Poetry 2004

 

Table of Contents

General Contributors

  • At the Coronation of My Son, Gil Minor
  • Six Verses in Search of a Church, Rob Carney
  • The Book of the Living, Rob Carney
  • The Tidewater Motel, Charles Barasch
  • Island Loves, Paul Hostovsky
  • Bagpiper Among the Geese, Paul Hostovsky
  • A Level Space, Sandy Fontana
  • Sunrise Practice, Tom Hansen
  • Between Lives, Margaret Holley
  • Blind Date, Suzanne Lang
  • Filling Holes, Kristen Berkey-Abbott
  • Ode to a Horn Worm, Celia Stuart-Powles
  • Limón, Maureen Tolman-Flannery
  • Exploring Mars, Marjorie Mir
  • The Old Days Last Week, Robert King
  • Geology of the Western Interior, Robert King
  • Write a poem they say, Sharron Singleton
  • Grief, Nora McGillen
  • 2500 Nebulae, Sharron Singleton
  • Mary Seacole, Joanne Lowery
  • The Identification of Jeremy Brett, Evan Rail
  • Artist “Anon”, Maria Terrone
  • Explaining the Orchestra, Carol V. Davis
  • Apotheosis of Jerry Lee Lewis, Kathy Knuckles Barbour
  • Silent Movie with Vulture, Frederick Farryl Goodwin
  • Mirror, Hsien Min Toh
  • Failing and Failing Again, Kerry O’Keefe
  • While Observing a Groundhog, Michael Fessler
  • The Goddess in Autumn, Anne McGrath Hochberg
  • October in Vermont, Lisa Sitkin
  • Whiteout, Joan Stern
  • First Snow, New Year’s Eve, David Gravender

Poetry International Competition 2004

  • Snowfall, Hilary Orbach
  • Awake Among the Pines, Margaret J. Hoehn
  • Reading Silently for the First Time, Andrea Potos
  • Sestina for my Daughters, Prartho M. Sereno
  • Latin Was My Language of Love, Gwen North
  • 13 Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens, Erin Murphy
  • Assistant Professor, red hawk
  • Soldiers Home, Sherman Pearl
  • In Sweeden:  2002, Wanda S. Praisner
  • After the Diagnosis, Lori Davis
  • The Survey, Judith Hemschemeyer
  • Washing the Steps, Len Roberts
  • Basmati, Amy Dengler
  • The Taste of Apples, Lauren K.  Alleyne
  • waiting for an answer, Debra Grace Khattab
  • World’s Body, Richard Brostoff
  • Frump Femme Fatale,  Marian Wilson
  • Gourds, Robert A. Faguet
  • Last Bus to Paradiso, Ruth Bavetta
  • Liberace Ruined My Life, Tom Smith
  • Dallas, 1963, Peter Serchuk
  • Elk, Douglas  Lawder
  • Moment Musical, Lynn Tudor Deming
  • Concert, Marie Chambers
  • Fine Lines, Maureen McQuerry
  • Only Muntin Poem in the World, Timothy Walsh

Special Feature Section, edited by Memye Curtis Tucker

  • Introduction, Memye Curtis Tucker
  • Not Only Parallel Lines, Jane Hirschfield
  • To Envy:  An Assay, Jane Hirschfield
  • Ryoanji:  An Assay, Jane Hirschfield
  • Virginia Reel, Kelly Cherry
  • The Truth, Kelly Cherry
  • To a Fellow Graduate Student, Kelly Cherry
  • Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Kelly Cherry
  • Bracken, Stan Sanvel Rubin
  • After Christmas, Stan Sanvel Rubin
  • “The Truth of the Darkness”:  a Conversation with Marvin Bell (INTERVIEW), Stan Sanvel Rubin
  • Guidance We Have Need Of, Coleman Barks
  • The Grandeur of Annihilation, Star Black
  • Inherent, Star Black
  • How We Learned to Hold Hands, Matthea Harvey
  • Slump, Naomi Shihab Nye
  • What You Cannot Remember, Alicia Ostriker
  • Wilderness, Alicia Ostriker
  • How Like a Son, Martin Lammon
  • Just Before Spring, Robert W. Hill
  • Verna, R.T. Smith
  • Timber Ridge Chivaree, R.T. Smith