Table of Contents
General Contributors
- Small Talk, Catherine Tahmin
- The First Crush, Michael Meyerhofer
- The Judge, Robert Cooperman
- The Chocolate Factory, Janet Jennings
- Master of Chocolates, Mary Soon Lee
- Deviant Dandelions, Richard Schiffman
- Jackson Hole, Years Later, Irene O’Garden
- Hiking in Switzerland, Jean Hollander
- Equilibrium, Brieghan Gardner
- The Little Dog Upstairs, Kim Addonizio
- Devotion, Suzanne Roberts
- Ode at Twenty-One Weeks, Christine Stewart-Nuñez
- Donna Sleeps, Vernita Hall
- Mother’s Day Gift, Susan Cohen
- Care Package, Jeff Crandall
- The Scream, John N. Miller
- The Wail of the Banshee, Sarah Kennedy
- The Captive, Marjorie Mir
- The Ruin at Pompeii, Sarah Kennedy
- Planting Garlic, E.P. Schultz
- Cotton, Rex Easley
- Trout Moon, Marc Harshman
Poetry 2009 International Competition
- The Maître Fromager, Melanie Drane
- Tuscany Dawn, William Doreski
- Breakfast at Mykonos, Amy Dengler
- For Lhasa, Diana Woodcock
- Angola, 2002, Sharon Fain
- Light Into Light, Michelle Maher
- Horses on the Elk River, Ron De Maris
- Osprey Sushi, Ron De Maris
- Map Lag, William Keener
- Living in Michigan, Christine Rhein
- Ria, Remembering, Christine Rhein
- On a Korean Jar, Steve Lautermilch
- Garlic, Christopher Buehlman
- Standing Firm, Bob Schildgen
- Meatloaf, Laurel J. Black
- Haying:Â June 12, Laura Grace Weldon
- on the opening of the earth, Simon Peter Eggertsen
- My Daughter as Dominatrix, Jennifer Perrine
- Approaching the Actual, Kelly Vande-Plasse
- His First Death, Rebecca Foust
- The Poetry Reading, 1982, Gloria Masterson-Richardson
- The River in Winter, Gloria Masterson-Richardson
- Holding Hands, Robert Barasch
- Gacela of the Bright Omen, Mark Wagenaar
- It’s not the light, Mary Dowd
- I Will Wobble up a Crooked Street, Mary Frith
- Message for a Time Capsule, Pamela Porter
- Harry Houdini’s Eulogy, Bill Meissner
- Why Professor Gao Sings, Claire Hsu Accomando
- On Those Joshua Tree Plains, Margaret J. Hoehn
- Something is Cracking, Margaret J. Hoehn
- A Photograph is Locking Its Doors, Margaret J. Hoehn
- Photograph, Germany, 1970, Jude Nutter
- Grip, Michael Lee Phillips
Additional General Contributors
- Resolve, Elizabeth Volpe
- Waiting for Bear, Jamie Morewood Anderson
- Myotis Lucifugus, Bill Brown
- Alternate Sources of Fuel, Matthew Olzmann
- Virginia Beach, Linda M. Fischer
- Tongues, Ann E. Michael
- Race for the Moon, Teresa Haskew
- New Horizons, Turner Cassity
- The Lion and the Gnat, Jean de la Fontaine
- My Frangipani Tree, Christopher Woodman
- Bad Haircut:Â A Concise History, Dan Memmolo
- The Glass Ceiling, Harold Whit Williams
- Master Mechanic, Angelo Giambra
- Song of the Seamstress, Angelo Giambra
- Carolos, Christine Poreba
- Indispensable, Roger Craik
- Homecoming, Günter Kunert
- Monologue, Günter Kunert
- German Elegy, Günter Kunert
- the second time, Jan Ball
- Prison View, Ace Boggess
- The True Blues, Peter Sipchen
- Listening to Rutter, Peter Munro
- Chestnut, Rebecca Baggett