Spring 2017 Number 44
Featured Poet
Claribel Alegría
- An Introduction to Claribel Alegría, by Carolyn Forché
- An Interview with Claribel Alegría, with Salvador Peralta and Gregory Fraser
- Claribel Alegría: A Human Presence, by Laura Sonderman
- This Mirror Understands Me, by Claribel Alegría
- Testament, by Claribel Alegría
Winner of the Collins Prize
Stephen Kampa
Read Online
- Kate Angus, Men in Bars
- Michael Chitwood, Search & Rescue
- Nausheen Eusuf, Pied Beauty
- Rachel Morgan, Pietà
- Amy Pence, Calaveras Big Trees
- Ellen Doré Watson, One of the Waves
Contents
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Featured Poet
Claribel Alegría
- From Love without End
- To My Mother
- This Mirror Understands Me
- My Paradise in Mallorca
- I Am Root
- We Were Three
- Documentary
- Savoir Faire
- Testament
- Introduction
- Preface to Flores del Volcan (Flowers from the Volcano)
- Introduction to Saudade (Sorrow)
Laura Sonderman
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Featured Essay
Michael Theune and Bob Broad
- Value Hunger: Feeding the Need for Assessment in Poetry
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Poems
- Kate Angus
- If the Dead Bird in the Gutter Rises Up
- Men in Bars
- Ned Balbo
- Time’s Passage at Whiskey River
- Fool’s Elegy
- What Words Survive
- Night Watch
- Animal College
- Gimpel the Adjunct
- David Basilico
- I Sit Atop a Compost Toilet
- Anna Lena Phillips Bell
- Overture
- Michelle Boisseau
- About Halfway Down the Page
- Bruce Bond
- Bone Flute
- Belladonna
- Nostalgia for the Infinite
- Paul Bone
- The River
- Marianne Boruch
- The Visit
- David Bottoms
- Little King Snake on the Prayer Porch
- Joshua R. Butts
- Hudson at Saugerties
- Michael Chitwood
- Clayton Adam Clark
- Salvage: A Field Guide
- Michael Collier
- My Bishop
- Rob Cook
- Four Broken Ways to Pray
- Daniel Corrie
- Seedlings
- Daniel DeVaughn
- May Hawes
- Eric Elshtain
- In a warm sea
- Nausheen Eusuf
- Mind of Winter
- Pied Beauty
- Diamond Forde
- The Right Words
- Rebecca Foust
- Autoportrait sans Moi-Même
- Andrew Glaze
- Rhinoceros
- Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
- The Romantics
- J. P. Grasser
- Hook Echo
- Fetch
- Juliana Gray
- Lizzie Borden’s Pears
- The Chauffeur’s Daughter Recalls Miss Borden
- Eamon Grennan
- Che Passa
- Comeback with Swans
- Lisa Hammond
- I’m Not Really a Waitress
- Jeffrey N. Johnson
- Particle Search in D Minor
- Madison Jones
- Sparrows on a High Wire
- Stephen Kampa
- Dodo
- The Quiet Boy
- Sean Karns
- The Man of Dirt Toils in the Laughter of His Wayward World
- Brian Laidlaw
- The Resurgence
- The Reckoning Remedy
- The Reckoning Rosary
- [The Place I Love Is Burning]
- Alexis Levitin translating Salgado Maranhão
- Seal 9
- Seal 10
- Carey Link
- Decoding the Colorless Puzzle
- William Logan
- The Age of Heroes
- Reed Beds
- Homage to an Army
- D-Day, 2014
- James Longenbach
- Earthling
- Angie Macri
- Apples Like Roses
- J. G. McClure
- Nothing Will Be All Right, But Thank You Anyway
- Self Portrait as Ego and Vehicle
- John McKernan
- Woman Screaming Against Angels
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Apophallation
- What the Glossator Knows
- The Glossator Realizes that Large Birds are Probably Unstable Signifiers
- Matt W. Miller
- Seborrhea
- Tyler Mills
- Hibakusha
- Rachel Morgan
- No One Can Own the Beach
- Pietà
- Burt Myers
- Our House on Fire
- Mark Neely
- Bruce’s Mood
- Kyle Norwood
- A Scholar’s Vacation
- Amy Pence
- John Poch
- Elegy for Mark Strand
- Deborah Pope
- Visiting Hours with My Grandmother
- Terry Savoie
- Chapel (1963)
- Will Schutt translating Francesco Scarabicchi
- “I carry words . . .”
- Promenade
- Incipit
- A Half Wave
- Tom Sleigh
- My Tiger
- Playbook
- Barry Sternlieb
- Cold Bearing
- Sustenance
- Zack Strait
- Mantis
- Jeffrey Thomson
- Hotel California
- Seth Brady Tucker
- Countdown
- Ellen Doré Watson
- What We Carry
- One of the Waves
- Charles Harper Webb
- Rasa
- Marcus Wicker
- What I Won’t Say about My High-School Girlfriend
- Allison Wilkins
- Menagerie, Thasos Museum
- Eleanor Wilner
- To Bear Them Up
- Intimations
- The Phoenix Reflects on Its Peculiar Situation
- What the Kite Sees
- When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light
- Kate Angus