Subtropics Issue 8 Cover
Issue 8: spring/summer 2009

All Poetry Issue

  • Barbara HambyOde on Giving, War, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria
  • Heather SellersMy Elementary School in Orlando, Built on the Site of the Fountain of Youth, Teacher Reuniting with Twelve Students at a Restaurant
  • Chip LivingstonPoemx (that I thought broke my heart)
  • Charles SandSister’s Song, Ballad of an Ass Treading Toward an Angel
  • Tom LombardoSun Cloud Night Dawn
  • Charles WyattHaspenald, Maffle, Dittology
  • Olivia ClareThe Beaten Brothers
  • Jona ColsonDoctor to Patient
  • Molly KugelFirst Night in the Palace, History of Shell
  • Heather HamiltonShark, Desert Flying: Algeria, 1942
  • F. J. BergmannReflecting
  • Kathleen CochranCompanion, Approximate Wait Time Will Be
  • K. EdwardsHigh Times
  • Charles Baudelaire (translated by James McColley Eilers) – La Beauté (Beauty)
  • Pablo MedinaAt the Blue Note, The Highway of Blazing Cars
  • Susan BrowneZephyr, Mandolin
  • Christopher Bakken17.xi.07, Vise
  • Erinn BatykeferBefore You Wake
  • W. S. Di PieroThe Light Box, The Big Beach Book
  • Hailey LeithauserThe Moon Speaks of the Lives of Caesars
  • Robert Schultz (photographs by Binh Danh) – from Transmigrations
  • Devon McC JacksonUXOs
  • Anne ShawHobble
  • T. Zachary CotlerNo Coincidence, At Keats Grove, Hampstead
  • Aimee NezhukumatathilThe Secret of Soil
  • David KirbySearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
  • Carrie JerrellBig Daddy
  • Michael LoughranLetters to Noelle, What We Need the Most Will Be at First Refused
  • Sara Pennington – from The Primer of Zinnie Lucas: An Abecedarium
  • Timothy O’KeefeIf Palinurus, Candle
  • Eric BlimanHades Dreams of Winter in Springtime
  • Billy CollinsAs Usual
  • Jessica JohnsonBarnacles
  • Kevin CantwellCarpenters at Carrabelle
  • Danielle SellersThe Wrecker’s Wife, Key West, 1841
  • Chris Tanseer Wallacein the Tropics, Charles & Emma
  • Paige Hill StarzingerBorder Land
  • Ellen GoldsteinThe Pleiades: Electra
  • Amanda CarverWhatever It Is, Second Grade
  • Stephanie KartalopoulosWhen I Miss Him
  • Stefanie WortmanFamily Plot
  • Allen BradenCatalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
  • Andrew KozmaA Firm Belief in Unfettered Joy
  • Sandra MeekMoth Season
  • Colette InezRevery of Sappho
  • Robert HerschbachLoose Weather, Cul-de-sac
  • Kathleen HellenOptimism: The Pikesville cheerleaders before the game
  • Terri WitekWalking Fertile
  • Joanna PrestonBreaking Up
  • Claudia BurbankOpera
  • Richard LyonsAs an Espionage Film with Subtitles
  • Kate AngusI Will Begin Tagging “Sad Robot Inc.” . . ., Thank You Again, Brooklyn, for the Free Coffee
  • Mihaela MoscaliucDreaming in Romanian
  • Stephen KampaUpon Finishing Don Juan, The Reclamation of Paradise
  • Daniel WolffGreen Heron