September 2006
Stas Orlovski, "Head with Birds," 2003- Anne Stevenson
- D. Powell
- Michael Heffernan
- Paisley Rekdal
- Natalie Shapero
From this Issue
Poem
Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse
between one rough dream and another, I seemed,
still awake, to be stranded on a stony path,
and there the familiar enigma presented itself
in the shape of a little trembling lamb.
It was lying like...
between one rough dream and another, I seemed,
still awake, to be stranded on a stony path,
and there the familiar enigma presented itself
in the shape of a little trembling lamb.
It was lying like...
Poem
even the business of dying must be set aside occasionally. glaucous-winged gulls drafting
the last ferry across the bay: lights of the city growing more luminous, more inviting
who could have guessed love's a palpable thing: a dark splotch of kelp in...
the last ferry across the bay: lights of the city growing more luminous, more inviting
who could have guessed love's a palpable thing: a dark splotch of kelp in...
Poem
The whole day I hung around in the sky over Russia
was a Wednesday in October. No one looked up
with any semblance of regard from the heroic Russian people.
I had always wanted to visit the back streets
of Omsk,...
was a Wednesday in October. No one looked up
with any semblance of regard from the heroic Russian people.
I had always wanted to visit the back streets
of Omsk,...
Table of Contents
Poems
- Anne Stevenson
- D. A. Powell
- Michael Heffernan
- Paisley Rekdal
- Natalie Shapero
- Peter Kline
- Galway Kinnell
- Kevin McFadden
- Christopher Middleton
- Christine Garren
- Linda Bierds
- BJ Ward
- Jacob Polley
- Molly McQuade
Comment
- John Barr
- Adam Kirsch
- Dan Chiasson
Letters
- David Woo
- A. F. Moritz
- Michael Derrick Hudson
- James Reiss
- Barbara Armstrong Klein
- Timothy Pickering
- Marit J. MacArthur
- Jayanta Mahapatra
- Ina Loewenberg
- Loren Keller
- Ned Condini
- Charles Thomas
- Michael Forster
- Michael H. Brownstein
- Jason Guriel
CONTRIBUTORS
- John Barr
- Linda Bierds
- Michael H. Brownstein
- Dan Chiasson
- Ned Condini
- Michael Forster
- Christine Garren
- Jason Guriel
- Michael Heffernan
- Michael Derrick Hudson
- Loren Keller
- Galway Kinnell
- Adam Kirsch
- Barbara Armstrong Klein
- Peter Kline
- Ina Loewenberg
- Marit J. MacArthur
- Jayanta Mahapatra
- Kevin McFadden
- Molly McQuade
- Christopher Middleton
- A. F. Moritz
- Timothy Pickering
- Jacob Polley
- D. A. Powell
- James Reiss
- Paisley Rekdal
- Natalie Shapero
- Anne Stevenson
- Charles Thomas
- BJ Ward
- David Woo