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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume X, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2008-2009
 


Cover art: John James Audubon (b. 1785 - d. 1851)
Purple Grackle, 1826-1838
  Hand colored engraving with aquatint
Plate 7 of The Birds of America, Havell Edition

Brauer Museum of Art, 2003.03

 

FEATURED POET:

ELISE PASCHEN
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Elise Paschen

 "Cicadas"

J.P. Dancing Bear

 "Chiroptera"
 

Alexandra Teague

 "Hurricane Season"


Joseph Hutchison

 "White Peak"


Jennifer Yaros

"Jack-O'-Lantern"
 

Deborah Bogen

 "October"

"November"
 

Al Maginnes

"The Moon as Absence and Desire" 

Stacia Fleegal

 "Standing Guard"


Walter Bargen

"Paperwork"


Michelle Bitting

"Premiere"
 

Steve Myers

 "Brief Conversation, Milbridge,ME" 

Mil Norman-Risch

 "Downingsville Road, Vermont"
 

Vincent Spina

"Before Dawn: Otavalo Market"
 

Nic Sebastian

"The Olive Farmer"


Peter Serchuk

"Reveille for a Winter Morning"
 

Valerie Wallace

"Travel"
 

Susan Varnot

"Impressionism"
 

Karen Carissimo

"Christine" 

 
Jared Carter

  "Dark Transit"


Crystal Bacon

  "Margaret's Heart"


Julie L. Moore 

"Afterlife"

Ann Hostetler
 
"Heirlooms"

Molly Mellinger
  
"Dziadek"


John Estes
  
"Round About"


Athena Kildegaard
  
"Middle Age"


Larry Thomas
  
"Oyster"


Rhoda Janzen
  
"Fingerling Lice Cup"


Tad Richards
  
"Three Days"


Claire Keyes
  
"Sand into Stone"


Steven D. Schroeder
  
"Here Be Dragons"


INTERVIEW


Edward Byrne

"Conversation with Elise Paschen"



ESSAY


Jennifer Yaros

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



R
EVIEWS

 

Jana Bouma

"Deborah Bogen: Landscape with Silos"

 

Rosemary Winslow

"Barbara Crooker: Line Dance"
 

Russ Kesler

"Rhythms of Experience: Brendan Galvin's Ocean Effects"


Diane Lockward

"Paula Bohince: Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods"


Claire Keyes

"Marianne Boruch: Grace, Fallen From"
 


C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"John James Audubon: Purple Grackle"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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