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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