Spring 2018 Number 45
Featured Poet
Gerald Stern
- "And I Go On and On": Gerald Stern’s Poetics of Protest, by Lucy Biederman
- View from the Tenth Decade: An Interview with Gerald Stern, by Will Durham
- The Cost of Love
- Swimming Backstroke
- Up on Blocks
- March 17
Winner of the Collins Prize
Shara Lessley
Read Online
- Dick Allen, In This World of Dust and Duty
- Toi Derricotte, The Peaches of August
- Chelsea Rathburn, The Corinthian Women
- Lisa Russ Spaar, Copperhead Madrigal
- Pimone Triplett, Real Estate
- Charles Bardes, Rictus
Contents
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Featured Poet
Gerald Stern
- Baby Rat
- The Cost of Love
- Swimming Backstroke
- Up on Blocks
- March 17
- Age 7
- Meadow
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Featured Essay
Ryan Wilson
- The Polyvocal Poet: Tradition, Translation, and the True Original
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Poems
- Chad Abushanab
- Poem Begun in a West Texas Corn Maze
- Dan Albergotti
- Blood of the Father
- Dick Allen
- In This World of Dust and Duty
- Seeing Your Breath
- Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Andrea Spofford
- Morning Routine
- Doppler Radar
- Angela Ball
- The Fortress of My Desk
- The Last Brandy
- Charles Bardes
- Field Clod
- Duck Blind
- Duck Blind 2
- Rictus
- Lararium
- Christopher Buckley
- The Permanence of Elapsed Time: Reflections on a Parochial Education
- Conor Burke
- Before the Term
- Elijah Burrell
- Look at These Altars
- Colby Cotton
- The Killing Floor
- Jim Daniels
- We Met at Exclamation Point
- Susan de Sola
- Cedar Closet
- Shawn Delgado
- Dandelions
- Toi Derricotte
- After Elytis
- The Peaches of August
- Airplane Window
- Jehanne Dubrow
- Minutes
- Anna M. Evans
- Standing Up
- Mary Romero Ferguson
- Penelope, with the Children
- Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- Dirty Old Man in the Dustbin of Historyr
- Dirty Old Man and the Maestro
- Dirty Old Man Talks to Himself Behind His Back
- Jason Gray
- Tip of the Tongue
- Octopus
- Benjamin S. Grossberg
- Pinnacle
- Daniel Groves
- Homecoming
- Allison Joseph
- Being Marvin’s Underwear
- Annie Kantar
- About Your New Place
- Jee Leong Koh
- From Hi Harlem
- Ted Kooser
- At Home
- Andrew Kozma
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man
- David Landon
- Montaigne at Piggly Wiggly
- Shara Lessley
- Late Epithalamium with Perennials
- The Ugly American
- Jennifer Holley Lux
- Studland Beach
- Kazahana
- Robert Manaster
- What Our Children Will Be
- Transcription
- At The Sea Merchant Restaurant
- Timothy McBride
- A Cosmology of Clouds
- Max McDonough
- The Bat
- Ashley Anna McHugh
- The Last Time You Left Me for Your Wife
- Christopher Merrill
- TIn the Galapagos Islands
- Thorpe Moeckel
- Father on the Beach, Tide Coming In
- In the Yoga Zone
- Peter Munro
- What Is Gone from Me
- Laura Neal
- I Heard the Buzzards Shrill
- Dan O’Brien
- One Hundred and Nineteen
- Debbie Ou
- Liver Lilies, Yellow
- Echo
- Ricardo Pau-Llosa
- Christ in the Wilderness: The Hen (1954)
- Charlotte Pence
- Heredity
- Ross Peters
- Proctors Hall Promontory
- Lizzy Petersen
- “52 Yellow Cat”
- Jeffrey Peterson
- Illeism
- Epicurism
- Leanna Petronella
- Beached
- Nicholas Pierce
- Valediction at Lake Livingston
- Saara Myrene Raappana
- Heroic Origin
- Doug Ramspeck
- Smoke Dress
- Chelsea Rathburn
- The Corinthian Women
- In the Shower, My Daughter Studies My Naked Form
- Mira Rosenthal
- People Bring Us Flowers
- Austin Segrest
- Björklunden
- Amanda Shires
- Autumn Tritina
- R. T. Smith
- Kettle
- Photo of Frost
- Gary Soto
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Lisa Russ Spaar
- Soupbone Madrigal
- Copperhead Madrigal
- Eleanor Stanford
- Lepidoptera of the Diamond Highlands
- Kathryn Starbuck
- Roofless
- Rawdon Tomlinson
- Each time I break
- Pimone Triplett
- Real Estate
- Supply Chain
- Jay Udall
- Where It Begins
- Laura Van Prooyen
- Head of Clover
- Ryan Vine
- Altar Boy
- Mark Wagenaar
- Appalachian Vowels
- G. C. Waldrep
- Tübingen
- Chet Weise
- Endless Summer
- Ryan Wilson
- Lemons
- Catherine Wing
- Sea-Change
- Cecilia Woloch
- La Mer
- Chad Abushanab