Issue 8: spring/summer 2009
All Poetry Issue
- Barbara Hamby – Ode on Giving, War, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria
- Heather Sellers – My Elementary School in Orlando, Built on the Site of the Fountain of Youth, Teacher Reuniting with Twelve Students at a Restaurant
- Chip Livingston – Poemx (that I thought broke my heart)
- Charles Sand – Sister’s Song, Ballad of an Ass Treading Toward an Angel
- Tom Lombardo – Sun Cloud Night Dawn
- Charles Wyatt – Haspenald, Maffle, Dittology
- Olivia Clare – The Beaten Brothers
- Jona Colson – Doctor to Patient
- Molly Kugel – First Night in the Palace, History of Shell
- Heather Hamilton – Shark, Desert Flying: Algeria, 1942
- F. J. Bergmann – Reflecting
- Kathleen Cochran – Companion, Approximate Wait Time Will Be
- K. Edwards – High Times
- Charles Baudelaire (translated by James McColley Eilers) – La Beauté (Beauty)
- Pablo Medina – At the Blue Note, The Highway of Blazing Cars
- Susan Browne – Zephyr, Mandolin
- Christopher Bakken – 17.xi.07, Vise
- Erinn Batykefer – Before You Wake
- W. S. Di Piero – The Light Box, The Big Beach Book
- Hailey Leithauser – The Moon Speaks of the Lives of Caesars
- Robert Schultz (photographs by Binh Danh) – from Transmigrations
- Devon McC Jackson – UXOs
- Anne Shaw – Hobble
- T. Zachary Cotler – No Coincidence, At Keats Grove, Hampstead
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil – The Secret of Soil
- David Kirby – Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
- Carrie Jerrell – Big Daddy
- Michael Loughran – Letters to Noelle, What We Need the Most Will Be at First Refused
- Sara Pennington – from The Primer of Zinnie Lucas: An Abecedarium
- Timothy O’Keefe – If Palinurus, Candle
- Eric Bliman – Hades Dreams of Winter in Springtime
- Billy Collins – As Usual
- Jessica Johnson – Barnacles
- Kevin Cantwell – Carpenters at Carrabelle
- Danielle Sellers – The Wrecker’s Wife, Key West, 1841
- Chris Tanseer Wallace – in the Tropics, Charles & Emma
- Paige Hill Starzinger – Border Land
- Ellen Goldstein – The Pleiades: Electra
- Amanda Carver – Whatever It Is, Second Grade
- Stephanie Kartalopoulos – When I Miss Him
- Stefanie Wortman – Family Plot
- Allen Braden – Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
- Andrew Kozma – A Firm Belief in Unfettered Joy
- Sandra Meek – Moth Season
- Colette Inez – Revery of Sappho
- Robert Herschbach – Loose Weather, Cul-de-sac
- Kathleen Hellen – Optimism: The Pikesville cheerleaders before the game
- Terri Witek – Walking Fertile
- Joanna Preston – Breaking Up
- Claudia Burbank – Opera
- Richard Lyons – As an Espionage Film with Subtitles
- Kate Angus – I Will Begin Tagging “Sad Robot Inc.” . . ., Thank You Again, Brooklyn, for the Free Coffee
- Mihaela Moscaliuc – Dreaming in Romanian
- Stephen Kampa – Upon Finishing Don Juan, The Reclamation of Paradise
- Daniel Wolff – Green Heron