Poetry 1996

Table of Contents

General Contributors

  • Quarry Stars, Pam Bernard
  • The Bookmobile, Joyce Sutphen
  • Home, Pramila Venkateswaran
  • The Translator, Miriam Finkelstein
  • Glossary–Po Valley, Anita Olachea Bucci
  • A Painting of West Berlin, Peter Bakowski
  • In the human night, Peter Bakowski
  • I would like to know why…, Juan Gelman
  • Meeting the Buddha near Bangalore, Hans Stahlschmidt
  • Forbidden Stitch, Helen G. Reed
  • The Fragility of Flowers, T. Clayton Wood
  • Labors of the Hand, Eugenio de Andrade
  • Born out of Wenlock? The Modern Olympics and A Shropshire Lad (ESSAY), A.E. Stallings
  • Buckshot Roberts:  the Mattress, Arthur Winfield Knight
  • St. John of the Cross, Robert Brown
  • The Old Slow Swirl, Wanita Zumbrunnen
  • The First Brush, Ha Jin
  • Ascent, Ha Jin
  • Ars Poetica, Macky McCleary
  • Learning to Dance, Thomas Rain Crowe

Poetry International Competition 1996

  • Lilting, R.T. Smith (THIRD PRIZE)
  • The Body Burners, Shannon Hamann (SECOND PRIZE)
  • A Trick, Steve Kowit (FIRST PRIZE)

Artwork

  • Golden Bamboo (ink drawing), Douglas G. Campbell
  • Lilies (ink drawing), Douglas G. Campbell
  • Ferns (ink drawing), Douglas G. Campbell
  • Devil’s Walking Stick (inkdrawing), Douglas G. Campbell

General Contributors, con’t

  • Pets, Florence Trefethen
  • A Dream of Wilderness, Florence Trefethen
  • Beetles, Steve Kowit
  • the bugs, David Michaels
  • King Kong, You Is, David Michaels
  • My Woman Now, Louis Phillips
  • Test Poet, Louis Phillips
  • The Mad Gardener’s Song (FICTION), Louis Phillips
  • Pharaoh’s Horse Trainer, Rob Carney
  • In Wild Matrimony, Peter E. Murphy
  • Failed Explorations, Robert Cooperman
  • Nobody’s Hell, Douglas Goetsch
  • The Forest of My Hair, James Tolan
  • Children in Church, Susan Blackwell Ramsey
  • The Clothes Make the Poet, Seaborn Jones
  • Struggle, Mark Stuart Terrill
  • Days of 1995, Daniel Tobin
  • Dream, Juliet Kaufmann
  • The Tease, Nancy Breen
  • Coming Home, Rene Ribant
  • Family Matters, Elisavietta Ritchie
  • The River God, Virginia Ottley Craighill
  • Sitting in a Brokedown Convertible Somewhere in Rural Alabama, Perry Lee
  • Greenheart, Maureen Micus Crisick
  • America, Jane B. Rawlings
  • Rooting for the Cleveland Indians in the ’50’s, Karen Torop