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 and Teacher Reuniting with Twelve Students at a Restaurant
Chip Livingston Poem^x (that I thought broke my heart)
Charles Sand Sister’s Song and Ballad of an Ass Treading Toward an Angel
Tom Lombardo Sun Cloud Night Dawn
Charles Wyatt Haspenald, Maffle, and Dittology
Olivia Clare The Beaten Brothers
Jona Colson Doctor to Patient
Molly Kugel First Night in the Palace and History of Shell
Heather Hamilton Shark and Desert Flying: Algeria, 1942 [read]
F. J. Bergmann Reflecting
Kathleen Cochran Approximate Wait Time Will Be and Companion
K. Edwards High Times [read]
Charles Baudelaire (translated by James McColley Eilers) “La Beauté” (“Beauty”)
Pablo Medina At the Blue Note and The Highway of Blazing Cars [read]
Susan Browne Zephyr and Mandolin
Christopher Bakken 17.xi.07 and Vise
Erinn Batykefer Before You Wake [read]
W. S. Di Piero The Light Box and The Big Beach Book
Hailey Leithauser The Moon Speaks of the Lives of the Caesars
Robert Schultz (photographs by Binh Danh) Transmigrations
Devon Jackson UXOs
Anne Shaw Hobble
T. Zachary Cotler No Coincidence and At Keats Grove, Hampstead [read]
Aimee Nezhukumatathil The Secret of Soil
David Kirby Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Carrie Jerrell Big Daddy [read]
Michael Loughran Letters to Noelle and What We Need the Most Will Be at First Refused
Sara Pennington “S” and “M” from The Primer of Zinnie Lucas: An Abecedarium
Timothy O’Keefe If Palinurus and 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 and Charles & Emma
Paige Hill Starzinger Border Land
Ellen Goldstein The Pleiades: Electra
Amanda Carver Whatever It Is and 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 and Cul-de-sac
Kathleen Hellen Optimism: The Pikesville cheerleaders before the game
Terri Witek Walking Fertile
Joanna Preston Breaking Up
Claudia Burbank Opera
Rich Lyons As an Espionage Film with Subtitles
Kate Angus I Will Begin Tagging “Sad Robot Inc.” . . . and Thank You Again, Brooklyn, for the Free Coffee
Mihaela Moscaliuc Dreaming in Romanian
Stephen Kampa Upon Finishing Don Juan [read] and The Reclamation of Paradise
David Wolff Green Heron [read]

Two People Threatened by an Alligator
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