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PMS 1-7

Linda Frost, editor



PMS 7 | 2007

Contents

  • poem
    • Lightsey Darst, "Lighthouse"
    • Gail Giewont, "The Other Woman" and "No Easy Rhyme"
    • Lois Marie Harrod, "Windows" and "Poem with Grave Words"
    • Maxine Chernoff, "Permanence and Change" and "Oracular"
    • Jennifer J.Gandel, "Wind, Leaving" and "Shooting the Wendy-bird"
    • Maribeth Lysen, "The Origins of the Frog Tattoo"
    • T. Mozelle Harris, "Darkness Speaks" and "Fire Replies"
    • Nicole Steinberg, "Seymour"
    • Nan Byrne, "The Fish Market"
    • Janet A. Baker, "I Awake in Despair of Ever Loving Again"
    • Rebecca Peters-Golden, "the emperor penguin is bigger than you think and other science (science, part II)"
    • Dana Sonnenschein, "A Grizzly Tale"
    • Susan McLean, "Like the Boys"
    • Rachel Eliza Griffiths, "Daughter, of the Ward"
    • Candace Pearson, "Waiting To Be Hit"
    • Colette Jonopulos, "There Was Loneliness Before"
    • Sarah Antine, "The Iowa Poems"
    • Chrissy Kolaya, "Live All Nude"
    • Kelli Russell Agodon, "Unnecessary Accent"
    • Jennifer Horne, "Chicago"
    • Elisabeth Meyer, "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies"
    • M.L. Brown, "Relief from Small Town Boredom"
    • Christine Tierney, "getting to white" and "The Darker"
    • Holly Welker, "Step"
    • Nikky Finney, "Cattails"
  • memoir
    • Miranda Gillespie, "Love Is Finished"
    • Gaines Marsh, "Dispatches from the Bama Nation (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)"
    • Patricia Brieschke, "Cracking Open"
    • Ginna Vogt, "Dancing Lessons from God"
    • Susan Kates, "Adoption Story"
  • story
    • Kim Aubrey, "Unfinished"
    • Tally Brennan, "The War With The Squirrels"
    • Vicki Covington, "The Haircut"

PMS 6 | 2006

Contents

  • poem
    • Sally Allen McNall, "We strike"
    • April Reitano, "And God, I Was Always Saying Please"
    • Laura Paul, "Antiphon at Easter" and "Dinner"
    • Robin Behn, "The Floating Room" and "Yellow Morning"
    • Daneen Bergland, "Angiospermaphrodite" and "Pelvic"
    • Rebekah Keaton, "Black Blossoms for Mother"
    • Christina Hall, "Nettles Viceroy"
    • Marianne Taylor, "The Accident"
    • Traci Dant, "The Bath" and "Casting James Earl Jones"
    • Lois Marie Harrod, "Even Doing Nothing Takes Planning" and “You Mean We’re Just Waiting to Die?”
    • Kelle Groom, "Ode to the Year 600" and "How Rolling Stone Saved My Life"
    • Allison Schuette-Hoffman, "Nancy Drew’s Vagina Monologue"
    • Irja Bonafede, "A Grown Man Masturbates to a Young Picture of Himself"
    • Karen R. Porter, "The Microprospects"
    • Laura LeHew, "A Flock of Crows"
    • Diane Lockward, "Invective Against the Bumblebee"
    • Laura Secord, "The Burning"
    • Maggie Jochild, "Ostara"
    • Diane Hueter, "Self Portrait #7"
    • Barbara Daniels, "Ready to Fall"
    • Lynn Domina, "Little Lambs Eat Ivy" and "Mistaken Notions"
    • Aisha Maryam Sharif, "How To Piss Off Your Mother"
    • Erin Teegarden, "Birds, All Sing, As If—" and "Prayer"
    • Liz Robbins, "Voice in a Water Drip"
    • Niki Sixx, "Girrl"
  • memoir
    • Molly Peacock, "Passion Flowers in Winter"
    • Holly Welker, "Dominoes," "Seeking Shelter," and "Of Losing"
    • Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, "Barfing in the First Grade"
    • Alyce Miller, "Okay, So Maybe It Really Does Go Back to Jackie Robinson"
    • Krystal K. Henry, "Katrina and Why I Hate Her"
  • story
    • Cathy Warner, "The White Space Between the Blue Lines"
    • Wendy Rawlings, "Omaha"
    • Stephanie Dickinson, "After Baah Ate a Dandelion"
    • Dolen Perkins-Valdez, "Miss Mary’s Transformation"

PMS 5 | 2005

Contents

  • poem
    • Lightsey Darst, "Stirring" and "Loving Married Men"
    • Carla Panciera, "Luncheon, With Spirits"
    • Kelle Groom, "Esmeralda" and "Miss American Pie"
    • Amy Randolph, "My Recovery"
    • Remica L. Bingham, "Ornithology"
    • Felicia Mitchell, "Where Are My Daughters?"
    • Natasha Trethewey, "Graveyard Blues"
    • Lesley Wheeler, "Other Peoples’ Grief"
    • Susanna Fry, "Dream #5" and "Good daughter"
    • JodiAnn M. Stevenson, "Hysterical"
    • Barbara Smith, "Love Poem"
    • Alyce Miller, "His Skin"
    • Alison Townsend, "How My Father Saved Me"
    • Helen Tzagoloff, "Reunion"
    • Judith Skillman, "Butter and Eggs"
    • Lisa Higgs, "Garden in Sochi"
    • Kathleen Driskell, "Ring" and "Our Neighbor’s Flock of Peacocks Wander Over for Another Visit"
    • Jill Karle Leahman, "Dreaming"
    • Elizabeth Wylder, "The Harvest Moon"
    • Maria Morrison, "a girl’s body"
    • Susan Cronin, "The Art of the Cut"
    • Patti White, "Grindstone City, Michigan"
    • Patricia Hill, "This Dog"
    • Regan Huff, "Overcoming the Leafblowers"
    • Mary Crow, "Waiting a Long Time"
    • Sheryl L. Nelms, "fresh day" and "Flocking Up"
  • memoir
    • Lori Soderlind, "66 Signs that the Former Student who Invited You to Dinner Is Trying to Seduce You"
    • Lucia Perillo, "Definition of Terms"
    • Sasha Jones, "Plan B"
    • Sherry Darling, "My Wedding"
  • story
    • Cinthia Ritchie, "Lunch With Oprah"
    • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Home Brew"
    • Melissa Feuerstein, "Ghost"
    • Heather Springer, "Manifesto"
    • Sheri Joseph, "Missing Pieces"
 

PMS 4 | 2004

Contents

  • poem
    • Heather Burmeister, "crow."
    • Tammara Lindsay, "Abercrombie&Fitch" and "Eddie Bauer"
    • Elaine Equi, "John Coltrane’s Central Park West" and "The Long Forever"
    • Marianna Hofer, "This Morning Could Be the New World"
    • Maria Vargas, "Without Dreams"
    • Sandra Kohler, "Maybe Sibelius" and "Someone Else’s Love Poems"
    • Nancy Powers, "Four Variations on Loss"
    • Karen Maceira, "Marcia, Dying of Cancer, Speaks to a Curbstone"
    • Carla Panciera, "They Could Be Moons"
    • Kathleen Roxby, "Without No Shoes"
    • Trish Steinley Davis, "Floater"
    • Lynne Thompson, "Quicksand" and "Marriage, A Fugue"
    • Patti White, "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Ishmael"
    • Janet McCann, "The Woman Who Collects Noah’s Arks" and "Somnia"
    • Halsted Mencotti Bernard, "With Talons"
    • Karla Clark, "Because of the Noise the Birds Make" and "Long Marriage Poem"
    • Wendy L. Burk, "Lyric"
    • Carly Sachs, "from The Steam Sequence"
    • Denise Duhamel, "Lip Lines" and "Self-Portrait in Rhyming Slang"
    • Eileen Murphy, "Cheating"
    • Zan Gay, "Letters to a Foundling Home, 1892"
    • Mary Kaiser, "Suppertime"
    • Irene Latham, "Paralyzed"
    • Mendi Lewis Obadike, "Willow, Weep" and "Learning to Listen"
    • Sonia Sanchez, "He/She"
    • Lois Marie Harrod, "Yoke"
    • Naomi Levine, "The Unbrave"
  • memoir
    • L. J. Rose, "Blood Meal"
    • Jeanie Thompson, "To Mike Kusmahn, With Regards, Where Ever You May Be"
    • Holly Welker, "Satin Worship"
    • Mary Smothers, "Here In Iraq"
  • story
    • Ada Long, "Clairvoyant"
    • Kerry Langan, "Reservoir"
    • Leslie Elise Keysor, "The Man Who Loved You"
    • Judith Arcana, "Sheila’s Deposition, 1997" and "Noreen’s Phone Calls, 1999"
    • Elizabeth Rollins, "Tail"
 

PMS 3 | 2003

Contents

  • poem
    • Holly Welker, "Surrender"
    • Mary Elizabeth Parker, "Stuffing My Reticule"
    • Harriet Zinnes, "Mine" and "Angels"
    • Kate Evans, "Jeannie"
    • Hadara Bar-Nadav, "Nerves on the Outside"
    • Lisa Zimmerman, "What Is the Weight of a Boy’s Grief?" and "Lies/Truths"
    • Pat Andrus, "White, with No Apologies"
    • Cindy King, "Obduracy"
    • Carly Sachs, "the story"
    • Dandrea V. James, "Imbalanced Meal"
    • Anne Johnson Mullin, "Weather"
    • Cathleen Calbert, "Liar"
    • Gail White, "Beauty and the Beast"
    • Michelle L. Brown, "Crushed Red Pepper"
    • Mary Carol Moran, "Emu"
    • Maria McLeod, "Oral Contraceptive"
    • Linda Susan Jackson, "Beauty’s Sea­son"
    • Anna DeMay, "Bruce the Thirty-Eight Year Old Neon Artist Tells It Like It Is"
    • D. Jane Hall, "Reeling"
    • Amy Gerstler, "A Widow"
    • Kelley Jean White, "May 7, 1942"
    • Carla Baku, "Pondering the Death of My Only Daughter"
    • Jill Wright, "Garden"
    • Julie Lechevsky, "After the War"
    • Lois Marie Harrod, "But How Do I Do It?"
    • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Reunion Scripture One" and "What Is Written for Me"
    • Michelle Vessel, "Invalid" and "Aftermath"
    • Lynn Powell, "Snowscape"
  • memoir
    • Tina Harris, "In M’am-Maw’s Hands"
    • Sandra M. Jensen, "Luna"
    • Carolyn McKinstry, "Season of Change"
  • story
    • Bonnie Roop Bowles, "Painted Faces"
    • Martha Highers, "Parts of a True Story"
    • Jacqueline Rasnic, "Ruth’s Tooth"
    • Emma Wunsch, "How to Dance in America"

PMS 2 | 2002

Contents

  • poem
    • Lynne Burris Butler, "Inventory: Jewelry Box" and "Earthquake"
    • MaryJo Mahoney, "A River Trip"
    • Sondra Zeidenstein, "Still, Tilla"
    • Ruth Stone, "Lines" and "And so forth"
    • Stephanie Dickinson, "Stillbirth"
    • Cheryl Dumesnil, "Atlantis" and "Somewhere in a Box Marked 'Keep'"
    • Kat Meads, "Clara"
    • Trixie Wilson, "Holiday Inn"
    • JC Watson, "On The Way Home"
    • Cheryl Stiles, "Desire"
    • Paisley Rekdal, "On Getting A Dog And Being Told What I Really Want Is A Child" and "The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee"
    • J.M. Holwerda, "Kansas"
    • Susan Thomas, "Thicker Than Water"
    • Jan Clausen, "Portrait"
    • Connie Sanderson, "Anonymous"
    • Suzanne Burns, "Cinderella"
    • Allison Joseph, "Not a White Girl"
    • Michelle R. Smith, "Catholic School"
    • Terry Scheidt, "Drive"
    • holly lu conant rees, "back out"
    • Toni La Ree Bennett, "Doing Dishes"
    • Unity Durieux, "Freedom"
    • Dale M. Kushner, "Depression"
    • Felicia DuBois, "My Father Holding the Hounds" and "The Abandoned Stables"
    • Julie Steward, "The Place of the Poem"
  • memoir
    • Wendy Reed Bruce, "Wrongful Death"
    • Irene Sherlock, "Calla Lilies"
    • Julie Cooper-Fratrik, "Statues"
    • Candace Black, "The Shadow Knows"
    • Nancy Johnson-Oberwanowicz, "A Day in September"
  • story
    • Stacy Bierlein, "My Father’s Head"
    • Karen Rosenberg, "Eclectic"
    • Gail R. Henningsen, "Women Who Could Not Have Babies, Then Did"
    • Maria Casale, "Permanent Green Light"

PMS 1 | 2001

Contents

  • poem
    • Gayle Elen Harvey, "Three Moons (Helen Frankenthaler-1961)"
    • J.M. Holwerda, "Worst Things"
    • Lynne Potts, "Hospital Conversation" and "Years By Insects"
    • Sandra Kohler, "Envy"
    • Suki Wessling, "2 Chinese Poems"
    • Marianna Hofer, "from The Private History of Kisses, pt 1"
    • Cheryl Denise, "Three Women Hanging Laundry"
    • Judith Arcana, "In the Service We Said"
    • Melissa Dameron, "Rachel"
    • Rynn Williams, "Water Witch"
    • Carol Ebbecke, "At the Pass Dam"
    • Sarah Kennedy, "God’s Country"
    • Ruxandra Cesereanu, "from Lunacies; XLVIII and L"
    • Ann Fisher-Wirth, "The Heirlooms (1996)"
    • Linda Lancione Moyer, "Taking Over"
    • Diane Gage, "Owls"
    • Traci Slatton, "One Weekend in the Astral Plane"
    • Louise Gwathmey Weld, "uncle frank lies in the parlor" and "Charleston, South Carolina"
    • Virginia Schnurr, "Learning to Speak"
    • Jacqueline McLean, "Going Out of Style"
    • Barbara O’Dair, "A Man on Each Arm"
    • Amber Luzak, "returning the favor"
    • Julie Grass, "Posing for the Artist"
    • Ruth Thompson, "The Beauty of Shells"
    • Joanne Argento, "The Seminary in May"
    • Cathleen Calbert, "Rules" and "Afterwards"
  • memoir
    • Vicki Covington, "The Cradle Roll"
    • Colleen O’Brien, "Fit"
    • Leslie Bingham Williams, "Nam Prik Kapi"
    • Emily Lyons, "My Wake-up Call"
  • story
    • Kristine Hren Moe, "Orange Diamonds"
    • Sally Fosket, "Love and Work"
    • Beth Dalton, "Home Video"
    • Madeleine Beckman, "Beach Days"
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