Table of Contents
At Edith’s Ranch Along… 1 Jeffrey Alfier
Menagerie: A 40th Birthday Poem 2 Lea Aschkenas
The Wild Chattooga River… 3 Frederick W. Bassett
A Late Spring 4 Robert Brickhouse
Girl with Sparrows 5 Noel Conneely
Muget des Bois 6 Jane Craven
What Names the Moon Gives 7 Noah Davis
With Nothing Between Us… 8 Todd Davis
Echolalia 9 Christine DeSimone
As the Crow Flies 10 Jeff Ewing
At Ghost Ranch 11 Doris Ferleger
Imitations of Adulthood 13 Laura Foley
License to Fly 14 Dorinda Hale
Christmas Card 16
The Hour’s Poem 17 Gregory Hischak
Twilight Venus 18 Kathryn Jospé
“Hoping to hear from you” 19 Athena Kildegaard
Before the Fall 20
Preventing Implantation 21 Meredith Stewart Kirkwood
The Widow’s Handbook 22 Sharon Rose Kourous
Corn Mother 23 Nan Lundeen
Istanbul Moments 24 Agnes Meadows
Wednesday 26
The Potato: Splitting a Small Fry… 28 Matthew Mendoza
On Playing Scales… 29 John O’Dell
signs of god and art in barcelona 30 Tamra Plotnick
Desolations of March 31 Tom Raithel
She Was Not Medea 32 Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Tikkun Olam 33
Nativity 34 Tori Sharpe
This Is Not Another Poem… 35 Jane Simpson
TriBeCa 1993 36 Rosanne Smith
Van Gogh to Whitman 37 Richard Marx Weinraub
On Being Told: You Must Learn… 38 John Sibley Williams
Their Humming 39 Marty Williams
NEW ZEALAND 41 International Feature Section
Introduction 43 Ivy Alvarez
There’s birds in the family 45 Serie Barford
my mother darned the windsock 46 kerrin p. sharpe
Memorial Service 47 Emma Neale
Ahakoa he iti he pounamu 48 Louise Wallace
Whale and barnacles 49 Anna Jackson
Flood 52 Janet Newman
Like daily bread 53 Piet Nieuwland
A Contemplation of Girls 55 Laurice Gilbert
Stop/move 56 Jamie Trower
KAHUWHAKAMARUMARUWAIRUA 58 Robynanne Milford
I am the child 60 Jeni Curtis
we dreamed her 61 Rosalie Liu
The Model Bakery 62 Michelle Elvy
sneezing among the ashes 63 Keith Nunes
The needlework, the polishing 64 Sue Wootton
Queen Auckland 65 Sue Fitchett
Three is a double date… 67 Ya-Wen Ho
Initiation 69 Karen Zelas
cartographies I 70 Makyla Curtis
Plunge tectonic 71 Ivy Alvarez
Like a queen 72 Chris Tse
White pearls, hanging ears 74 Nicola Easthope
Token 76 Claire Orchard
A letter to Shu Hoong 77 bernadette hall
The mothers of the mothers… 78 Frankie McMillan
City Rise 79 Alison Wong
Fire! 80 Jan FitzGerald
Broken Song 81 Raewyn Alexander
TED TALK 82 Murray Edmond
Kiwiana 83 Julia Charity
An obsession with isolation 84 Gail Ingram
Reputation 85 Carin Smeaton
Credit Control 86 Erena Johnson
Being Born 89 Rata Gordon
The Archives 90 Tony Beyer
Blake 93 Vaughan Rapatahana
Interlude 94 Kiri Piahana-Wong
Birdsongs 95 Piers Davies
Requiem 98 Janis Freegard
Closer now 99 John Dennison
[there is a house that we are in] 100 Gregory Kan
Claiming the land 101 Alexandra Fraser
Mydriatic: 103 Elizabeth Morton