Volume 106, Number 1/2
We have always loved each other / children all ways / pass it on —Lucille Clifton |
Poetry
Sally Lipton Derringer Look How White
Travis Mossotti I Had the Courage…
Lisa Fay Coutley Ode to the Bottle
Robert Walker More Evidence That My Father Is a Raymond Carver Character
Philip Dacey Homage to John Ashbery
Paul B. Roth Naming Silence
Marie-Elizabeth Mali Who Says the Ear Loves Silence?
Susan Rothbard Your Voice
Irene Sherlock Never Bend Down to Kiss a Dog
Brian Patrick Heston From Juvey
Daneen Bergland The Prodigal Vandals
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda My Doll and I
David Bart Toys
Sudie Nostrand I Understand Joy
Robert Walker How I Fell in Love with Linda the Human Slinky
Susan Rothbard The Phlebotomist’s Dream
Paul Martin Leaving
Gary Fincke Dentistry
Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi A Place Where Birds Would Warn Us
David Petruzelli The Projectionist
Bruce Lowry Honey
Virginia Bell Learning to Read Porno
Liz Robbins Unwrapped
Irene Sherlock Trouble
Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. Midnight Shift
Melanie Figg Regardless of What Is There To Be Seen
Kelly Terwilliger Improvisation
Kurt Steinwand Search Mode
Jim Daniels The Heavy Stuff
Julie Marie Wade Self-Portrait in Ugly Pants
Marianne Kunkel Why I Loved I Love Lucy
Naton Leslie You Have the Right to Babe Ruth
Tom Chandler Tarot Card Readings—Walk In
Jocelyn Heath Shell-Gathering in the Keys
Phillip Calderwood Civilization and Its Discontents
Thomas Dukes Sam Calls Angels to His Dreams, Again
Heather Kirn Helicopters Circle the Bedroom
Suzanne Zweizig American Supermarket Idyll
Craig Beaven Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill
Dore Kiesselbach Construction
David Sullivan Kurdish House on Fire
Elizabeth Brewster Thomas Self-Elegy
Robert M. Chute Dr. Chute’s Secret Journal 3/22/03
Leonard Gontarek Incoming Prayer
Heather Kirn Conversational English
Jesse Wallis For My Former Wife
Danielle Sellers Memorial Day
Jessica Colley Train Sketches
Gretchen Primack Michael Kleiman
J.R. Solonche Barbed Wire
Joe Bueter Appetite
Jan Beatty Her Steerage
Sonja James Sugar
Barbara Crooker Sugar
Alice Pero The Memory Game
Benjamin Garcia The Memory Jar
Laura Madeline Wiseman The Baton
Diane Lockward Preservation
Joe Bueter Posture
Laura Madeline Wiseman First Wish
Janice Lynch Schuster My Father Breathes
James Doyle Tracking the Shark
Allan Peterson Losing the Ocean
David Wagoner Glancing Once at the North Atlantic
James McKean Clinker Boat
Dara Barnat The Sound of Bullfrogs
Kelly Cherry Dust Devil Trails
Katharine Coles So Far North
Tom Schabarum Swimming with Michelangelo
Lee Sharkey City of Light
Kathleen Boyle Tuesday
Karen Sagstetter Sunrise over the Mall
James McKean Mr. Moon
Fred Yannantuono Blackout on North South Road
Brett Foster Sketch of a Pedestrian: Boston, Sunset
Amanda Newell April
Brian Swann Moonlight
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum Night Driving
Carol V. Davis The Way Light Begins to Fold on Itself
Christine Johnson-Duell My Husband Explains Light Years to Our Ten-Year-Old Daughter
Jim Daniels Driving the Narrow Roads of France to Detroit
Jim Daniels Christmas Dinner in Detroit, 2008
Marc Hudson Final Bath
Lorrie Goldensohn Passing On and Moving Out
Poets Introducing Poets
Sandra M. Gilbert introduces Diana O’Hehir
Breath
Clay Soldiers
Why Can’t I Dream About Him?
Walk Me to Schenectady
Pilot Me
Darling
Voice
Permission
Why I Won’t
Photograph
Elephant Seal
Boats
Lucille Clifton’s Last Radio Interview
“The Poet and the Poem” Grace Cavalieri interviews Lucille Clifton
Essay
“A Few Ode-ish Thoughts” by Gray Jacobik
Reviews
Robert Levine reviews Harmless by Myra Sklarew, War Bird by David Gewanter, and Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Greg McBride reviews The Looking House by Fred Marchant
Zara Raab reviews Blood Honey by Chana Bloch