunt"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "The Offices of Flowers"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "Suite for Red River Gorge"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "To Rake Leaves"

W.D. EHRHART: "Coaching Winter Track inTime of War"

W.D. EHRHART: "Golfing with My Father"

GEORGE EKLUND: "Homage to Jim"

SUSAN ELBE: "Will Come Back"

CHRIS ELLIS: "The Aquarium"

CHRIS ELLIS: "Finding the Dragon"

CHRIS ELLIS: "Heavy Snow"

CHRIS ELLIS: "Morning"

JOHN ESTES: "Round About"

R.G.
EVANS: "Forecast"

BERNARDINE EVARISTO: "The Betrothal"

BERNARDINE EVARISTO: "Londinium Tour Guide (Unofficial)"

BERNARDINE EVARISTO: "The Price You Pay, My Beautiful Wife"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Anniversaries"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Hopper's Paintings"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Midnight in the Moabi Tree"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Oh, So You're Doing a Handbook Again"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Sag Harbor Sundown"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "The Swankeeper"

JENNIFER FETT: "Islamorada"

CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS: "A Walk in an Open Gallery"

ANNIE FINCH: "Fawns"

ANNIE FINCH: "Wine-Glass Woman"

GARY FINCKE: "Before Salk"

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: "Frequencies"

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: "Happiness"

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: "Sweetgum Country"

CHARLES FISHMAN: "Passing September"

BRENT FISK: "Pine Lake, Late Summer"

STACIA FLEEGAL: "Standing Guard"

LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: "Echoes"

WILLIAM FORD: "The House of Music"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: "Night of the Bat"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: "Two Salesmen (Sunday Night, Fall 1961)"

ALICE FRIMAN: "This April"

ANDREW FRISARDI: "No Photo"

CAROL FRITH: "Figures on the Street"

CAROL FROST: "One Fine Day"

KATE GALE: "Poker Players"

BRENDAN GALVIN: "A Neolithic Meditation"

PAMELA GARVEY: "The Wasp Nest Growing Inside Our Window Frame"

PAMELA GEMIN: "Bottom of the Cup"

PAMELA
GEMIN: "Raspberries"

PAMELA GEMIN: "What's Going On"

REGINALD GIBBONS: "Logic"

REGINALD GIBBONS: "Refuge"

JOHN GILGUN: "Ahab's Son"

JOHN GILGUN: "The Ant in the Shadow of This Blade of Grass"

ELLEN GOLDSTEIN: "You Ask If I Have Plans"

BRENT GOODMAN: "Monona Bay"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Annabelle's Story"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Cold Comfort"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Controlled Skid"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Self-Portrait Against Dream"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Strange Glitter"

TAYLOR GRAHAM: "Listening for Answers"

ANNE HAINES: "Swallowed"

H. PALMER HALL:"Ghost Lights"

H. PALMER HALL: "New Names"

H. PALMER HALL: "Something"

H. PALMER HALL: "A Sonnet for Napalm"

H. PALMER HALL: "Vietnam Roulette"

CAROL HAMILTON: "Tourists"

PENNY HARTER: "Archaeology"

PENNY HARTER: "The Lens of Fire"

DANIEL HENRY: "Jumpshots in the Dark"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Scraper"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Grant Park Concert"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Plaza Beach Motel"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Sand Mining"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "The History of the Wedge"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "Knowing"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "The Names of the Rapids"

RANDALL HORTON: "A Blues Birthed into Go-Go"

ANN HOSTETLER: "Heirlooms"

P
AUL HOSTOVSKY
: "Bagpiper Among the Geese"

JASON HUSKEY: "34-Counter"

JOSEPH HUTCHISON: "White Peak"

COLETTE INEZ: "Doors"

CHARLES ISRAEL: "At the South Carolina Home for the Feeble-Minded, 1857"

Z. MICHAEL JACK: "Postcard, 1959: Coon Rapids, Iowa. Halcyon Days"

Z. MICHAEL JACK: "1955:An Incendiary Year in the Register, Claiming"

GRAY JACOBIK: "The Apple Tree"

GRAY JACOBIK: "Sasturgi: Wind-Sculpted Snow"

RHODA JANZEN: "Fingerling Lice Cup"

RHODA JANZEN: "First Time"

HALVARD JOHNSON: "Nimbus"

HALVARD JOHNSON: "Obligation"

DOUG JONES: "Coverings"

MARIE C. JONES: "Cape Cod"

NATHAN S.JONES: "Man Looking into the Sea"

DAVID JOSEPH: "Childhood"

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: "Holy Agony"

JULIE KANE: "Frequencies"

JEN KARETNICK: "Millipedes in the Wet Season"

JULIA KASDORF: "Seasonal Work"

GREG KEELER: "Our Pleasant Assassins"

GREG KEELER: "Under the River's Rush"

ROBIN KEMP: "Climbing"

LAURA KENNELLY: "Pre-Op"

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL: "Bang"

RUSS KESLER: "From a Fifties Childhood"

RUSS KESLER: "Self Portrait"

CLAIRE KEYES: "Sand into Stone"

ATHENA KILDEGAARD: "Middle Age"

L
EIGH KIRKLAND: "Flautist at the Al Fresco Wedding"

ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER: "The Creamy Gardenia"

JEFF KNORR: "Hands"

JEFF KNORR: "Winter Turkeys"

JOHN KNOX: "Pentecost: 30 June 1993"

JAN KOENEN: "August"

JESSICA DE KONINCK: "The Funhouse"

MIRIAM N. KOTZIN: "Remission"

NORBERT KRAPF: "The Blueberry Bush"

NORBERT KRAPF: "Still Dark"

THEA S. KUTICKA: "At the Department of Motor Vehicles"

CHERYL LACHOWSKI: "Looking West"

SARA LAMERS: "In My Religion"

GARY LECHLITER: "Bobby Signs Bluegrass"

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: "Angel at the Helm"

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: "Ode to Radio Antilles"

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: "Stick Paramours"

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: "White Shadow, Yank Hitcher"

ROBERT LIETZ: "Adapting the Cuisine"

ROBERT LIETZ: "Street-Class Harmonies (1)"

APRIL LINDNER: "Her Hands"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Keeping a Tropical Plant Alive in the North"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Mercies"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Talking to My Father About God"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Walking an Old Woman into the Sea"

MARY LINXWEILER: "Fearless"

MARY LINXWEILER: "Mistaken Words"

JULIA LISELLA: "Frequencies"

THOMAS DAVID LISK: "Metaphors and Sausage"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "April at the Arboretum"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "'How is a Shell Like Regret'"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "Last Dance"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "Temptation by Water"

RACHEL LODEN: "Continental Drift"

RACHEL LODEN: "Reconstructed Face"

JOEL LONG: "Cold June"

JOANNE LOWERY: "At the Farmer's Market, Death"

JENNIFER MACPHERSON: "Aphasia"

AL MAGINNES: "The Monn as Absence and Desire"

HEATHER MARING: "Taco Bell, Hannibal, Missouri"

CHRISTA MASTRANGELO: "O"

WILLIAM MATTHEWS: "On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H."

GREG MCBRIDE: "Dead Man's Word"

GREG MCBRIDE: "The Occupation"

JANET MCCANN: "The Bookstore on Broadway in Albany: AWP Conference 1999"

JANET MCCANN: "Taking Off the Face"

JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: "Cards Every Friday"

JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: "Scroll"

WALT MCDONALD: "Grandmother's House at Kitty Hawk"

WALT MCDONALD: "Leaving the Scene"

WALT MCDONALD: "The War in Bosnia"

WALT MCDONALD: "The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor"

MOLLY MELLINGER: "Dziadek"

MICHAEL MEYERHOFER: "Portrait of a Midwestern Exile on Wheels"

CHELLE MIKO: "Pickpocket"

PEGGY MILLER: "Trees and Air"

JUDITH MONTGOMERY: "Death Slips Up at Ristorante Monte Carlo"

JUDITH MONTGOMERY: "Vacation"

JULIE L. MOORE: "Afterlife"

R
ICK MULKEY: "Connecting the Dots"

KATHLEEN MULLEN: "Cleome"

KATHLEEN MULLEN: "Narcissus"

KAY MULLEN: "An Dinh Palace"

KAY MULLEN: "You Ask Why I Left"

JIM MURPHY: "Basement Occupations"

STEVE MYERS: "Brief Conversation, Milbridge, ME"

M
URIEL NELSON: "In a Fog"

PAUL NELSON: "Busy"

JEFF NEWBERRY: "Pantoum on a Line by Weldon Kees"

JOEY NICOLETTI: "The Cook-Out"

JOEY NICOLETTI: "Maintenance"

MIL NORMAN-RISCH: "Downingsville Road, Vermont"

RICHARD O'CONNELL: "Voladores"

ALICIA OSTRIKER: "Surface/Draft 6"

MARTIN OTT: "Breathless"

JAMES OWENS: "Temple"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Cicadas"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Hive"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Moving In"

LEE PASSARELLA: "Immanence"

RICHARD PAU-LLOSA: "Flight to L.A."

JOEL PECKHAM: "Nightwalking"

NICOLE PEKARSKE: "On the Birth of My Mother's Youngest Brother"

MARGARET PERRY: "At Stes. Maries de la Mer, Summer 1977"

MARGARET PERRY: "Snow Apples"

ALLAN PETERSON: "Singing and a House"

ALLAN PETERSON: "Superstition"

ROGER PFINGSTON: "Mountain Fog"

ROGER PFINGSTON: "Parking, 1958"

KEVIN PILKINGTON: "Capri"

KEVIN PILKINGTON: "Parthenon"

KEVIN PILKINGTON: "Promises"

STANLEY PLUMLY: "'The Morning America Changed'"

MARIANNE POLOSKEY: "Beyond the Fence"

MARIANNE POLOSKEY: "Cape May"

MARIANNE POLOSKEY: "Graveyard at Saarbruecken"

JOHN POPIELASKI: "Detachment"

DONNA PUCCIANI: "Jet Lag"

KEVIN RABAS: "Reseed"

DOUG RAMSPECK: "Bright Snake"

DOUG RAMSPECK: "Waterbourne"

D'ARCY RANDALL: "Frequencies"

ROCHELLE RATNER: "Fish Tank"

MICHELE REESE: "Plant Life"

CAROL COFFEE REPOSA: "Lines Composed in the Computer Classroom"

THOMAS REYNOLDS: "Klamanth Jazz Festival"

REBECCA REYNOLDS: "From Latin Insula or Island"

F. DANIEL RZICZNEK: "Green Tree Memento"

SUSAN RICH: "Waving Goodbye to River Road"

SUSAN RICH: "You Might Consider"

TAD RICHARDS: "Three Days"

KATHERINE RIEGEL: "Some River"

JAMES RIOUX: "Possum"

SUZANNE ROBERTS: "Rain in Venice"

ANDRÉS RODRIGUEZ: "The Late Age"

SEAN DAVID ROSS: "Yartzeit"

LEE ROSSI: "Snake Skin"

DAVID ROTHMAN: "Some Accusations"

JOHN RUFF: "'July, 1935-1943' (from a painting by Charles Burchfield)"

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

LEX RUNCIMAN: "Broadmoor"

LEX RUNCIMAN: "How Dawn Begins"

LEX RUNCIMAN: "I Noticed the Peaches"

DON RUSS: "Myself in You"

DANIEL SAALFELD: "Snake Meat"

MICHAEL SALCMAN: "Metonomy: Part for the Whole"

JORDAN SANDERSON: "Oral Hygiene"

SHEROD SANTOS: "Black Corsage (1880-1918)"

SHEROD SANTOS: "Airport Security"

SHEROD SANTOS: "A Writer's Life"

TERRENCE SAVOIE: "Ma Mére"

MARGOT SCHILPP: "The Fish Channel"

MARGOT SCHILPP: "If You Agree I'm Telling the Story"

MARGOT SCHILPP: "Revisiting Gauguin"

MARGOT SCHILPP: "Words a Hospitality"

MATTHEW W. SCHMEER: "Chess"

DON SCHOFIELD: "First Journey Alone"

J.D. SCHRAFFENBERGER: "Kentucky News Butch"

NIC SEBASTIAN: "The Olive Farmer"

PETER SERCHUK: "Not Like This Rose"

PETER SERCHUK: "Reveille for a Winter Morning"

DEEMA K. SHEHABI: "Of Harvest and Flight"

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: "Digging Up Peonies"

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: "First Blood"

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER: "Here Be Dragons"

STEVEN SCHROEDER: "South from Sweetwater"

RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: "Evening in Vezelay"

RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: "Parmigianino Thinking"

MARTHA SILANO: "No Refunds, No Exchanges"

ANN SILSBEE: "Bluer Than Sapphire"

BETH SIMON: "The Girl of Sixteen Who Desires"

BETH SIMON: "Rock, Bird"

BETH SIMON: "Taste Is"

FLOYD SKLOOT: "Labor Day Party"

FLOYD SKLOOT: "The Moonlight Manuscript, 1696"

LEE SLONIMSKY: "Pythagoras Goes to Work"

KATE SONTAG: "American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987"

KATE SONTAG: "Migration"

KATE SONTAG: "Second Nature"

BARRY SPACKS: "Two Portraits in a Gallery"

VINCENT SPINA: "Before Dawn: Otavalo Market"

JOANNIE STANGELAND: "When the Nights Lie Down White"

RICARDO STERNBERG: "Paulito's Birds"

JEANINE STEVENS: "A Date at the La Brea Tar Pits"

JEANINE STEVENS: "The Meaning of Monoliths"

DONALD STINSON: "As in Certain Paintings of Paul Klee"

DONALD STINSON: "On Three Hats of My Father's"

LYNN STRONGIN: "Ghostly"

VIRGIL SUAREZ: "Song for the Banyan"

VIRGIL SUAREZ: "Song for the Cucuyo"

VIRGIL SUAREZ: "Uncle Isidoro"

TERESE SVOBODA: "Octopus"

MARILYN TAYLOR: "Poem for a 75th Birthday"

MARILYN TAYLOR: "Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat"

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE: "Hurricane Season"

L
ARRY THOMAS: "Goldfish"

LARRY THOMAS: "Oyster"

DWAYNE THORPE: "Freeze Frame"

LIZ TILTON: "Alto"

DANIEL TOBIN: "Hope Chest"

DANIEL TOBIN: "The House"

J.L. TORRES: "Legacy"

ALISON TOWNSEND: "Great Horned Owl"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Death of a Doorman"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Light Riddles"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Small Girl in a Gift Shop"

CHRISTINA-MARIE UMSCHEID: "Alanson"

SUSAN VARNOT: "Impressionism"

KATHRINE VARNES: Four Sonnets from "His Next Ex-Wife"

KATHRINE VARNES: "Frequencies"

ANGELA VOGEL: "Rosebud, or Now That I Am Older"

CONSTANCE VOGEL: "At the Pool in the YWCA"

BENJAMIN VOGT: "Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954"

LYNN WAGNER: "Woman Blowing Soap Bubbles"

DAVI WALDER: "Dr. Levi-Montalcini's Passion"

DAVI WALDER: "Fighting with Nothing"

VALERIE WALLACE: "Travel"

MARTIN WALLS: "A Bend in Onondaga Creek"

WILLIAM H. WANDLESS: "Sojourner's Séance"

LAURA LEE WASHBURN: "How To Live in This World"

SCOTT WELVAERT: "Pushing a Dodge Charger into a Gas Station"

INGRID WENDT: "Armistice"

INGRID WENDT: "The Keeper of Secrets"

INGRID WENDT: "True to Form"

LESLEY WHEELER: "Frequencies"

LESLEY WHEELER: "Tornado Season"

JAMES R.WHITLEY: "Postcard from Orbis Tertius"

JAMES R.WHITLEY: "Nights of Gin and Ashes"

ANNE WILSON: "Taranto"

STEVEN WINN: "Masaya"

ROSEMARY WINSLOW: "Kingdom of Cloth, Three Women, A Naked Boy"

VINCENT WIXON: "Simple Pleasures"

VALERIE WOHLFELD: "Heart: Specimen"

CHARLES WRIGHT: "Is"

CHARLES WRIGHT: "Nostalgia"

KIRK M. WRIGHT: "Explaining the Moon"

LEILANI WRIGHT: "Flash Flood"

JENNIFER YAROS: "Jack-O'-Lantern"

F
REDRICK ZYDEK: "Family Secrets" 

 

BOOKS REVIEWED
 

MAGGIE ANDERSON: Windfall: New and Selected Poems

JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: Finding Cuba

DAVID BAKER: Changeable Weather

DAVID BAKER: Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry

JOHN BALABAN: Path, Crooked Path

LINDA BIERDS: First Hand

DEBORAH BOGEN: Landscape with Silos

PAULA BOHINCE: Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods

MARIANNE BORUCH: Grace, Fallen From

D
AVID BOTTOMS: Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems

DAVID BOTTOMS: Vagrant Grace

JARED CARTER: After the Rain

JARED CARTER: Cross this Bridge at a Walk

JARED CARTER: Les Barricades Mystérieuses: Thirty-Two Villanelles

JARED CARTER: Work, for the Night Is Coming

PATRICIA CLARK: My Father on a Bicycle

MARK CONWAY: Any Holy City

ROBERT W. CRAWFORD: Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man

BARBARA CROOKER: Line Dance

BARBARA CROOKER: Radiance

SHARON DOLIN: Serious Pink

RITA DOVE: American Smooth

LYNNELL EDWARDS: The Highwayman's Wife

CLAUDIA EMERSON: Late Wife

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Necessary Light

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit

B.H. FAIRCHILD: Local Knowledge

BETH ANN FENNELLY: Open House

JIM FERRIS: The Hospital Poems

DIANE GILLIAM FISHER: Kettle Bottom

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Blue Window

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN: "Famous"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: "Black Threads"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: Taking Down the Angel

BRENDAN GALVIN: Ocean Effects

D
AVID GRAHAM AND KATE SONTAG, EDS.: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography

JORIE GRAHAM: Never

H. PALMER HALL: Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things

GWEN HART: Lost and Found

BRENDA HILLMAN: Cascadia

JANET HOLMES: The Green Tuxedo

DONALD JUSTICE: Collected Poems

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: Wild Greens

ILYA KAMINSKY: Dancing in Odessa

MARY KARR: Sinners Welcome

TED KOOSER: Delights & Shadows

NORBERT KRAPF: Bloodroot: Indiana Poems

LANCE LARSEN: In All Their Animal Brilliance

LYNN LEVIN: Imaginarium

PHILIP LEVINE: The Mercy

LARRY LEVIS: Elegy

LARRY LEVIS: The Gazer Within

LARRY LEVIS: The Selected Levis

KATHRYN LEVY: Losing the Moon

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: Flight from the Mother Stone

DIANE LOCKWARD: Eve's Red Dress

DIANE LOCKWARD: What Feeds Us

RACHEL LODEN: Hotel Imperium

BOBBIE LURIE: Letter from the Lawn

SARAH MANGUSO: Siste Viator

WILLIAM MATTHEWS: Search Party

CAMPBELL MCGRATH: Pax Atomica

AMY MECKLER: What All the Sleeping Is For

JOSHUA MEHIGAN: The Optimist

PHILIP METRES: To See the Earth

JUDITH MONTGOMERY: Red Jess

KAY MULLEN: A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam

CARY NELSON, ED.: The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War

KATE NORTHROP: Things Are Disappearing Here

GREGORY ORR: The Blessing

GREGORY ORR: The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems 

GREGORY ORR: Poetry as Survival

MICHAEL PALMER: The Lion Bridge

MARIANNE POLOSKEY: Climbing the Shadows

DON SCHOFIELD: Approximately Paradise

SHEROD SANTOS: The Perishing

SHEROD SANTOS: The Pilot Star Elegies

SHEROD SANTOS: A Poetry of Two Minds

MARGOT SCHILPP: The World's Last Night

ELAINE SEXTON: Sleuth

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Fair Haven

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Hardboot: Poems New and Old

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: When There Is No Shore

ANN SILSBEE: The Book of Ga

ANN SILSBEE: Orioling

MARK STRAND: The Weather of Words

MARILYN L. TAYLOR: Subject to Change

SUSAN TERRIS: Poetic License

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: Keeping My Name

INGRID WENDT: Surgeonfish

MARK W. VAN WIENAN, ED: Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War

SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS: Ashes in Midair

ROSEMARY WINSLOW: Green Bodies

CHARLES WRIGHT: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
 
 

ESSAYS
 

DAVID BAKER: "Excerpt from 'Introduction' to Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry"

EDWARD BYRNE: "Life and Language: On the 50th Anniversary of Robert Lowell's Life Studies"

LAURA EBBERSON: "Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic Voice: Reconciling Influences"

W.D. EHRHART: "Words for John Balaban"

JEFFREY FRANK: "Poetry and the Cosmopolitan: Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems"

DAVID GRAHAM: "Voluminous Underwear: or, Why I Write Self-Portraits"

DAVID GRAHAM: "The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday"

H. PALMER HALL: "John Balaban's Vietnamese Translations"

H. PALMER HALL: "Why I Still Write about the War"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage"

CLAIRE KEYES: "Marianne Boruch and the Art of Surprise"

WALT MCDONALD: "Advice I Wish I'd Been Told"

ANDREW MULVANIA: "Confessions of St. Charles: Confession as Spiritual Autobiography in the Work of Charles Wright"

JOSEPH POWELL: "On the Newer Bees in Darwin's Garden"

K
ATE SONTAG: "Mother, May I?: Writing with Love"

INGRID WENDT: "Turning to Poems"

JENNIFER YAROS: "Nature and the Self: Dickinson, Bishop, Plath, and Oliver"
 

INTERVIEWS
 

EVAN SCOTT BRYSON: "Q & A with John Balaban"

EDWARD BYRNE: "Conversation with Elise Paschen"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Ingrid Wendt Interviewed"

JOUGH DEMPSEY: "Q & A with Jared Carter"

CHRIS ELLIS: "Q & A with Jonathan Holden"

SONDRA GASH: "Q & A with Diane Lockward"

KAREN MCCARTHY: "Q & A with Bernardine Evaristo"

KATHLEEN MULLEN: "Seeing into the Predictable: An Interview of Catherine Tufariello"

ANDREW MULVANIA: "Q & A with Sherod Santos"

LINDA SIMONE: "Ready to Eat the Sky: An Interview of Kevin Pilkington"

DARRYL TIPPENS: "Evidence of Grace: An Interview with Walt McDonald"

RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE: "La Poesia Está en El Corazón: Virgil Suarez's Transformation from Novelist to Poet"
 
 

ART COMMENTARY
 

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Abraham Rattner: Still Life Composition No. 3"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "David Hockney: Slow Rise"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Ed Paschke: Strano"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Elizabeth Nourse: Le Gouter"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Fare"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Frank V. Dudley: Shadows and Sunlit Silence"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Frederic Edwin Church: Mountain Landscape"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Hazel Hannell: Still Life, 1946"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "John August Swanson: Festival of Lights"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "John James Audubon: Purple Grackle"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Madame Butterfly: A Spectacular Woodcut Triptych by Helen Frankenthaler"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Paul Sierra: Family Portrait"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Robert Cottingham: W. 12th"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Santuaria de Chimayo"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Study for a Drawing: Stuart Davis"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Timothy Van Laar: Shadow Pictures"
 
 


 
 

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