Spring/ Summer 2007
Table of Contents
General Contributors
- Crossing Over, Cheryl Gatling
- Halloween Candy, Amit Majmudar
- Inkwell, Robert King
- Ants in My Driveway, Amit Majmudar
- The Exhortation of the Pigeon God, Michael Spence
- At the Bird Store, James Doyle
- In My Office:Â a poem fully annotated by the author, Matthew Sisson
- Office Lunch, Cheryl Gatling
- Dating, Susan G. Duncan
- The Old Salt’s Song, Diana Pinckney
- The Mermaid’s Daughter, Diana Pinckney
- Stormy Day at South Beach, Ron De Maris
- Everything But You, Robert Parham
- The Writer in Residence, Joan Colby
- Tag, S. Brady Tucker
- More Things Olivia Brings, S. Brady Tucker
- Questions, Steven Rood
- Begging Bowl, David Denny
The Poetry of Iraq
- Introduction, Sadek R. Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Haider Al-Kabi
- A Present, Jamal Mustafa
- The Heart of a Woman, Lateef Helmet
- God’s Money, Adnan Al-Saiq
- Night Prayers, Adnan Al-Saiq
- Bag of Bones, Dunya Mikhail
- The Statue, Abdul Razaq Al-Rubaiee
- Bombardment, Haider Al-Kabi
- Seven Attempts to Portray Mr. President, Soheil Najm
- The Execution of an Executioner, Hanadi Al-Nassar
- The prey, Adil Abdullah
- Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic, Abdul Razaq Al-Rubaiee
- That Is My Life, Adam Hatem
- When he eploded, Salam Dawai
- The Spindle, Hashem Shafeeq
- The Needle, Hashem Shafeeq
- A Drop, Reem Qais Kubba
- From Her Book, Ahmed Asheikh
- Illusory Village, Khalil Al-Asadi
- Brine on the Wings of Seagulls, Abd Al-Hassan Al-Shathr
- We Are Not Dead, Munthir Abdul-Hur
- The King of Sorrows, Abdul-Khaliq Keitan
- A country out of work, Adil Abdullah
- Flour Below Zero, Kareem Shugaidil
- A Wheat Seed, Kareem Shugaidil
- An Attempt at Music, Adeeb Kamaludin
- Croaking, Abdul-Kareem Kasid
- The Mirror of the Eye, Saad Jasim
- Creation, Ali Al-Imarah
- Calendar, Ali Al-Imarah
- More than One, Less than Two, Sabah Khattab
- Doors, Perplexity, Iraq, Adnan Al-Saiq
- The Black Box, Jamal Mustafa
- Strange and lonely child, Rasmiah Meheibis Zair
- The Transient Things, Ra’ad Abdulqadir
- My Brother’s War, Taleb Abd Al-Aziz
- The Hanging Gardens of Death, Ali Abdulameer
- Oh Humanity, Ali Al-Bazaz
General Contributors, con’t
- A Letter from Poland, John Guzlowski
- In Krakow, James Davis May
- Holding Her, Sharon Fein
- Through the Lens, October, Sharon Fein
- Lobby Stone, Melissa Peters
- Strawberries, Brigit Truex
- Ode to Letterpress, Jim Daniels
- On Ether, Lance Larsen
- Voice, Lance Larsen
- The Milk of the Mountain Goats, Chris Waters
- Sky Market, John Randall
- Taq Kasra, M.A. Schaffner
- How to Make Plum Dumplings, Ronda Broach
- Reunion, HeatherLeigh Johnson
- Old Man and Nurse, Melissa Crowe
- Love’s Lexicon, Dane Cervine
- The Night My Father Died, Carl Auerbach
- The Wayward Marl, Mary Alexandra Agner
- Votive at an Open Window, Jeff O’Brien
- Pythagoras’s Flowering Heart, Lee Slonimsky
- yes I say outspread, Kathleen Spivack