Table of Contents
Tim Suermondt, When I Get There, If I Get There (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 9
John Hart, To St. Francis in the Garden 10
Clark Holtzman, The Bird Bath 12
Meri Culp, Side Porch Conjure 13
Diane G. Scholl, Earth, Air, Fire, Water 14
Hedy Habra, Sounds in the Attic 15
Doug Ramspeck, Black Tar River (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 16
Scott Gallaway, Calendar: Art and Science 17
Joseph Zaccardi, Isolate 18
Matthew J. Spireng, White Night Sky 19
Sharon Olson, Heavenly Bodies Along the Rail (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 20
Joseph Gross, January Song 22
Please Burn This Tonight 23
Maya Sarishvili, translated by Timothy Kercher and
Nene Giorgadze, [This winter, how will things work out for me?] 24
Roger Desy, the fate of saplings 25
Marilyn McCabe, Ashes Ashes 26
Summer Solstice 27
Laura Madeline Wiseman, Cleaning House 28
Jennifer Beebe, Now, In the Almost After 29
Rachael Lyon, When I Die 30
Jessica Bane Robert, And What of the Dead? 32
Gregory Lawless, The Griefs 33
Claire Wahmanholm, Dover in November 34
Charles Wyatt, Mirknight (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 36
Anthony Seidman, A Sleepless Man Sits Up In Bed 37
Suzanne Allen, Postcard to Grace from a Fifth Floor Morning 38
Christopher Munde, Memory 39
James Cox, Driving to Grandma’s 42
Heather Angier, Salt 44
Pea 45
Robert Spiegel, Wookie 46
Becky Kennedy, Dreaming of You 47
Carol V. Davis, Each Time the Doors Open 48
Mary Elizabeth Parker, Farewell, Norbert Rillieux, I Was Bound to Leave You 49
John Davis, Final Seconds: Saturday Night Basketball 52
Michael Poage, Core Work 53
Amy Piller, Music Man 54
Michael Bazzett, Boy 56
Thomas Patterson, Among the Living 57
Diana Festa, Fog 58
San Paolo Fuori Mura 59
Michael Lauchlan, Predawn 60
Dwayne Thorpe, Getting Up Early 61
Geri Rosenzweig, The White Birch 62
Petition 63
David McAleavey, Not yet the ending, with a line from Oppen 64
Sandra Kohler, Unknowing 66
John M. Anderson, Towhee Brood 67
Wendy Drexler, American Detritus (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 68
Marc Harshman, Leavened By Coincidence 70
Keith Wilson, I Know the Sea 71
Lisken Van Pelt Dus, The Uses of Appetite (Pushcart Prize Nominee) 72
Bridget Gage-Dixon, If only 73
Her Own Life 74
John Grey, Fridge Magnets 75
Richard Holinger, Abandoned, Gone 76
Frank Matagrano, Take One Tablet by Mouth As Needed 77
Judith H. Montgomery, The Coat 78
Kari LeeAnn Moss, Cliché 79
Lawrence Wray, As Far as That 80
Lee Passarella, Cloudscape with Heron 82
Susan Azar Porterfield, Elegy/Aubade 83
Damien Shuck, One Summer 84
Christopher Goodrich, Pickers 86
Pamela Ahlen, Red Kazoo 87
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Works with Red 88
Devon Miller-Duggan, Steichen’s Pepper 90
H. K. Rainey, Old Woman, Weaving 91
Kristin LaTour, Where I’m Calling From 92
Jeanine Stevens, A Ritual—to begin 94
BOOK REVIEWS
Gray Jacobik, Little Boy Blue, reviewed by Ruth Foley 95
Becky Sakellariou, Earth Listening, reviewed by Adrianne Kalfopoulou 96
Julie R. Enszer, Handmade Love, reviewed by Moira Richards 98
Ed. Alexander Neubauer, Poetry in Person, reviewed by Ruth Foley 100