Issue 65, 2009
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Craft Interview:David Shapiro
Editorial:Part III - The Torch is Passed
Articles, Features, and Photos:
Articles, Features, and Photos:
"Taking the Pulse of Contemporary Poetry Today" by Melanie Lynn Moro-Huber; "A Conversation with Barney Rosset" by Linda Tieber; plus memorials for Dave Church, W. D. Snodgrass, and John Updike

POET TITLE
David Shapiro   IN
  THE CHERRY BLOSSOM PROOF
  THE NEW SONG
Grace Zabriskie   ZOOMINOOSHA
Fred Yannantuono   CALENDRICAL
Dennis Bernstein   DIRTY POOL
Bruce Weigl   THE END OF MY CAREER IN DANCE
Marge Piercy   WHEN THE FLOOR DISSOLVES
Bob Hicok   CONTRIB NOTES
Ted Jonathan   REGINA EINHORN
Christine Ann Cuccio   MARY'S MARYS
William Meyer, Jr.   A DRINK OF WATER BEFORE I DIE
Mather Schneider   DESTINY OF A CAB DRIVER
Dorianne Laux   HOW WE WERE: A LULLABY
Justin Marks   TWENTY-FIVE HOURS IN ICELAND
Mark Bibbins   THE DEVIL YOU DON'T
Iris Lee   VISITING MY CONEY ISLAND HOME
Carol Hamilton   YO/I
Katherine M. Hedeen   GEOMITRIES, 8
Jesús Munárriz   GEOMITRIAS, 8
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez   GEOMITRIES, 8
Jayne Lyn Stahl   NO SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENT
Donald Lev   ON THE FILM SOPHIE SCHOILL: THE FINAL DAYS
Shya Scanlon   I'M PATH, PATH-WORK, A RIGOROUS UNDOING
Tony Gloeggler   MID LIFE POETRY CRISIS
Christopher Cunningham   A TIME OF REST
Ira Joe Fisher   A FINISH
melissa christine goodrum   OBJECT
Douglas Treem   CAROLE'S BOYFRIEND
Yvonne Lieblein   CROSSING MONTANA
Mukoma Wa Ngugi   I SWEAR I SEE SKULLS COMING
Eileen Hennessy   FOR TIMES OF WAR, A SONG
Jackie Sheeler   GLORIA'S STORIES
Lisa Palma   LUNCH DATE
Eric Gansworth   RECEPTION
Bruce Ducker   I WATCH YOU SLEEP
Lyn Lifshin   TWINS IN AUSCHWITZ
Tom Benediktsson   FIRST NIGHT IN TEXAS
Tom C. Hunley   ISM-ISM
Jim Daniels   NO DICK/DICK
Gordon Massman   1672
Michael Lee Phillips   THE HIERARCHAL BINARIES OF RON JEREMY
Jim Reese   THIS HAVELOCK
Robert Simon   COFFEEMAN
Scott Odom   FRANK
Mary Dezember   THE TRUTH
Franz Douskey   BLUEBERRY-FLAVORED MORPHINE
William Baer, Jr.   SEASIDE HEIGHTS
Kim Bridgford   THE GLASS SLIPPERS
Andrés Rodríguez   EVERYTHING IS DARK
Scott Bailey   HALLOWS
Trey Conatser   LEAP, FROG,
Andrew Kaufman   ASSISTED LIVING
Jennifer Banash   WHITE RIBBONS
Elisavietta Ritchie   TABULA RASA
A. D. Winans   71 GOING ON 72
Matt Zambito   WHITE LIGHT WHITE STARS
Luke Johnson   ROARING RUN FURNACE
Norman Stock   WALLACE STEVENS IN QUEENS
Yoon Sik Kim   COLLECTION OF HAIKUS
Fred Yannantuono   CANINE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR PALINDROME
Cathryn Cofell   THE PLIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS SUGAR...
Leslieann Hobayan   CRANBERRY WINTER DANCES
Lynne Savitt   LUZ GARCIA'S HALF MOON OVER...
Thomas Rockwell   OUT OF HER MIND
Monique Ferrell   FINGER...FOR WOMEN WHO SURVIVE
Shelley Stenhouse   SNOW DAY
Andrea Adam Brott   BEST FRIENDS
David James   VIEW OF A PAIR
Traci Clark   CRIMSON
Christopher Goodrich   TO THE WOMAN WHOSE NOSE RAN INTO...
Charity Henderson   WHEN THE ANGEL CAME
Laurence Loeb   AFTER THAWS
Susan Denning   O MY MECHANICAL HEART
Terence Winch   OBJECTS OF SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE
Liz Kicak   PANIC ATTACK AT 2:17 AM
Susan Scutti   HYMN
Dave Church   VISITING AN OLD LOVER
Rynn Williams   MAGIC KINGDOM
R. D. Coleman   AFTER DYLAN
Antler   HORIZONTAL ICICLES
Caroline Conway   PARENTHETICALS OF PLACE
Sampson Starkweather   THE SURFACE OF THE UNDERGROUND
Marlene Rosen Fine   WHEN I WAS TEN
Matthew Zapruder   from "TWENTY POEMS FOR NOELLE"
Savonna Smith   JUST US
Emanuel diPasquale   AURORA, GOD'S WINGS
Justin Scupine   GOOD AND GREAT
Ryan Crawford   I'M TOO FRIGHTENED TO KNOW
Anne Elliott   NATIVES
Linda Tieber   WHAT HAPPENED AT THE TOP...
Jeff Grimshaw   POEM ABANDONED IN PANIC...
Nancy Carol Moody   ALOFT: ONE GODS PERSPECTIVE
Stephen Stepanchev   BAGHDAD BLUES
Hedy Habra   THEY BELIEVED EVERYTHING I SAID
Hari Bhajan Khalsa   SOME DAYS
William Taylor, Jr.   THE SAME FIRE
EJ Miller Laino   PICTURE US
John McKernan   BELIEVABLE DREAMS
Gerald Locklin   VANESSA BELL
Tim McLoughlin   SENATOR STREET
Professor Arturo   BLOW, to Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
Peter Arcese   DEEPER THAN DANTE
Stephen S. Mills   THE SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW WHY...
Urayoán Noel   PUERTO RICAN PANTOUM
Steve Henn   TALKING AT SPIKE'S ABOUT A FRIEND...
April Puciata   MY FIRST IRISH WEDDING
Scott Weaver   ETYMOLOGY
Ulf Kirchdorfer   NO SHAME
John L. Stanizzi   WATCHES
Sharon Olinka   KILLING THE PIANO
Seth Abramson   SHAKE OUR HAND
Naomi Levine   REMEMBERING GRANDMA
Jason Tandon   LIGHT CATCHER
Christian Barter   THINGS I'VE FORGOTTEN