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Volume 89, Numbers 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022)
Contents
In Memoriam: Donald Junkins
The Editors
Special Section on Literature in Translation
Introduction to A Special Section on Translation
Melissa Birkhofer
The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes
Tatiana Ţîbuleac (Translated by Jozefina Komporaly)
Children
My unfinished poem
Spartakos Anagnostaras
May I?
A Rainy Day
Dmitry Blizniuk (Translated by Sergey Gerasimov)
New York, 1968
Fifth Avenue, New York
But How Much Longer!
Because . . .
The New Greeks
Outburst
Doros Loizou (Translated by Peter J. King and Andrea Christofidou)
First Voice
Chuchu’
Heart of a river
Tatuch
Footprints
Juana Peñate Montejo (Translated by Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Milholland Friedman)
Unpublished Haikus
Drunkness of poetry
Jaime Pérez González
Introduction to the Poetry of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy
Richard Prins
Go Beat On the Hive
All of It Dies Inside You
What Is Mine Is Yours
My Dinghy
The Donkey Breeder
Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy (Translated by Richard Prins)
Introduction to the Poetry of María Concepción Bautista Vázquez
Sean Sell
I am a traveler
Quiet time
Misty sky
The song of the souls
Salute
María Concepción Bautista Vázquez (Translated by Sean Sell)
What I Wrote About
Judita Šalgo (Translated by John K. Cox)
Fiction
Ophelia’s Understudy
Ross West
Saga of the Past-Life Debutants
Seth Brady Tucker
Consumption
Carolyn Oliver
Drone
Shane Castle
Essays
Brownout, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Jules Fitz Gerald
Talismans
Erica Goss
For Autumn
Autumn Farmer
Ymir’s Blood
Sarah Beck
Review
The Black Hero’s Journey: A Review of Colin in Black and White
Eric Burin
Poetry
The Countenance Is Upon Us
Millicent Accardi
Matter
Anne Dyer Stuart
Merry-go-round
Tabbitha Erceg
Quiet Attire
Cameron Lovejoy
Kansas
Natalie Callum
Biomath
John Grey
Pitchfork
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Passing Judgment
Peter Imsdahl
Peacock Flat
Marc Janssen
I’m Listening
Zarah Parker
Yard Work
Wade Fox
Time is another river
Poetry near you
Merie Kirby
Passages
Shoulder To Shoulder
Ken Holland
Untitled
Trevian J. Hunter
Entertaining Physics in War
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
The Gravity of Flight
When Sleep Won’t Come
Margo Davis
We All Fall Down
William R. Stoddart
Unguided Mission
Inertia
Robert Pegel
Fashion Statement
Fred Pollack
Comfort Food, And Not
Pan-demic Of Quesadillas
Our Merry Tradition, Tradition
Wrongly Papered-Over Anniversary
Personal Plus Political Arcs
Gerard Sarnat
Becoming Bulletproof
Debbie K. Trantow
Unforgiven, I Wake to A Burning City, Minneapolis, May 28, 2020
An April Morning in Self Quarantine
Patrick Cabello Hansel 000
Poem with a Little Help from B.B. King
Daye Phillippo
Guinea Pigs
Kim Roberts
Perturbation Midnight
Terry Brinkman
The Day My Son Learns About Death
Recital
Katy Luxem
A Prison Farm Spoons with Oxbow Lakes
Coronavirus Diary Redux
Angela Ball
Showers & Rain
Death Certificates
Michael Lee Johnson
Morning Sky
Change
Charlene Langfur
Apnea in the Land of Pandemic
Small World
Robert S. King
Bittersweet
If the Shoe Fits
Bonnie Larson Staiger
Patriaiotor
Homecoming
Daniel Aristi
Privilege
Robbie Gamble
flag
w.w. harris
Can We All Get Along?
A girl
A shopkeeper
Videotapes
Along
Patti Kameya
Tent City
Cole W. Williams
The Code of George
Hire a Veteran
Richard Cecil
Vanishing Points
Jeffrey Thompson
March 8, 2019
An Atheist No More
Baseball Enlightenment
On an Old Ballplayer Getting Back in Shape
Palimpsest
Baseball Sestina
John Poff
Baseball Time
Barry Harris
BK
Empty
Robert L. Penick
Fast Food
Anna Kavanaugh
Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring
Kenneth Pobo
swinging
Kevin Neal
First Date
Erik Moyer
In Life, There Is Always an Endgame
Ann Christine Tabaka
We ask wedding guests to wear flats
Beth Oast Williams
Mornings Without Coffee
Man on Twitter Who Isn’t Your Friend
Cyndie Zikmund
The Window
Sam Rose Preminger
when my mother ironed
Sunburn
Susan Triemert
Symmetry
Tom Barlow
Rumors of Abandonment
Red Shirt
Beverly Burch
The Funeral Diviner
Rebecca Lilly
I Never Do This
Headline
Gloria Parker
Pack the Weight
Man Pickup
Diane Webster
Parallel Play
A Bit of Mould
Richard Brancato
Whitetip Sharks Below Cargo Pier
Jojo Morelli
You Don’t Want to Be a River
William Doreski
The Road Becomes a River
Brendan Stermer
Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy
The Recluse
Jane Blanchard
Rediscovering Poetry on My Day Off
Karen DeGroot Carter
Behold
Caleb Coy
Real Poems: A Rush from Each One I Flag
Rodney Torreson
I Looked for Sylvia in the Library
Alicia Caldanaro Wildfang
Reading Henry Vaughan
William Virgil Davis
We Are All Complicit
Oisín Breen
Honorary Darwin Award
Da Dragon In Me
Polynesians of Da North Atlantic
Joe Balaz
Prospecting
William Heath
Radha
S. Mitra
Red Light
Cameron Brooks
Editor
William Caraher
Fiction Editor
Gilad Elbom
Poetry Editor
Paul Worley
Assistant Poetry Editor
Kelsey Woodburn
Nonfiction Editor
Sheila Liming
Art Editor
Ryan Stander
Book Review Editor
Sharon Carson
Copyeditor
Andrea Herbst
Editorial Board
Eric Burin
David Haeselin
Andrew Harnish
Joseph Kalka
Adam Kitzes
James Mochoruk
Sheryl O’Donnell
Richard Rothaus
Brian Schill
Kate Sweney
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