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• “The Teller on the Right” by John Oliver Hodges
• THE SECOND QUESTION by Diana Der-Hovanessian
• “Dressing Room Without Curtains” by Cheryl Dellasega
• “All-Consuming” by Maggie Greene
• HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke
• “Torching the Playhouse” by Mark D. Hart
• SOME NIGHTS NO CARS AT ALL by Josh Rathkamp
• “Sky Stays the Same” by Marsha Smith Janson
• “Conga! at the Rio” by Veneta Masson
• “A Poem for Valentine’s Day” by Aseem Kaul
• “Prayer” by Keetje Kuipers
• Essay: “A Kind of Gift” by T.S. Davis
• “Being Jewish in a Small Town” by Lyn Lifshin
• IF NO MOON by Moira Linehan
• “Spin” by Alison Townsend
• “Love Song with Plum” by Diane Lockward
• “Fable Telling How Night Invented Herself Out of Sound” by Marty McConnell
• “Corner Store” by Brian Satrom
• MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE by Margaret Atwood
• “Of Unity and Wholeness” by Jay Udall
• “The Afterlife: In the Summer House” by Susanna Mishler
• “Stud Spray” by Peter Moore
• Essay: “Nursing and the Word” by Cortney Davis
• “Open House” by Allan Nicoletti
• “Nursing Note #8” by Sean Aden Lovelace
• “Not Knowing Better” by Barbara Paparazzo
• THE KNOT by Bruce Spang
• “Seven Simple Exercises…” by Tim Poland
• “Man, Boy, Dog” by Sophia Rivkin
• “Underground” by Lee Rossi
• TEETH by Aracelis Girmay
• “Amber” by Maya Jewell Zeller
• “Speculum Oris” by Patricia Smith
• “Homeland in an Old War” by Lianne Spidel
• MY FLORIDA by Kathleen Tyler
• “A Poet Is Supposed to…” by Alan Fox
• “First Love” by Damien Echols
• “Schoolgirls” by James Doyle
• “Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990” by Tracy Klein
• SO WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TIME OR by Sawako Nakayasu
• “The Sea Turtle” by Mary H. Palmer
• “Dad’s Report of a Tornado…” by Judy Schaefer
• “Ceremony” by Kelly Sievers
• “The Dark Miracle of Insomnia” by Jim Daniels
• HERE IN THE BIG EMPTY by Mark Sanders
• “Nails” by Kandie St.Germain
• “Stepmother” by Kendra L. Tanacea
• “Lost” by Christine Stewart-Nunez
• TALKING UNDERWATER by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
• Essay: “A Split Personality” by Anne Webster
• “Dry Drowning” by Anne Webster
• “The Traffic of Tulips” by S Stephanie
• DISCLAMOR by G.C. Waldrep
• “Her Brother’s Pickhole” by Kathleen Walsh Spencer
• 2008 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
• “Still Life” by Jessicca Daigle Vidrine
• WHAT LOVE COMES TO by Ruth Stone
• “Lessons” by Scott Weaver
• “Midwifing My Father” by Shawna Swetech
• “Howlin’ Moon” by Christine Wideman
• THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION by Larry D. Thomas
• “My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones” by Hilda Weiss
• “Miss Memory” by Jake Willard-Crist
• SCHOLARSHIP GIRL by Lesley Wheeler
• “Death, Again” by Mark Gibbons
• LICKING THE SPOON by Joanie Dimartino
• “On the Past” by Marvin Glasser
• “Rats” by Papa Osmubal
• “Watching the Bat” by Jeff Friedman
• “Bruises” by Mark Halperin
• THE HEADLESS SAINTS by Myronn Hardy
• “Vigilance” by Sam Hamill
• “Stray Instrument” by Claire Fields
• Two Poems by Patrick Ryan Frank
• “Why I Am Not a Scientist” by Robert Funge
• CREATION MYTHS by Mathias Svalina
• “Dangerous Blood IV” by Kate Gale
• “Home” by Bob Drojarski
• “Songs for Would-Be Suicides” by Jack Conway
• DEATH’S HOMELAND by Dragan Dragojlovic
• “Sterile” by Ash Bowen
• THEORIES OF FALLING by Sandra Beasley
• “Silk Woman” by Alan Fox
• “An Act of Procreation” by Frank Hughes
• DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust
• “To Levitate …” by Cathryn Essinger
• “Trip” by Arthur Gottlieb
• “On a Former Student’s Spread in Hustler Magazine” by Nathan Graziano
• EVEN THE HOLLOW MY BODY MADE IS GONE by Janice N. Harrington
• “Counting Coupons with the Italian Ladies” by Pam O’Brien
• “Sleep Over” by Jeff Vande Zande
• THE COUNTRY OF WOMEN by Sandra Kohler
• Essay: “What’s Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests” by David Alpaugh
• OLD MAN LAUGHING by Robert King
• “Conspiracy” by Sophia Rivkin
• “Stars and Stripes” by Catherine Wiley
• “Visitation Rites” by Ed Galing
• QUEEN OF A RAINY COUNTRY by Linda Pastan
• “Night Visitor” by Joyce La Mers
• “Hosanna to Life” by Fred Fox
• Two Poems by Leonard Nathan
• LEAVING IOWA by Michael Meyerhofer
• “Fallon, Nevada” by Juanita Miller
• BLUE RIBBONS AT THE COUNTY FAIR by Ellaraine Lockie
• “Drowning Poem” by Peter Ciccariello
• “Lovely Day” by Bob Hicok
• OCTOPUS by Tom Hunley
• “Moments” by J. Stiles Askew
• 2008 Pushcart Prize Nominees
• “Reproduction” by Bonnie Bolling
• “Autumn” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
• “Dougie’s Sister Exposes Herself” by Tony Trigilio
• DIVINE COMEDY: JOURNEYS THROUGH A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: THREE NEW WORKS by John Kinsella
• “The Preakness” by John Colasacco
• “Early Light” by Ian Finch
• “I” by Amy Sara Carroll
• FRENCH KISS DESTINY, THE DVD by Marvin R. Hiemstra
• “Expiration Date” by Michael Bazzett
• “The End and the Aim” by Ruth Bavetta
• Poetry Comics by Jessy Randall
• BEHIND MY EYES by Li-Young
• “Harvesting the Carrots” by Tom Boswell
• “The Periodic Table of the Elements” by Louis Phillips
• “Class Politics” by Kevin Clark
• “Inside this Next Vase, Likely” by Jennifer Boyden
• THE CLOCK MADE OF CONFETTI by Michael Salcman
• from A Conversation with Marvin Bell
• “Self-Portrait with Purple Erogenous Zones” by David Hage and Dan Waber
• “Shame Is the Dress I Wear” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• SWEETWATER, SALTWATER by Rosie King
• “The Johari Window” by Denise Duhamel
• “How to Write an Erotic Letter” by Anthony Farrington
• ODALISQUE by Mark Salerno
• Received for Review in December
• “To Be Alive” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
• WE MEET and THE WALKING-AWAY WORLD by Kenneth Patchen
• “I Am Anything” by Ruth Bavetta
• “Undercover” by Paul F. Cummins
• “Playground” by Dianne Carroll Burdick & Linda Nemec Foster
• THE DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM by Martha Serpas
• “Walden, Sprawl and All” by Kip Deeds
• “Strip Taze” by David Alpaugh
• “Five Stages of Grieving” by ellen
• ALABAMA STEVE by Karyna McGlynn
• “Boy w/ Joker” by Krista Franklin
• “The Driving Range” by Alejandro Escude
• “Coupling” by Alan Fox
• “The Town Drunk’s Last Stand” by Peter Funk
• TALL IF by Mark Irwin
• “Wheat State Salvation” by Paul Dickey
• “Western Michigan University, 1989” by Pamela Garvey
• “Please Hold” by Jonathan Wells
• “Elevated Findings” by Kip Deeds
• VOICES by Lucille Clifton
• “Halfway House for the Incoherent” by Jennifer Gresham
• “Letter to Hugo from Union Street” by Michael Jemal
• Received for Review in January
• “Show and Tell” by Bob Hicok
• “Red Fence” by Ellen Peckham
• THE QUESTION OF RAPTURE by Claire Keyes
• “Goats” by Allan Johnston
• “Hay Elote” by Michael Jon Khandelwal
• “The Dream of Trees” by Dianne Carroll Burdick & Linda Nemec Foster
• LOOKING FOR AN EYE by Peter Krok
• “Assisted Living” by Joy Gaines Friedler
• “My Grandfather’s 90th” by Jared Harel
• EXCHANGING LIVES by Damon McLaughlin
• “Claiming to Be Canadian” by Andrew Miller
• “On Attending a High School Graduation” by Joe Mills
• WAKING STONE by Carole Simmons Oles
• “Repairman” by Dave Morrison
• “Every Drunk Has a Passport” by Jason Nemec
• “Sonnets to Orpheus: Part 2 #13” by Rainer Maria Rilke
• ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania
• “LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH FROM WAR TIME…” by Timothy David Shea
• “The Loss of Lemons” by Chrys Tobey
• [one love affair]* by Jenny Boully
• Received for Review in February
• “The Making of History” by Ruth Bavetta
• “Space Monkey” by David Alpaugh
• Additional Pushcart Nominees
• A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Niki Nymark
• “Death and Tacos” by Nathaniel Whittemore
• “Nocturne with Cat and Spider” by Douglas Woody Woodsum
• “After My Third Tattoo” by Elizabeth Wurz
• THE WHITE BRIDE by Sarah Maclay
• “Origami” by Meg Yardley
• “You Might” by John Yohe
• “Dinner” by Pablo Garcia Casado
• “Built by Angels” by Krista Franklin
• WRONG by Laurie Blauner
• “The Perishable” by Jane Zwart
• “Castrati” by Sally Albiso
• “Can Slam Poetry Matter?” by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
• FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
• “Monarchs” by Caryn Lazzuri
• “Triptych” by John Amen
• “Mandate” by Roger Bonair-Agard
• “Midnight” by Shannon Amidon
• “Piraha” by Grace Bruenderman
• WILD WEST by Judith Rechter
• “Every Element is Relevant” by Marlon O. Carey
• “If to Say” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
• Received for Review in March
• UNDID IN THE LAND OF UNDONE by Lee Upton
• “The Day Jam Master Jay Died” by Kevin Coval
• “Two Bits” by Katie F-S
• “Eulogy of Jimi Christ” by Regie Gibson
• CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY by Alexa Mergen
• “The Service” by Trina Burke
• “What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andrés Gómez
• “To My Hair” by Alvin Lau
• AMERICA IS HIDING UNDER MY BED by Julia Vinograd
• “Loss and More Loss” by Gregory Orr and Trisha Orr
• “What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali
• “The Whole Chalupa” by Jack McCarthy
• “MODERN HISTORY: PROSE POEMS 1987-2007” by Christopher Buckley
• “On the Self and Others” by Gary Lehmann
• “The Edge” by Marco A. Domínguez
• THE BOATLOADS by Dan Albergotti
• “Aurora Borealis” by György Faludy
• “After the Bowling Stopped” by Thadra Sheridan
• LAWRENCE BOOTH’S BOOK OF VISIONS by Maurice Manning
• “I Wanted to Be” by Marc Kelly Smith
• “My Father’s Coat” by Marc Kelly Smith
• BUNDLE O’ TINDER by Rose Kelleher
• “When Girls Called” by Sam Pierstorff
• “Africa Party” by Charlene Fix
• HER PLACE IN THESE DESIGNS by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Convenience Stores” by Buddy Wakefield
• Received for Review in April
• “A Stewardess Smile” by Alan Fox
• “Insecticide” by Cassandra Glickman
• “Telling the Truth to Daughters” by Christopher Goodrich
• BELOVED COMMUNITY: THE SISTERHOOD OF HOMELESS WOMEN IN POETRY edited by WHEEL
• “Cairo Qasidah” by Sam Hamill
• “Attempt” by Elizabeth Hoover
• ORDINARY GENIUS by Kim Addonizio
• “The Day I Got My Timing Down” by D.R. James
• “Motel Night Attendant” by Mark Evan Johnston
• “In the Bleachers” by David Kelly-Hedrick
• “Hello, I Must Be Going” by Krista Klanderman
• FAR FROM ALGIERS by Djelloul Marbrook
• “Dawn on Maui” by John Laue
• “End Game” by Gary Lemons
• “Hot Night Too Loud for Words” by Joanne Lowery
• “Escapees from the Zoo” by Joanne Lowery
• ELEGY by Larry Levis
• “At the Spring” by David T. Manning
• “In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room” by Joy Maulitz
• “Rhode Island” by Amy Miller
• “Corporal Russell” by Michael Miller
• IT WAS A TERRIBLE CLOUD AT TWILIGHT by Alessandra Lynch
• “The Beginning of a Long Night” by Gabrielle Mittelbach
• “Gratitude” by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
• “Semiotics” by Malcolm Alexander
• “A Brief Introduction to Cowboy Poetry” by Rod Miller
• “Scarlet” by Sherman Alexie
• DOG ROAD WOMAN by Allison Hedge Coke
• “On Submitting Poems: By Any Means Necessary” by Bruce Cohen
• Received for Review in May
• “Considering the Trebonites” by Dick Allen
• “Rider” by Bruce Berger
• THE VEILED SUITE, THE COLLECTED POEMS by Agha Shahid Ali
• “The Neighbor’s Tale” by Phyllis Aboaf
• “After Six” by Meghan Adler
• A RANDOM CENSUS OF SOULS by Samuel Western
• “On the Poverty of My Imagination” by Tiffany Beechy
• “Dear Internal Revenue Service” by John Brehm
• “Dalton’s Law” by Helena Bell
• MUSIC OF TIME: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by David Ray
• “Farrier” by Cal Freeman
• “At a Party on Ellis Island, Watching Fireworks” by Traci Brimhall
• “Expiration Dates” by James Best
• FEAR by Pamela Garvey
• “Mahler in New York” by Joseph Fasano
• “Breaking Babies” by Christine Gelineau
• “Not Everything I Do Is Magic” by David M. DeLeon
• “DANCING AT THE DEVIL’S PARTY: ESSAYS ON POETRY, POLITICS, AND THE EROTIC” by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
• “The Tulip Tree” by Ted Gilley
• “Last Meal” by Marcus Cafagña
• Received for Review in June
• “On the Day of the Translation Workshop” by Alicia Casey
• RHYTHM AND BOOZE by Julie Kane
• “An Honest Man’s Profile for Internet Dating” by Bruce Cohen
• “Aposematic” by Elizabeth J. Colen
• “Pentimento” by Jennifer Pruden Colligan
• MEMORY AND RAIN by Jim Natal
• “Fence Posts Made of Stone” by Al ‘Doc’ Mehl
• “Nameless Boy” by Douglas Goetsch
• “When There’s Frost Upon the Ponies” by D.W. Groethe
• ONEIROMANCE by Kathleen Rooney
• “Watching The Wizard of Oz, Summer 1988” by Rebecca Lehmann
• “The Calf in the Pantry” by Mark D. Hart
• “My People” by Hilary Melton
• MILK CHIP MONDAY by Julie Otten
• “Cow Songs” by M.E. Hope
• “Poem of Four Explanations to Poems at Poetry Readings” by Gary Dop
• “Dream/Time” by Deborah Tobola
• “Wild Bill Hacker” by Mikhail Horowitz
• CRAZY LOVE by Pamela Uschuk
• “The Only Thing” by Alan Fox
• “The Calendar” by Amie Whittemore
• “Muscled Loins and Haunches” by Bil Lepp
• “Guided Tour” by Ed Galing
• EASY MARKS by Gail White
• “A Question About Horses” by Lisa Lewis
• “Bach in the DC Subway” by David Lee Garrison
• “Love Letter After the Fact” by Jennifer Malesich
• “Virginia” by Ted Gilley
• IN THE VOICE OF A MINOR SAINT by Sarah J. Sloat
• “Spring in the Country” by David Romtvedt
• “Bonnard’s Wife’s Ashes” by Paula Goldman
• “Showdown” by Luke Shuttleworth
• “A Family Matter” by Bob Hicok
• WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S HOME by Kim Calder
• “A Plastic Dashboard Jesus? You Kiddin’?” by Red Shuttleworth
• “Dispatches from the Dream of Personal Flight” by Eric Kocher
• “Authority” by Laurence Snydal
• “Under the Knife” by Hilary Melton
• SIXTY SONNETS by Ernest Hilbert
• “Sheep Kill” by Jeff Streeby
• “My Problem with the World” by Brenda Paro
• “End of Days” by Marge Piercy
• CRAZY LOVE by Pamela Uschuk
• “Telephone Lines” by Eric Paul Shaffer
• “Memory” by Joan I. Siegal
• AMERICAN FUTURE by Peter Bethanis
• “The Tears of India” by John Spaulding
• “Blue Willow: Persephone Falling” by Alison Townsend
• “A Visit to the SuperMart” by William G. Ward
• LIMOUSINE, MIDNIGHT BLUE by Jamey Hecht
• “Daphne Swears Off It” by Susan Rich
• “What Happens Here” by Susan J. Allspaw
• “Myopic” by Nahrain Al-Mousawi
• STILL TO MOW by Maxine Kumin
• “Three Rivers Meet, Become Falls” by Liz Robbins
• “Scenic Postcard” by Paula Bonnell
• “A Brief Note from Spencer” by Jon Andersen
• “The Dinner” by Chuck Augello
• MOM’S CANOE by Rebecca Foust
• “Magritte’s Dog” by Deborah Brown
• “Baby Steps” by Jason Schossler
• WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COMING TO THIS MORNING by Greg Kosmicki
• 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
• “Under a Bare Bulb” by Walter Bargen
• “Help (In 47 Languages)” by Denise Duhamel
• “Schroedinger’s Cat” by Wanda Schubmehl
• TAKE IT by Joshua Beckman
• “Why Women’s Knees are So Pretty” by Nick Carbó
• “So You Said What You Had to Say” by Susan Abraham
• “Love of Distance” by Prartho Sereno
• SHE DANCES LIKE MUSSOLINI by David James
• “Doing Lineups on my Birthday” by Richard S. Bank
• “Cnidaria” by Lisa L. Siedlarz
• “Hunting” by Joan Dy
• DIVINE COMEDY: JOURNEYS THROUGH A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY by John Kinsella
• “The Day it Rained a Whale” by J. Arron Small
• “Mitosis” by Amanda Blue Gotera
• “Creation” by Lenore Langs
• “What Is Your Idle Job?” by Ace Boggess
• MODERN LIFE by Matthea Harvey
• “Meanwhile, Down at the Fish Market” by Anthony Fedanzo
• “Landscaping” by Michele Battiste
• CLOISTERS by Kristin Bock
• “C6 Corvette” by Sarah Ferris-DiMonda
• “Practice” by Andrew Bode-Lang
• “Picnic” by A.C. Speyer
• VOICE CARRIED MY FAMILY by Robert Sullivan
• “In Your Absence” by Dorothy Mahoney
• “Plea Bargain, June 29” by Mark C. Bruce
• “How Love Came to Us” by Eric Evans
• “A Poem for Uncertainties” by Mark Terrill
• CANTICLE OF IDOLS by Raina León
• “Memories of my Jewish Aunt” by Nancy J. Thompson
• “Chewing Gum Upskirt” by Vince Gotera
• “Cradle” by Anis Mojgani
• “Floaters” by Allen C. Fischer
• THE SPIDER SERMONS by Robert Krut
• “First Pig” by Douglas Woody Woodsum
• “Western Motel” by J.J. Blickstein
• “Small Reflection” by Louis Faber
• WITH THE LIGHT OF APRICOTS by Larry D. Thomas
• “The Death of Old Women” by Elizabeth Smither
• “Bottomlands Widow” by Doug Ramspeck
• “A Man Is Not Supposed to Give in to Tears” by Greg Moglia
• “Pulling Weeds On Your 30th Birthday” by Katie Chaple
• “Home Visit: Danny” by Jennifer Perrine
• ALL ODD AND SPLENDID by Hilda Raz
• “To the Former Self in Art Class” by Hannah Faith Notess
• “It Is Fair to Say There Are Some Lovers Who Never Leave” by Natasha Kochicheril Moni
• “How Did We Come to Be the Ones Whose Feet Are Being Washed?” by Rachel Webster
• ESSENDO MORTI – BEING DEAD by Jéanpaul Ferro
• “Horizon Note” by Luisa Igloria
• “Curves” by Karen Braucher
• “Passenger” by Rebecca Clark
• THE WHOLE MARIE by Barbara Maloutas
• “Hurricane Bob” by Bob Brooks
• “These Wild Turkeys” by Tim Poland
• “The Late Mr. Crowbait” by Louis Daniel Brodsky
• “Cooking Frutti Di Mare On This Early Evening Before the Night Falls On Kentucky Hillsides” by Mike Maniquiz
• THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM by Katha Pollitt
• “Considering My Silence: On Not Writing in the Jungles of Papua, Indonesia” by Erik Campbell
• “Broke” by Bonnie Young
• “Making a Living” by Brent Fisk
• DREAMING THE END OF WAR by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees
• “Why We Can’t Use Roundup On Our Lawn” by Maya Jewell Zeller
• “How to Make Amends” by David James
• “Saving For Sleep” by Hannah Craig
• “The Air is Cold” by Val Conder
• AN URGENT REQUEST by Sarah Luczaj
• “Apartment 2B” by Albert Abonado
• “Descent and Transcendence…” by Meta DuEwa Jones
• “Why Do They Call Bill Clinton the First Black President” by Idris Goodwin
• “Hopefully Soon” by Alvin Aubert
• ARRANGING THE BLAZE by Chad Sweeney
• “Tonsillitis” by Arlene Ang
• “Cartographer” by DéLana R.A. Dameron
• “Speculative” by Willie James King
• “Home Visit: Jenny” by Jennifer Perrine
• LUCIFER AT THE STARLITE by Kim Addonizio
• “To Stop a Dinner Guest” by Josiah Bancroft
• From “The Telly Cycle” by Toi Derricotte
• “Today She Bought the Hideous Tie They Will Bury Me In” by Patrick Carrington
• “What the Dead Tell Us About Charon, Ferryman of the Dead” by Brett Ortler
• THIS NEST, SWIFT PASSERINE by Dan Beachy-Quick
• “Sound-Part 1 (Girl With Red Scarf)” by Yona Harvey
• “Elevator” by Andrew Kozma
• “Through the Invisible Cloak…” by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
• “Ars Poetica” by Grace Ocasio
• STONERS AND SELF-APPOINTED SAINTS by Annie La Ganga
• “For Aunt Louise, Who Never Liked Me” by Randy Blythe
• “They Win the Upper Hand” by Camille T. Dungy
• “Far” by Bruce Bond
• “A Few Excuses” by Thomas Sayers Ellis
• THE VOICES: THE POETRY OF PSYCHIATRY by Nancy Kerrigan
• “Load” by Christine Butterworth-McDermott
• “Say It, Say It Anyway You Can” by Vievee Francis
• From “Beirut (1982-84): A Cycle of Poems” by Michael Campagnoli
• “Mucambo” by Myronn Hardy
• THE BROTHER SWIMMING BENEATH ME by Brent Goodman
• “Ode to the Bedpan” by Janice N. Harrington
• “Love” by Heather Bell
• “Crow-Magnon” by Howard Price
• “The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice” by Alison Townsend
• “Motown Crown” by Patricia Smith
• “On the Question of What Drives Coronary Circulation…” by Mario Chard
• “Last Day on Earth” by Larry Crist
• THE ORIGIN OF THE MILKY WAY by Barbara Louise Ungar
• “Who Are You and Whom Do You Love?” by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
• “Godly” by James Doyle
• “The Lord God Bird” by Danusha Laméris
• “Skinning a Child Alive” by Sally Doyle
• BREATH-LIFE by Juanita Torrence-Thompson
• “All Seasons” by Alan Fox
• “Medusa’s Defense” by Jennifer Donice Lewis
• “On the Flyleaf of C.K.W.’s Selected Poems” by Herbert Woodward Martin
• “A Starbucks Romance” by Robert Funge
• A GUEST IN ALL YOUR HOUSES by Peter Ludwin
• “The Girls On Josephine Street” by Melissa McEwen
• “A Guide for Black and White Crossing” by Katy Richey
• “A Good Bad Day” by Tony Gloeggler
• WILD FLIGHT by Christine Rhein
• “For the Man Whose Son My Son Killed” by Gary Earl Ross
• “Interference” by Kimi Cunningham Grant
• “The Hour of Our Belief” by Mary Mclaughlin Slechta
• “The Famous Outlaw” by David James
• THEN, SOMETHING by Patricia Fargnoli
• “Midwestern Gothic” by Laurie Junkins
• “Civil Rights Cold Case #62 (Or the Yellow Dress)” by Lolita Stewart-White
• “Porn” by Christopher Kempf
• “Overheard at Starbucks: A Black Hat Saying” by Lynne Thompson
• “History of My Body” by Katie Kingston
• THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO translated by David Hinton
• “Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” by Patricia Smith
• “Ghosting” by Tom Chandler
• “Driving Under the Full Wolf Moon” by Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody
• “Off Duty At Bare Exposures Gentlemen Club” by Eric Lee
• SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan
• “The Redwood Plague” by Phyllis M. Teplitz
• “Lips” by Lyn Lifshin
• “Hero” by Ian Williams
• “An Ordinary Orderly” by Laurie B. Ludmer
• UNTHINKABLE: SELECTED POEMS 1976-2004 by Irene McKinney
• “Homeschool Fieldtrip, 2nd Grade” by Prairie L. Markussen
• “Dreamboys” by L. Lamar Wilson
• “Conversation” by Joe Mills
• RUIN AND BEAUTY by Deena Metzger
• “52” by Patricia Smith
• “Dreaming of Emily Dickinson” by E.K. Mortenson
• “To the High School Thug that Broke Into His English Teacher’s Car” by Scott Woods
• “Crossing the Gap” by Travis Mossotti
• DUST AND BREAD by Stephen Haven
• “Miserable” by Dave Newman
• “Thaw” by David O’Connell
• “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann
• THE WOMAN YOU WRITE POEMS ABOUT by Danielle (Dani) Montgomery
• First Book Interview with Michelle Bitting
• “Daphne” by Kenny Williams
• “(A+B+C)” by Charlotte Pence
• FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR by Lynn Levin
• “Unplotted” by Christine Poreba
• “Ohio” by Charles Rafferty
• “Sunday Picnic on the Vltava” by Tera Vale Ragan
• “Writer in Residence, Central State” by Diana Goetsch
• MOVING HOUSE by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
• “Into the Fog” by Mark Rich
• “The Night Before” by Michael Salcman
• “Poem in Search of a Horse” by Hayden Saunier
• “Early Night” by Alan Soldofsky
• SIX LIPS by Penelope Scambly Schott
• “Determing Who the Marchers Were” by Lee Stern
• “Death of the Hired Hand, Hiawatha, Kansas” by Kate Sweeney
• “Microcosm” by Jeff Vande Zande
• WHAT I KNOW OF INNOCENCE by Cathryn Essinger
• “Claes Attempts to Understand Women” by Tana Jean Welch
• “Don’t You Miss the Phone Booth” by Kate Peper
• “Nine” by Christine Butterworth-McDermott
• SAVE THE LAST DANCE by Gerald Stern
• “In Memory of His Memory” by David Wagoner
• “My Father’s Painting” by Bryan Walpert
• “Turning” by Kelli Youngblood
• “Riptide” by Melanie Wright
• ELEANOR, ELEANOR, NOT YOUR REAL NAME by Kathryn Cowles
• “Folding” by Jim Tilley
• “Fish Blood and Diesel Fuel” by Anne Winter
• “Castlekeep” by Philip A Waterhouse
• “A Country in Our Hearts” by Fred Voss
• OMNIVORE by Allan Peterson
• “Self-Portrait: November” by Sandy Longhorn
• “The Eskimo’s Guide to Fine Dining” by Andrew Vinstra
• “Convert’s Lament” by Laura Van Prooyen
• “Leaves of Grass/Suicide/Psychic Hotlines” by Cathryn Cofell
• A VILLAGE LIFE by Louise Glück
• “Accidental Death and Dismemberment” by Masarah Van Eyck
• “They Can’t Touch You” by Joe Pierre
• “Nature Essay” by Ann Tweedy
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• THE ART OF STEPPING THROUGH TIME by H.E. Sayeh
• “Cruising the Reststop On Route 9” by Bruce Snider
• “To Myself As a Statue in Central Park” by Ephraim Scott Sommers
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• BOOK OF THE GIVEN by Rusty Morrison
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• “The Don’ts” by Jeff Vande Zande
• “The Minstrel Cycle” by Craig van Rooyen
• “Wherein the Author Provides Footnotes…” by Jeanann Verlee
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• ASPECTS OF ROBINSON: HOMAGE TO WELDON KEES edited by Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell
• “Objective Correlative” by Bryan Walpert
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• “Honesty” by Maya Jewell Zeller
• from A Conversation with M.L. Liebler
• MY INDEX OF SLIGHTLY HORRIFYING KNOWLEDGE by Paul Guest
• “The Thing in Question” by Thom Ward
• “The Blessings of Dreams” by Michelle Margolis
• “Waitress” by Allan Johnston
• “Cooking Dinner” by Timothy Green
• 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
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• “Letter to the Victim’s Family” by Gordon Grilz
• EATING THE PURE LIGHT: HOMAGE TO THOMAS MCGRATH by John Bradley, Editor
• “Ghost” by Mark E. Hayes
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• THE BOOK OF THINGS by Ales Steger, tr. by Brian Henry
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• from A Conversation Between Alan Shapiro and Alan Fox
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• Interview with John Guzlowski
• “You Know…and You Do It” by Carol Lem
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• “Running” by David C. Manfredi, M.D.
• “The Color of a Butterfly’s Wing” by Mark A. Lipowicz
• “After a Winter of Grieving” by Sam Hamill
• “The Poet at Eighty” Rob Ingraham
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• IN BEAUTY BRIGHT by Gerald Stern
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• “Walter Scott Houston (1912-1993)” by Stephen Burdette
• “To Hell in a Handbasket” by Alan Catlin
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• “What Remains is Given Up to the Fire” by Christeene Alcosiba
• “Cops on the Beat” by James Fleming
• Interview with Teresa Mei Chuc
• “Guardians of the Good” by Madeline Artenberg
• PLANS DERANGED BY TIME by George Fetherling
• “Can They Do That?” by Ace Boggess
• “The Terrorism of Abstraction” by Amiri Baraka
• from A Conversation with Amiri Baraka
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• “When My Ex Called in Sick” by Darla Biel
• Interview with Bruce Cohen
• “Property” by Ace Boggess
• FINDING MY ELEGY by Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Deus Ex Machina” by Peter Bradley
• “God’s Razors” by Eric Burger
• “Shots Fired” by Barbara Ann Carle
• OTHERWISE, SOFT WHITE ASH by Kelli Allen
• “Not the Exception” by Rohan Chhetri
• “The Secret” by Sarah Cortez
• “More Cops on the Beat” by Sarah Cortez
• “Elegy” by Paul F. Cummins
• TRAVELING LIGHT by Linda Pastan
• “Lungs Like a Distance Swimmer” by Weston Cutter
• “Fred Astaire and Betty Davis” by Betty Davis
• “The Resurrection of Form in Poetry” by David James
• “In the County for a PR” by Tiffanie Desmangles
• WHY WE HAVE EVENING by Leonard Orr
• “The Pleasures of Age” by Thomas Dorsett
• “In a Diner Somewhere in Iowa, I Imagine My Father Meeting the Future President” by Kathleen Driskell
• “People You May Know” by Patrick Dutcher
• “The Fire” by Jaclyn Dwyer
• TALKING INTO THE EAR OF THE DONKEY by Robert Bly
• “Précis” by Alejandro Escudé
• “Working Homicide” by James Fleming
• “Duluth” by Jesse S. Fourmy
• “Two Poems” by Alan Fox
• MELANCHOLIA (AN ESSAY) by Kristina Marie Darling
• “Finding Yet Another Way to Say What Can’t Be Said Any Other Way” by Art Beck
• “The Sea” by Fred Fox
• “Sex Education” by Sarah Freligh
• “Cleaning House” by Ed Galing
• CRYPTIC ENDEARMENTS by Howie Good
• “Holding Light” by Kristin George Bagdanov
• “An Editor Advised Me to Stop Writing Mother Bird Poems” by Jennifer Givhan
• “On Old Congress Run Road” by Susan F. Glassmeyer
• “Portrait of an Inner Life” by John Gosslee
• QUESTIONS FOR THE SPHINX by Stuart Bartow
• “Haiku” by Margaret Green
• “Tattoos On Young Women in Spring” by Tresha Faye Haefner
• “About-To-Rain” by Theodosia Henney
• “God Knows I Want to Be Good” by Jackleen Holton
• THE SWERVE by Julith Jedamus
• “Primer” by Jessica Jacobs
• “Being Difficult” by Norman Ball
• “Trash” by Lowell Jaeger
• “Let’s Say” by Rhoda Janzen
• LONG DIVISION by Alan Michael Parker
• “The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory” by Rhoda Janzen
• from A Conversation with Rhoda Janzen
• “The Cosmic Dance” by Dave Jarecki
• “Blue Funk” by Hans Jewinski
• “Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Pepper Too?” by Edmund Jorgensen
• DARKENING THE GRASS by Michael Miller
• “Enlightenment” by Rose Kelleher
• “Mercy” by Suzanne Kessler
• “My Problem With Your Hat” by Guy Kettelhack
• “Sunset” by Guy Kettelhack
• THE LONG VIEW JUST KEEPS TREADING WATER by James Doyle
• “Almost by Heart” by Lynne Knight
• Interview with Stefan
• “Destination: Beautiful” by Eugenia Leigh
• 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
• “Auditing the Heart” by Frank Matagrano
• “Extremes” by Joan Mazza
• “Woman Releasing a Tongueless Swallow” by Ken Meisel
• PRUNING BURNING BUSHES by Sarah M. Wells
• “Yellow Sailboat” by Dean Olson
• “Caddy” by Donald Platt
• “Hooverites and Jarhead MPS” by David S. Pointer
• “Between Missing and Found” by Christine Poreba
• AND GOD SAID: LET THERE BE EVOLUTION! by Steve Henn
• “Proof of Service” by John J. Powers
• Two Poems by Kuno Raeber
• “Single Father” by Josh Rathkamp
• Interview with Paul Dickey
• “Shoulders” by G. Emil Reutter
• “Hardship in a Nice Place” by Jack Ridl
• IN VITRO by Leland Jamieson
• “The Tattooed Woman” by Richard Robbins
• “Hard Work Pays Off” by Mary Anne Rojas
• “Reuptake Inhibitors” by Sam Sax
• “How to Classify a Reptile” by Rebecca Schumeida
• DINE-RITE: BREAKFAST POEMS by Louis Daniel Brodsky
• “Pittsburgh” by Ali Shapiro
• “Real Men Don’t Take No Shit From Nobody” by Janice D. Soderling
• “Recovery at Lake Tahoe” by Alan Soldofsky
• “Dammit and the Placenta” by Rob Stephens
• TAILOR SHOP: THREADS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
• “Fast Facts About Famous People” by Bruce Taylor
• “Reading Exodus” by Craig van Rooyen
• “After” by Vance Voyles
• ROBINSON ALONE by Kathleen Rooney
• “While Taking a Nap, the Invisible Stenographer Dreams She Can Play the Violin” by Kathleen A. Wakefield
• “The Invisible Stenographer Rediscovers the Wheel” by Kathleen A. Wakefield
• “The Invisible Stenographer Listens to the Dead” by Kathleen A. Wakefield
• SHOULDA BEEN JIMI SAVANNAH by Patricia Smith
• “The Old Me” by William Walsh
• The Deep Pulse of Idiom: Noodles, Blue Teeth, Flesh-Eaters, Gustave Flaubert, and Kurosawa’s Dream by Art Beck
• “Media Blues” by A.D. Winans
• “Watching Deer in a Snowstorm a Few Days After Oral Surgery…” by Scott Withiam
• OUT OF THE BLACK FOREST by F.J. Bergmann
• “How to Become a Professional Folk Singer” by Jeff Worley
• “When You Wait for Love” by Joshua E. Borgmann
• “When Father Sang” by Robert Cooperman
• “Pine Box Derby” by Larry Crist
• “Unattractive Girl in Bikini…” by Paul Dickey
• LOOMS by Camille Martin
• “The Crisis Angel” by Sybil Pittman Estess
• “I Worry More” by David Filer
• “Celebration” by Alan Fox
• “Quarter-to-Nine” by Stuart Friebert
• THE ORACLE OF HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD by Dana Goodyear
• “The Chess Player” by Phan Tien Duat
• “The Night-Blooming Cereus and I” by Lam Thi My Da
• “Broken” by Du Thi Hoan
• “Resettlement” by Le Pham Le
• THE CHANGING ROOM by Zhai Yongming
• “In the Men’s Room” by Michael S. Glaser
• “My Brother Buries His Dog” by Chris Green
• “Listening Through the Walls” by Bonnie Hamlin
• “Night Sigh” by Tom Hansen
• DEEP LANDSCAPE TURNING by Ann Hutt Browning
• “Mother’s Day” by Alan Harawitz
• “Baker” by J.A. Hulstine
• “Spiritual Warfare” by Karla Huston
• “Meggy” by Una Nicholas Hynum
• THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR: A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION by Simon Armitage
• “This State” by Catherine Jagoe
• “Creation” by DeAnna Jones
• “Waiting Inside” by Zilka Joseph
• OLIVES By A.E. Stallings
• “Recycling Pornography” by Stephanie Lenox
• “Family History at Sea” by Christopher Locke
• “Reasons to Live” by Alison Luterman
• “Flow” by Stephen McDonald
• ZONED INDUSTRIAL by Patric Pepper
• “Neolithic Burial” by Tim Myers
• “The Balm of Night” by Kenneth O’Keefe
• A Conversation with Li-Young Lee
• “Going Outside While Listening to Music” by Pat Pittman
• “After a Moment’s Pause” by Agustine F. Porras
• “The Ocean” by Gordon Preston
• “Aubade” by Cheri L. R. Taylor
• “Mathematics and Mole” by Diana Rosen
• I WANTED A CITY by Janet Marks
• “Beloved Familiar” by Michele Rosenthal
• “Art Festival” by Karen Schoenhals
• “Tip Fogarty (1963)” by Red Shuttleworth
• “Renting Tom Mix’s House on Catalina” by Mark Smith
• PLAYING BACH IN THE D.C. METRO by David Lee Garrison
• “Why Men Go Crabbing” by Diane Stone
• “Carrying Two Packs” by David T. Strong
• “Found Behind the Box Factory” by Donna Stubak
• “Olive Oil” by Paul Suntup
• CHARMS AGAINST LIGHTNING by James Arthur
• “Turning Sixty” by Don Thompson
• “East Rogers Park” by Francine Marie Tolf
• “Conjecture” by Anthony Tracy
• “Cantina Band, Black Ops” by Ryan G. Van Cleave
• F IN by Carol Guess
• “My Father Loves Me, He Loves Me” by Angelo Verga
• “Elegy for My 1958 Volkswagen” by Ruth Bavetta
• “Howie Night at the Drottkvaett” by Burt Beckmann
• “Jane’s Heartbreak Yard Sale” by Lytton Bell
• THE RIGID BODY by Gabriel Spera
• “Currencies” by Kristin Berkey-Abbott
• “The Astronaut Explains Divorce to Me” by Ash Bowen
• “Time Out” by John Brehm
• “Singularity” by Rachael Briggs
• WHAT WE ASK OF FLESH by Remica L. Bingham
• “How We Knew Them” by Chris Bullard
• “Clerking at the Ideal Laundry” by Patricia Callan
• “My 1930 Model A Ford” by Norma Chapman
• “What’s Wrong With” by Sage Cohen
• WHAT TO MAKE OF IT by Pamela Harrison
• “How Was Your Weekend,” by Kim Dower
• A Conversation with Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Zeitgeber” by Anna M. Evans
• MISS PLASTIQUE by Lynn Levin
• “Watching My Daughter Through the One-Way …” by Robert Fanning
• “Lookists” by Doris Ferleger
• “The Flight to Sacramento” by Megan Fernandes
• “The Robbery” by Catherine Freeling
• BREATH CONTROL by Maryann Corbett
• “Elemental” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• “Cryogenesis” by Rhonda Ganz
• “The Destination” by Conrad Geller
• “The People Across the Street” by Ted Gilley
• VERTICAL HOLD by Jeff Simpson
• “Green Thumb” by Kim Goldberg
• “The Space Traveler’s Moon” by Benjamin S. Grossberg
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• “Blue Sky” by Penny Harter
• DIADEM: SELECTED POEMS by Marosa di Giorgio
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• “Blue Plate Special” by Edison Jennings
• SILT WILL SWIRL by John Fry
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• “Sledding” by Glenn Kletke
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• “Small Spool” by Sandra Marshburn
• BRACKISH by Jeff Newberry
• “Things to Ponder About the Southern Baptist” by Arthur McMaster
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• “After My Copy of Levertov’s Life in the Forest” by Jeremy Dae Paden
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• “Don’t Worry, Mom, Don’t Panic” by Cailena Bickell
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• “Mysterious Farang” by Erik Campbell
• “When Nancy Drew the Line” by Amy MacLennan
• “The Mountain Raven” by Oscar Brady
• “Bearer of the Light” by Ariane Branigan
• 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
• “Over the Hill Where Rock and Roll Dies” by J.V. Brummels
• “Tattoo” by Todd Davis
• “Indian Summer” by Todd Davis
• “Black Water” by Todd Davis
• “When People Leave This Earth” by Theo Candlish
• “Firefly” by Abigail Rose Cargo
• “Sea Drift” by Eileen Berry
• “Salt Lies Sprinkled” by Irena Praitis
• “In a Diner Somewhere in Iowa …” by Kathleen Driskell
• “Diagnosis HIV” by Cortney Davis
• “In Bracken” by Kenneth Pobo
• “A Girl of Five or Eight’s Exemplum” by Lauren E. Carter
• “I Doodilye You Coo Coo” by Rubio Jett Castagna-Torres
• “A Language” by Robert King
• “Work” by Robert King
• “Feats of Pain and Daring” by Scott Beal
• “Unbounded” by Russell Bittner
• A Conversation with Francesca Lia Block
• “Spring Lament” by Francesca Lia Block
• “Bob the Bear” by Frank Colasacco
• 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor Winner
• “From ‘Saving Private Ryan’” by Clifford Paul Fetters
• “Conditional Perfect Tense” by Joan Wiese Johannes
• “The Road” by Teresa Mei Chuc
• “How to Pray” by Sage Cohen
• “What I Will Tell His Daughter …” by Meg Day
• “Transfertle the Plum” by Carol Denson
• “Salmon” by Kathmandu Cook
• “Over It” by Alexis Rhone Fancher
• “Parents Without Partners Toga Dance …” by Patricia Fargnoli
• “Incidentals” by Penny Freeland
• “Custody” by Louis Gallo
• “Big Sis” by James Dailey
• “The Letter Before A” by Colette Inez
• “The Play of Lovers” by Colette Inez
• “The Story, For Now” by Janlori Goldman
• “To My Husband, Who 33 Years Ago …” by Maryanne Hannan
• “The Transfer” by Elise Hempel
• “Emily on Tuesday” by Ken Holland
• “What I Want to Do Most of the Time” by Jo’lene Dailey
• “Horoscope” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• “Poem After the Death of Dad’s Girlfriend” by Vittoria Repetto
• MicroReviews for Spring 2014
• “Elephant Drops Dead in the Ring” by Anne Ward Jamieson
• “What to Do with Leftovers” by Edison Jennings
• “Door Gunner” by Jenifer Browne Lawrence
• “In a Quiet Moment” by Hilary Melton
• “Grandpa Bob” by Sophia Dienstag
• “Algebra” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
• “Desert” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
• “My Daughter Calls Me Hag” by Barbra Nightingale
• “Sweatheart” by Janet Nippell
• “Sunday” by January Gill O’Neil
• “Hello Wall” by Gloria Parker
• “He Lives in an Ark and Dreams” by Gabby Dodd-Terrell
• “Looking Back” by Sarah Brown Weitzman
• “Lines in Late April” by Kenneth Salzmann
• “Mothering Solo” by Khadijah Queen
• “In Response to Anyone Who Asks” by Josh Rathkamp
• “Single Dads of Daughters” by Russell Rowland
• “Metaphorical Children” by April Salzano
• “Lessons” by Zea Eanet
• “My Grandfather Only Wears Brown” by Megan Collins
• “Anyway” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Skinny Old Man with Shopping Cart” by Art Schwartz
• “Glosa” by Diane Seuss
• “An Open Letter to Our Sperm Donor” by Robin Silbergleid
• “On the Way to the Airport” by Donna Spector
• “Making Noise” by Kofi Edufo
• A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
• “Goy” by Tony Gloeggler
• “The God Box” by Marcela Sulak
• “Rough Ties: All Mothers Are Single” by Susan Terris
• “Girl’s Childhood” by Betsy Fogelman Tighe
• “Bells” by Julia Clare Tillinghast
• “Sudan” by Zeena El Gindi
• “How She Described Her Ex-Husband…” by Martha Clarkson
• “Directions” by Robert W. King
• “After He Left” by Jeanie Tomasko
• “Dead Letters” by Barbara Louise Ungar
• “Distracted Notes …” by Barbara Louise Ungar
• “Yellow” by Phoebe Fischer
• “Eulogy for a Balloon” by Rose Foster
• “How the Mirror Looks This Morning” by Bob Hicok
• “Inspired by Failures (My Failures, I Mean, In Business)” by Steven Huff
• “Number 32” by Tony Gloeggler
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• “Seventeen Years” by Jan Hardy
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• “I Thought I Was A Fertility Goddess” by Becca Hensley
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• “On War, Both Foreign and Domestic” by Erik Campbell
• “Juice” by Wanda Morrow Clevenger
• “Questions” by Savion Harris
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• “Apocalyptic Charlton Heston” by David Denny
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• “The Great American Screenplay” by Patrick Ryan Frank
• “Blowing a Kiss to My Sister” by Courtlyn Helder
• “T.S. Eliot’s Lost Hip Hop Poem” by Jeremy Richards
• “Presidential Poetry Briefing” by Albert Haley
• “My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children” by Rebecca Gayle Howell
• “What He Must Have Seen” by Stephen Kampa
• “How to Peel a Prawn” by Jill Klein
• “Frozen Shadows” by Jorel Hill
• “Broody” by Maxine Kumin
• “A Letter to Jani Larson on the Matter of Sgt. Bergdahl” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
• “The Unintended Lecture on Desire” by Lynne Knight
• “After Her Affair” by Lynne Knight
• “While Plum Blossoms Sweep Down Like Snow” by Lynne Knight
• “April 2, 2013” by Greg Kosmicki
• “Famine” by Remington Janssen
• “Self-Portraits” by Cricket Lee
• “After the Memorial” by Megan Collins
• “Mark Trail” by Ron Koertge
• A Conversation with Ron Koertge
• “Waiting” by Karl Krolow
• “Just So You Know” by Tim Laffey
• “Why Should We in Some Forgotten Corner” by Emma Faye Jewell
• “Approaching Storm” by Lynne Knight
• “Black Banana” by Rebecca Schumejda
• “The Witch’s Daughter” by Joan Murray
• “Man on Mad Anthony” by Bea Opengart
• “Laundry List” by Michelle Ornat
• “Untitled” by Mikey Kelsey
• “Poetry, Blood and Cyanide” by Cyrus Mahan
• “On July 8” by Elly Bookman
• “Grey Faith” by Grace L. Park
• “My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens …” by Tina Parker
• “Thinking Again of that Lone Boxer” by Charlotte Pence
• “Man on the Floor” by Jack Powers
• “The Pangolin’s Love Story” by Skylar Kendall
• “Motor City Tirade” by Dawn McDuffie
• “How I Fathom the Crash” by Megan Collins
• “Hepatitis C” by Michael D. Riley
• “Dilemmas of the Angels: Extraterrestrial” by David Romtvedt
• “Dilemmas of the Angels: Intention” by David Romtvedt
• “Magic” by Liz Scheid
• “The Tired Face of the Magician Rescues Untruths” by Stephanie Lester
• “Silver Moonlight” by Christopher Fox
• “Ya’aburnee” by Zeina Hashem Beck
• “Re: Re: Personal Ad #6 …” by Michael Schmeltzer
• “The Famine of Love” by Jenneva Scholz
• “Who Breathed in Binders” by Patricia Smith
• “Summer” by Graham Linthorst
• “This Poem Is for My Mother” by Andrena Zawinski
• “She Runs from the River” by Elise Liu
• “New Year” by Lindsay Tigue
• “Of You” by Wendy Videlock
• “Courthouse” by Monica Wendel
• “Arms” by Mike White
• “A Journey to Heaven” by Madeline McEwen
• “Found Among Letters to His Mistress” by Ed Wickliffe
• “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza)” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
• “Watch” by Mike White
• “Breathing Jesus” by Fred D. White
• “In the Blood” by David Welch
• “Haiku” by Bree, Liya & Anya Miksovsky
• “Cat Love” by Natalie Belle Neal
• “Cracking Up” by Amy Uyematsu
• “Roll Call for Michael Brown” by Jason McCall
• “Of the Lamp” by Gabrielle Bates
• A Conversation with Yusef Komunyakaa
• “Naked Lady Playing Cards” by David Thornbrugh
• “Confiding with a Hen” by Chloe Ortiz
• “Twine: A Prayer” by Chloe Ortiz
• “The Detective Asks Me What He Said” by Shoshauna Shy
• “Corpse Flower” by Sonia Greenfield
• “Streamers” by Mark Smith-Soto
• “In Search of History” by Richard Shelton
• “Waiting Room” by Spencer Smith
• “In the Woods” by Ian Jasper Osborn
• “The Power of Clothes” by Grace L. Park
• MicroReviews for Summer 2014
• “The Letter from James Foley” by Lynne Knight
• “Letter to Dick from Time” by Heather Altfeld
• “Crown for a Young Marriage” by Mary Block
• “Mango Smoothie” by Ace Boggess
• “My Ordinary Love” by Paula Bonnell
• “Dreaming of Friends” by Grace L. Park
• “Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 – 1935)” by Felix Stefanile
• “Labor Day: Atlantic City” by Peter E. Murphy
• “Joy” by Byron Case
• “Cavalier” by Michael Cavanagh
• “The Day Is the Island” by Elizabeth Chapman
• “The Grand Design” by Jim Daniels
• “Lost Things” by Lina Patel
• “Summer Storm in Sicily” by Laura Stortoni-Hager
• “A Spokesperson Said Thoughts and Prayers Go Out” by Sonia Greenfield
• “In a Black Tank Top” by Danielle DeTiberus
• “The Valhalla Machine” by Jehanne Dubrow
• “And Have I Loved You?” by Conrad Geller
• “Beauty of the Prisoner” by Evie Portier
• “The Sacred Lane” by Pasquale Verdicchio
• “Flats; or, I Shot an Arrow Into the Air” by Christopher Kempf
• “The Space Traveler’s Crush” by Benjamin S. Grossberg
• “Ichabod” by Mark D. Hart
• “Hooters” by Jackleen Holton
• “Tamara” by Troy Jollimore
• “Once Upon a Time” by Alexander Prokopiev
• “I’m Not Calling It a Chasm” by Julie Henson
• A Conversation with Troy Jollimore
• “The Space Between” by Jill Jupen
• “Kissing as a Religion” by Susan Doble Kaluza
• “Nocturne in What Now Feels Like a Very Silly Dress” by Courtney Kampa
• “The Rocks Were So Tall” by Madeline Restino
• “Platitudes Grow with Age” by Deborah Stambler
• “For Those Who Would Kill Chickens” by Amy Miller
• “Aftermath” by Nathan Landau
• “The Lovers” by Timothy Liu
• “Love Poem” by Timothy Liu
• “Nostos” by James Davis May
• “Trailer Park Girls” by Christell Victoria Roach
• “Act Three” by Joyce Stein
• “Something Beautiful” by Emily Montgomery
• “Optimist” by Leonard Orr
• “Why I Like Marriage” by George Ovitt
• “The Difference at Cafe D’Arthe” by John Poch
• “Oops” by Sabrina Swerdloff
• “The Writing Spider” by Paula Schulz
• “How to Remove a Hazmat Suit” by Jay Sizemore
• “Three Weeks with Etheridge Knight” by Pamela Rasso
• “Speaking in Code” by Christine Rhein
• “Orange Marmalade” by Timothy Schirmer
• “My Father Asks Me to Kill Him” by Lauren Schmidt
• “Girl Rising” by M. T.
• “The Writing Spider” by Caroline Giles Banks
• “Miley Cyrus Presides Over the Funeral for The Twerk” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
• “Free-Form Bolero” by Mather Schneider
• “Bright Red Bit” by Charlotte Seley
• “Valediction, on Arriving in a Distant Land” by Eric Paul Shaffer
• “The Alteration of Love” by Myra Shapiro
• “Past” by Maximilian Tellini
• “Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town” by John Philip Johnson and Julian Peters
• “Nathan Cirillo” by Sneha Madhavan-Reese
• “Satori” by Mark Smith-Soto
• “Instead of a Victorian Novel I Write a Victorian Poem” by Joanna Solfrian
• “Triolet for Carol” by John L. Stanizzi
• “Burka” by Charles Harper Webb
• “Evening Trees” by Junuh Tolan
• “A Woman’s Jewelry” by A. F. Thomas
• “The Electorate” by Kevin Heaton
• “Dip” by Holly Welker
• “In the Presence of Absence” by Richard Widerkehr
• “Desert Love Poem” by Dominika Wrozynski
• “River” by Nic Alea
• “Abandoned Church” by Jose Angel Araguz
• “See You at Home” by Jack Urness
• “On Hearing of Robin Williams’ Diagnosis” by Lynne Knight
• “Spring, 1989” by Andrew Bennett
• “Ruin Porn” by Jacqueline Berger
• “The Butter Smells Funny” by Daniel Bohnhorst
• “For the Female Suicides” by Kim Bridgford
• “Fucking the Gap” by T.L. Burns
• “Explain Sunbeams!” by Jamie Uy
• “Unsent Letter from Philae, Comet 67P” by Rachel J. Bennett
• “Rat King” by Marty Cain
• “The Ice Man” by David Cavanagh
• “Before Riding West” by J.P. Celia
• “I Took Nothing” by Teresa Mei Chuc
• “Nobody Likes Me” by Peyton Vernon
• “Inspiration” by Tabitha Welch
• “Sonnet Consisting of One Law” by Lynne Thompson
• “What I Remember as My Father Is Dying” by Beth Copeland
• “Your Fat Daughter Remembers What You Said” by Lucas Crawford
• “No Body” by J. Divina Erickson
• “The River” by Alan Fox
• from A Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera
• “In the Forest” by Ben Wilson
• “The Gun in its Holster” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
• “Cutting Room” by Troy Jollimore
• “Cardiac Concussion with Delay” by Stephen Kampa
• “Everything Is Broken” by Sharon Kessler
• “I Guess” by Marianne Kunkel
• “Topless Swimming Pool” by Britt Luttrell
• “Deaf Child, Sweet Sound” by E. Wen Wong
• “Dark Prison Ledger” by Lynne Knight
• “On My First Trip to the Strip Club” by Michael Meyerhofer
• “Translation” by Jeffrey Morgan
• “The Difference Between String and Spring” by Z. Mueller
• “Mars and Venus” by Kathleen Diane Nolan
• “Circumspect” by JoLee G. Passerini
• MicroReviews for Fall 2014
• “Mystery Story” by Fiona Lauradunn Woolf
• “In the Winter of 2014 We Were Always Taking His Name” by Mihir Vatsa
• “La Campagna, London, Friday Night” by Robert Peake
• “Among the Yellows, the Faces Slack” by Charlotte Pence
• “Church Bulletin” by Amy Plettner
• “The Night Before Christmas 2014” by Russell Colver
• “When Researching Public Sex Theatres for a Poem” by Sam Sax
• “I Want to Tell the Fish” by Tianyue Xia
• “Hello Miss Pretty Bitch” by Emily Yoon
• “A Lobster’s Home” by Rebecca Schumejda
• “The Diminishing Politics of Senator Les S. Moore” by Janice D. Soderling
• “Clay” by Taylor Supplee
• “Ode to Short Shorts” by Kenny Tanemura
• “Good News Bad News” by Bruce Taylor
• “Diaspora” by Doug Ramspeck
• “Sparrows” by Chera Hammons
• “Battleground” by William Trowbridge
• “Trust Fall” by Paul Watsky
• “Bathtub Baptism” by Leslie Marie Aguilar
• from a Conversation with Chris Anderson
• “Blessing” by Chris Anderson
• “Dream of the Disappeared” by Cecil L. Sayre
• “Pussy Nation” by R.G. Evans
• “Love Letter to Argenta Perón” by Doug Paul Case
• “14, Sunday School, 3 Days Late” by Leila Chatti
• “Dua for Dervishes” by Michael Cirelli
• “Recursives” by Peter Cooley
• “Apophatic” by Maryann Corbett
• “Clean White Sheets” by M
• “Words for a Craven Editor” by Conor Kelly
• “What Is Faith, After All?” by Carol V. Davis
• “Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Todd Davis
• “Ode to Bobs, Breasts, and Beauty” by Jaclyn Dwyer
• “Little Eucharist” by Phillip T. Egelston
• “Signs and Wonders” by Ted Eisenberg
• “Carelessness” by Michael Hallock
• “Realism: For an Infant Doused in Gasoline” by Andrew Collard
• “Little Angel” by Albert Haley
• “The Transformation” by Red Hawk
• “I Find It Difficult to Talk to My Bible Friend” by David James
• “At the Communion Rail” by Mark Jarman
• “There Have Come Soft Rains” by John Philip Johnson
• “Dear Grandma” by Gabriella Altmanni
• “Gratuitous Super Bowl Poem” by Vincent Toro
• “Ten Facts About the Towers” by Richard Leach
• “The Way a Psalm Can Begin” by Moira Linehan
• “Two Small Fish” by Celeste Lipkes
• “Desert Cell” by Steve Myers
• “Broken Eggs” by Danelle Antelo
• “Levels of Shit or Thom Tillis Rejects Government Regulation” by Beth Gylys
• “Love Poem” by Dan Nemes
• “Water Under World” by Hannah Faith Notess
• “Saved” by Kate Peper
• “What Is My Life About?” by Julie Price Pinkerton
• “A Beautiful Town” by Haya Pomrenze
• “Imaginary Deafness” by Elliot L. Armitage
• “The Words Come, They Choke Me” by Leila Chatti
• 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
• “Save the Human Race” by Christine Potter
• “Canticle” by David Radavich
• “Lennon Lyric” by Scott Corbet Riley
• “Belief” by Marilyn Robertson
• “Singing Together in a Small Ventilation Hole” by Elliot L. Armitage
• “Elegy for Philip Levine” by Dante Di Stefano
• “Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line in Public and Still Be Muslim” by Aisha Sharif
• “Dish Team at Church Camp” by Tim Sherry
• “Credo” by Roz Spafford
• “For Jeff, on the Anniversary of His Death” by Richard Spilman
• “Stardust” by Colette Tennant
• “Over Dust” by Darius Atefat-Peckham
• “Perfidious Under Fire” by C. Wade Bentley
• “Sometimes Peter, But Never Paul” by Laurie Uttich
• “NPR Reports” by Sherrill Vore
• “Escape” by Linda Whittenberg
• “Rosemary Lamb” by Kenny Williams
• from “Wolfe” by Donald Mace Williams
• “My Prince” by Nathalia Bernstein
• “Questions for Lyudmila” by Marie-Aline Roemer
• “The Everyday” by Michael Bazzett
• “I Have This Fantasy” by Heather Bell
• “A Brief History of Poetry” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
• “Do Not Walk Outside This Area” by Steven Dondlinger
• “Lana Del Rey Intervenes When She Notices I’ve Stopped Writing About My Ex” by Megan Falley
• “Let’s Say the Rain” by Oscar Brady
• “How Florida Lost Its Edge” by Damian Caudill
• “Howard’s Funeral” by Alan Fox
• “Autobiography” by Jackie Fox
• “Biscuit” by Hannah Gamble
• “Edifying Just to See” by Hannah Gamble
• from a Conversation with Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• “I Remember the Squirrel” by Oscar Brady
• “Dolphin Legend of the World Before” by Janice D. Soderling
• “The Last Time I Used the N Word” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Wakening” by Jessica Goodfellow
• “Slurry Cleanse” by Steve Henn
• “An Idea She Got from Oprah” by Joel F. Johnson
• “Dear Yeobo,” by Tanya Ko
• “Cats” by Vivienne Charpentier
• “The Descent of the Germanwings” by Chera Hammons
• “Town Crier” by Ron Koertge
• “Q & A” by Ron Koertge
• “Saturday Morning 6-22-2013” by Greg Kosmicki
• “Alimentum” by Len Krisak
• “Godfather Death” by Rebecca Lehmann
• “Stars” by Katherine Chritton
• “The Poetry Lesson” by Jackleen Holton
• “The Man Who Was Thursday” by Christopher McCurry
• “Lesbians or Exchange Students” by Matt Muth
• “A Six-Box & Dried Legumes” by James Proffitt
• “The Reductionist” by Charles Rafferty
• “Water Fall” by Kailani Bird Clarke
• “Feeling Fucked Up” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
• “The Roofers” by Mather Schneider
• “Divorce and Astronauts” by Jesse Valentine
• “The Robert Frost Kickball Club” by Maceo J. Whitaker
• “Waiting in Vain” by Craig van Rooyen
• “My Father Worked Piece-Rate at the Schult Mobile Home Plant” by Josh Bontrager
• “Potpourri” by Liz N. Clift
• “Section B, Page 6” by Meryl Stratford
• “Taxonomy of an Automobile Accident” by Samantha Deal
• “How to Meet the Love of Your Life: A Basic Guide” by Stephen Kampa
• “The Reality Auction” by James Davis May
• “Holy Shitballs!” by Jack Powers
• “Location’s Everything” by Steven Dondlinger
• “National Poetry Month” by Will Nixon
• “A Story” by Sarah Pemberton Strong
• “The Night Relies” by Wendy Videlock
• “Fathers” by Mike White
• “The Nightly Villanelle of Their Twelfth Year” by Shangrila Willy
• “Pixel Poetry: A Meritocracy” by Colin Ward
• “My Cat” by Cody Dane
• “The Polar Bear” by Jennifer Givhan
• “Genetics” by Roberta Beary
• “Presbyopia” by Roberta Beary
• “Three Translations” by David Bowles
• “Three Haiku” by Helen Buckingham
• “Elegy for Madrid” by Catherine Ruffing
• “Untitled” by Kainani Chuc Dowell
• “Unsigned Mother’s Day Card” by Bayleigh Cardinal
• “Five Haiku” by Billy Collins
• “from HAIKU IN CONCRETE” by Michael Luis Dauro
• “from HAIKU IN CONCRETE (2)” by Michael Luis Dauro
• “What If” by Peter Fiore
• “Standing Naked” by Charles P. Ries
• “A City” by Kofi Edufo
• “After the Boston Marathon Bombing” by Susan Cohen
• “Three Haiku” by Richard J. Fleming
• “Three Haiku” by Richard Gilbert
• “Four Senryū” by Jeff Haas
• “After Fukushima” by Mariko Kitakubo
• “2B” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Let Me Write a Poem” by Hazel W. Frew
• “Inheritance” by A.J. Bradley
• “Three Haiku” by Jee Leong Koh
• “Four Haiku” by Deborah P. Kolodji
• “Five Senryū” by Timothy Liu
• “Working with Ghosts” by Bob Lucky
• from a Conversation with Richard Gilbert
• “Remember” by Emily Garroway
• “Memorial Day 2015” by Abby E. Murray
• “from Salaryman (Umami)” by Michael Mejia
• “from Salaryman (To Arrange Oneself)” by Michael Mejia
• “from Salaryman (No George)” by Michael Mejia
• “from Salaryman (A Certain Sorrow)” by Michael Mejia
• “The Dangerous Hermit for the Motorcycle Betrayer” by Diane Wakoski
• “What Am I Doing” by Charlie Gerson
• “To Caitlyn Jenner” by Suzanne Langlois
• “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms” by Marsh Muirhead
• “Willows on the Crow” by Marsh Muirhead
• “Four Haiku” by Marsh Muirhead
• “Three Haiku and a Tanka” by George Swede
• “Getting Tough with John Ruskin” by Ron Koertge
• “Painting Music” by Madeleine Shea Gerson
• “Escape Envy” by Ace Boggess
• “Basho’s Hut: A Haibun” by Kenny Tanemura
• “Simple Tanka Prose for the Seasons” by Charles Tarlton
• “Haiku Sequence” by John Samuel Tieman & Walter Bargen
• “Musashi-san” by Jack Vian
• “Teeny Tiny” by Matthew Murrey
• “Comfort” by Sophya Giudici-Juarez
• “Landscape with Questions” by Patrick Ryan Frank
• “Midday Heat: A Twenty-Stanza Renku” by Jonathan Weinert & Debra Kang Dean
• “True Colours” by Michael Dylan Welch
• “Our Neruda” by Mike Bove
• “Trigger Warning” by Jackson Burgess
• “Abduction” by Kate Gaskin
• “Lunch” by Maci Modean Greenberg
• “After the Vigil for the Charleston Church Massacre” by Stevie Edwards
• “Anniversary” by Erik Campbell
• “What I Mean When I Use the Term, ‘Witch Doctor Sad'” by Erik Campbell
• “One Defense” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Muybridge” by L.M. Ferreira
• “Cuscatlán” by Zoë Anglesey
• “An Unexpected Knocking About” by Maci Modean Greenberg
• “Hillanelle” by A.M. Juster
• “Mortality” by Lola Haskins
• “KGB Orchestra at the High School Prom” by John Herschel
• “Whenever I Peel an Orange” by Greg Kosmicki
• “Phantom Limb” by Abby E. Murray
• “A Shipwrecked Person” by James Tate
• “My Terrible Sister” by Nick Hébert
• “In Praise of Jonathan Matthew” by Kerrin McCadden
• “Deep Water” by Christopher Presfield
• “Portrait of the Second Wife as Understudy” by Amber Rambharose
• “Somali Shopping for Organic Figs” by James Tate
• “Orange Groves & Fairy Tales” by Diane Wakoski
• “People of the Megabus” by Justin Barisich
• “Connections” by Nora Hunter
• “Let Me Tell You About One Night Stands” by Bayleigh Cardinal
• “Fragments of a Shooting Script” by Ryan Black
• “Hold Me Like You’ll Never Let Me Go” by Susana H. Case
• “Neighbor” by Bill Christophersen
• “At Jury Duty” by Coco de Casscza
• “Route 9” by Martin Willitts Jr.
• “Balloons” by Jayden Jones
• “Sandy Speaks” by Tiana Clark
• “I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom” by Kim Dower
• “Pilgrimage” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Continuing Education” by Linda S. Gottlieb
• “But How Can You Name What You Don’t Have” by Michele Lent Hirsch
• “Sappho’s Bracelets” by Diane Wakoski
• “Wind Chime” by Kavya M.
• “What Do You Give” by Amy Elizabeth Robinson
• “New Poems” by Jan Heller Levi
• “Miss Jacklyn Analyzes Love” by Arden Levine
• “Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea” by Martin H. Levinson
• “And They’re Running” by Peter Marcus
• “Make Bare the Leg, Uncover the Thigh” by Zoe Reed
• “Smokey’s Blue Eyes” by Abigail Miranda Miller
• “Rhymes with Banish” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Our First Five Days in the Country” by Joan Murray
• “Offering” by Harry Newman
• “In a Room at the Marriott Marquis” by Myra Shapiro
• “Central Park Zoo, 1970” by Katherine Barrett Swett
• “Ram Tested on Mount Vert” by Grant Quackenbush
• “She Wore Yellow” by Abbie Minard
• “Sky Beer” by Rayon Lennon
• “The Poe Cottage, 1992” by Katherine Barrett Swett
• “After” by Marilynn Talal
• from a Conversation with Jan Heller Levi
• “1969” by Luke Bauerlein
• “Cruelest of All Are the Gods Who Never Frown” by Michael Meyerhofer
• “The Evening Stroll” by Rachel Mueller
• “Mignon” by Dore Kiesselbach
• “Watching the Wizard of Oz in Prison” by Ace Boggess
• “Rehab” by David Bottoms
• “Career Self-Assessment” by Dennis Caswell
• “Giving Birth” by Meg Eden
• “Government Work” by Stuart Redpath
• “I Asked” by Nathaniel Schott
• “Selfie” by Nausheen Eusuf
• “Eros” by Joseph Fasano
• “In Diminuendo” by Richard Fenwick
• “Horsefly” by Fred Fox
• “Clusters” by Martin Ott
• “Peace and Rain” by Zoey Sheffield
• “Ghazal: Back Home” by Zeina Hashem Beck
• “She Took Everything in the Room With Her as She Went” by Bill Freedman
• “In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit” by Catherine Freeling
• “Burial for a Stray” by Don Kimball
• “One Among a Thousand Possible Versions” by Alison Luterman
• “While Walking Through the Churchyard” by Kenneth O’Keefe
• “The Woman” by Briar Spungin
• “I Am Michael Derrick Hudson:” by Sam Cha
• “At the Playground” by Kathleen McGookey
• 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
• “Ars Poetica” by Mary Meriam
• “I Dream I Dance with My Sister” by Scott Miles
• “Ice House” by Ann Giard-Chase
• “Mad World” by Mackenzie Tatananni
• “The English Teacher Who Mistook a Clock for a Bomb” by Alejandro Escudé
• “Essential Tremor” by Donald Platt
• “Lorazepam” by Sam Sax
• “The Record of Conduct Book” by Knud Sørensen
• “Nautilus Shell” by Wally Swist
• “Offering” by Arnold Perrin
• “Station Manager” by Catherine Valdez
• “Daraprim” by Kayla Rae Candrilli
• “Finality” by Rob Talbert
• “What Ever Happened to …?” by William Trowbridge
• “Keychain Peep Show” by William Trowbridge
• “To the Man About to Put the Lampshade on His Head” by Ken Wagner
• “Seventy-Five Kimonos” by Lynn Pattison
• “The Dream of Flight” by Michael Wang
• “Two Variations on a Triolet with Refrains from President Obama’s Statement on the Shooting in Roseburg, Oregon” by Gary Leising
• “The Basic Question” by Len Anderson
• “Joint National Commissions Galore” by Daniel Becker
• “Turing Test” by Dennis Caswell
• “Tohoku Ghost Stories” by Meg Eden
• “What Can You Do?” by Charles Bukowski
• “Black Horse” by Railey Warren
• “The Gun and the Gown” by Conor Kelly
• “The Non-Euclidean Universe” by Anna M. Evans
• “How to Pray” by Annelyse Gelman
• “Mummies” by Richard Hedderman
• “Grandmother:” by Ilana Kelsey
• “Sister Moon” by Jane Williams
• “Life” by Caitlyn Wickham
• “Things That Happen” by Emmalee Hagarman
• “Four Haiku” by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• “Tuning Fork” by Ruth Madievsky
• “If This Is Middle Age Then I’ll Die at 93.667” by Peter Munro
• from A Conversation with Peter Munro
• “Things You Cannot Answer” by Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson
• “Synesthesia” by Allison Wise
• “Ossuary” by Ariana Brown
• “Advice to a New Postdoc” by John Nimmo
• “Curie in Love” by Erin Noteboom
• “Inertia Violated” by Edward Nudelman
• “Cleaning” by Katrina Outland
• “Night” by Jianqing Zheng
• “I Wish” by E. Wen Wong
• “The Headline Reads Processed Meat Causes Cancer, Says WHO” by Katherine Lo
• “How the River” by Julia Runcie
• “You Might Think This Is What Happens” by Amy Schrader
• “Dog Sitting in Snow” by Matthew J. Spireng
• “Five Types of Confidence” by Arthur J. Stewart
• “There Have Come Soft Rains” by John Philip Johnson and Julian Peters
• “Time” by Tianyue Xia
• “Resignation” by Akua Lezli Hope
• “Pathetic” by Suzanne Zeitman
• “Ghostly Heron” by George Bilgere
• “Home (Initial Findings)” by Franny Choi
• “Oranges” by Lauren S. Cook
• “St. Andrew’s Head” by Kevin Pilkington
• “Mini Poems” by Tianyue Xia
• “Moments of Silence” by Joanna Lee
• “Enchilada Night” by Mike Faran
• “Ashes to …” by Alan Fox
• “A Prayer for Ducks” by Ethan Joella
• “Buying Produce from the Marked-Down Cart” by Lynn Levin
• “Kamakura Beach, 1333” by Mary Kendall
• “View from My Long Beach Study” by C.E. Chaffin
• “Perpetuation of the Species” by Jessica Goodfellow
• “In the End” by Nina Lindsay
• “If You Really Aren’t a Racist Take This Online Test” by Lisa Martin
• “Roly-Poly Bodhisattva” by Michael Mark
• “At the Artists’ Colony” by James Davis May
• “Shame at Eight” by Bronwen Butter Newcott
• “The View from the Café” by Matt Quinn
• “Level 4: Brussels” by Susana H. Case
• “Together in the Back Yard” by Jack Ridl
• “Tired” by Anele Rubin
• “1WTC” by Adam Scheffler
• “When They Told Me You Had Died” by Thadra Sheridan
• “On Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Pelvis With The Distance'” by Christopher Buckley
• “The Spool: A Prisoner’s Lament” by Frederic W. Bertoff
• “America Listen Allen Ginsberg Is Calling You Again” by Lynne Knight
• Haiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
• “Stalin” by Sarah Pemberton Strong
• “Holiday Tale” by Dennis Trudell
• “Vision” by Irene Wellman
• “Revisiting My Vita” by Grace Bauer
• “Trumped-Up” by Lisa DeSiro
• “So, If Everyone Jumped Off a Bridge” by Mike White
• “Watermark” by Susan Levin
• “A Woman like That with Problems like Those” by Lisa Glatt
• “The French Lesson” by Michael C. Ford
• “An Hour to Dance” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
• “Map to the Moon” by Matthew Murrey
• “Watching the Sunset Together with a Bird” by Ramandeep Johal
• “Fair Warning” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
• “Red Camellias ” by Virginia Hamilton Adair
• “Bequest: Coat to the Pompidou” by Jim Barnes
• “Carol” by Hillary Bartholomew
• “The Campaign Before Christmas” by Lorna Davis
• “Divining” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
• “A Toast” by Wendy Videlock
• “Picnics” by Donald Hall
• “Playing Ball” by Donald Hall
• “Her Living” by Rosemary Adam
• “In a Name” by Rosemary Adam
• “The Origin of Kindness” by D.M. Aderibigbe
• “Flowering” by Gabriella Alexis
• “What Would You Say If You Were Tamir Rice & You Had Two Seconds—” by Chaun Ballard
• “A Total Non-Apology” by Rachael Briggs
• “Cocktail Hour” by Michael Brosnan
• “Blood Brothers” by Mishal Agha
• “The Theory of Everything—Science, Religion, Grammar School, Surfing, & the 99¢ Store” by Christopher Buckley
• “The Flower Thinking” by Lakelynn Amelia
• “This Refuge, from Its Very Inception, Has Been a Tool of Tyranny” by Pepper Trail
• “The Orb Weaver” by Thomas Carrigan
• “Major Tom Turns into Light” by Colin Pope
• “Show Up” by Paul Cummins
• “Compassion for the Minotaur” by Terry Blackhawk
• “New Country” by Richard Donnelly
• “Oatmeal” by Maeve Wander Amoroso
• “Whatever It Is, It Comes in Waves” by M.L. Clark
• “The Movies” by Richard Donnelly
• “The Crossing” by Stephen Dunn
• “Sometimes” by Doris Ferleger
• “Untitled” by Angela Johnson
• “The Kneeling Man” by Dennis Finnell
• “Teeth” by Maeve Wander Amoroso
• “Elegy: #LeilaAlaoui” by Maureen Doallas
• “Internet Word of the Day: Hemidemisemiquaver” by Glenn Freeman
• “After My Friend Phyllis Shows Me the New York Times Obituary Headline” by Rosemerry Trommer
• “Summers with Martha” by Dan Gerber
• “Contrails” by D.R. James
• “‘It’s Been a Week …” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• “The Bee Finds a Home” by Priya Bartlett
• “Late January Thaw, Refugees, Fragments” by Aliki Barnstone
• “Surrender” by Pat Hanahoe-Dosch
• “Hamlet Off-Stage: Don’t Country This Snapper” by D.C. Berry
• “Entanglement” by Kimberly G. Jackson
• “A Bowl of Fruit” by Stephen Dunn
• “Bird” by Jennifer Jean
• “The Blossoms Awake” by Priya Bartlett
• “I’m Drinking in Bed” by Cade Leebron
• “Rufous Hummingbird” by Amaris Feland Ketcham
• “To the Red Fire Monkey” by Jonel Abellanosa
• “The Twenty-Year Workshop” by Lynne Knight
• “Politicians” by Rebecca Starks
• from A Conversation with Lester Graves Lennon
• “The Whispering of the Wind” by Kaye Marion Campbell
• “Look at That, You Son of a Bitch” by Peg Duthie
• 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award
• “Fantasy Football” by Lester Graves Lennon
• “The Music of Time” by Philip Levine
• “Cognitive Dissonance” by Jeffrey McRae
• “It Won’t Make the News” by Rosemerry Trommer
• “Todestrieb” by Amy Newell
• “Winter” by Kaye Marion Campbell
• “Electing Hell” by Elizabeth Weaver
• “Three Poems” by Rolli
• “New House” by Geraldine Connolly
• “The Prayer” by Rachel Rose
• “Anatomy of a Fustercluck” by Stephanie L. Harper
• “So We Beat Them” by Ed Shacklee
• “Translation Makeover” by Emma Cawood
• “Chillary Clinton Said ‘We Have to Bring Them to Heal'” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
• “Donts and Dews” by Saint James Harris Wood
• “Electorate” by Leah Tieger
• “How to Read Billy Collins” by Jeff Worley
• “The Wreck” by Mike Catalano
• “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” by Christopher Citro
• “Fat and Happy” by Lela Childs
• “Signs” by Kai Carlson-Wee
• “Work in Progress” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “On Access” by Victoria Kornick
• “The Glance” by Jennifer Givhan
• “Half Hearted” by Cheri L. R. Taylor
• “Morning at the Welfare Office” by Valentina Gnup
• “Sometimes” by H. Sky Clay
• “Elegy” by David Miller
• “Old Age Requires the Greatest Courage” by Red Hawk
• “March 9th, Dusk” by Catherine Pond
• “More Than This” by David Kirby
• “Balloon” by E. G. Burrows
• “Yesterday” by Travis Mossotti
• “My Fish Story” by Cody Dane
• “I Don’t Quite Know What to Think of You, Mother” by Meera Jhala
• “Sugar Babe” by Cherise A. Pollard
• “Images of Kurt Cobain’s Shotgun Released” by William Fargason
• “Deus Ex Machina” by Melissa King Rogers
• “There, in Folded Space, We Must Have Met” by Rommel Chrisden Samarita
• “Elegy” by Patricia Smith
• “The Bee” by Jade Foo
• “B-Word” by Judith H. Montgomery
• “Equilibrium” by Tiana Clark
• “Candidate” by Clint Margrave
• “Crazy-Eights” by T. M. Cox
• “In the Museum of Cold Ideas” by Ginny Lowe Connors
• “Vagus Nerve” by Lisa Baird
• “Dad’s Loving Cat” by Jade Foo
• “Letter to a Tardigrade” by E.E. Lampman
• “Boulder County, September 2012” by Michele Battiste
• “Rootbound” by John Paul Davis
• “Five Haiku” by Roberta Beary
• “Home Movie” by Eileen Doherty
• “While Trying to Write a Novel” by Heather Bell
• “Rinforzando” by Sophya Giudici-Juarez
• “To the Woman Who Ruled ‘Every Rape Is Not a Gender-Motivated Hate Crime'” by Bayleigh Cardinal
• “Rocking” by Claire Blotter
• “Letter to God” by Mark Doty
• “Morning” by Leila Chatti
• “Depositions” by Jeffrey L. Dye
• 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner
• “My Mother Comes Home Crying from GE” by Ann Clark
• “Tracks” by Ella Goldberg
• “From Nigeria to New Zealand” by Sonia Greenfield
• “Women” by Barbara Crooker
• “Jan Böhmermann the Great” by Wederic Eubals
• “Stairway to Heaven Sonnet” by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
• “A Timely Message” by John E. Buri
• “Pervert” by Julie R. Enszer
• “Cuernavaca, Mexico” by Faith Gomez
• “Purple Rain” by Luisa Muradyan Tannahill
• “The C-Section” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• “To Lose and Catch the Trail” by Claire Kruesel
• “Apron Strings” by Beth Gylys
• “The Balcony Collapses and I Become a Bird” by Rebecca Valley
• “When I Say I Bruise Easily” by Kelsey Hagarman
• “Beast” by Zachary Hale
• “MTA” by Maisie Williams
• “After Easter” by Sandra Kohler
• A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan
• “Channellock Pliers” by Amy Miller
• “Ros and Guild, 1994” by Arlene Ang
• “Prayer on National Childfree Day” by Abby E. Murray
• “Chanel No. 5” by Katharine Henderson
• “Profane Androgen” by Brody Parrish Craig
• “Dissonance” by Jenny Qi
• “Harbinger” by Ilyse Kusnetz
• “from The Baby Hygiene Series” by Jessy Randall
• “To My Wife (in the Kitchen Attempting Pancakes)” by Robert Arroyo, Jr.
• “Flashdance” by Laura Read
• “Dreams” by Sophia Hopkins
• “Gun of a Bitch” by Jay Sizemore
• “Machetes: Several” by Lucinda Roy
• “The Healthcare System” by Jana Harris
• “When Miguelito Should Have Been Sleeping” by Yaccaira Salvatierra
• “In Bed with Another Man’s Idea” by Allen C. Fischer
• “Invisible” by Ann Giard-Chase
• “Fun with Xerox” by Amber Shockley
• “Western Haiku” by Lucy Johnston
• “At the Circus” by P.C. Vandall
• “Malignant” by Robin Silbergleid
• “Fried Fish Cafe” by Charles Simic
• “Women Only Write About Themselves” by Julie Steiner
• “[Here, Said the Ocean]” by Rodrigo Dela Pena, Jr.
• “On Coming Home” by Lisa Summe
• “Four of Arrows” by Emma Karnes
• “No Urdu in Dilli, Mian” by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
• “Dust” by Katherine Barrett Swett
• “Only the Stink Will Linger” by K.A. Ghazi
• “And the Women Said” by Kelly Grace Thomas
• “Betrayed” by Arthur Gottlieb
• “Zumba Gold at 9 AM” by Amy Uyematsu
• “The Path” by Shenu Kathymoon
• “Endangered” by Akua Lezli Hope
• “I Would Rather Be Gay than Straight Any Day …” by Julie Marie Wade
• “Little Song (Altar)” by Mark Wagenaar
• “To Choose Each Other Perpetually” by Sara Watson
• “Midsummer” by Charles Simic
• “When I Think About Cats” by Francesca Bell
• “Candle” by Ethan Kim
• “I Am Over Here Sobbing” by Amy Miller
• “Boomer” by George Bilgere
• “Prayer for Anything but Prayer” by Chris Emslie
• “Post-Op” by Taylor Collier
• “Underneath a Car on the Highroad Between Abergavenny and Blaenarvon” by Alexander James
• “May Day” by Billy Collins
• “The Night” by Frances Liebert
• “While Reading the News About Orlando, I Hear the Call to Prayer” by Leila Chatti
• “Lamb” by Russell Colver
• “Alligators” by Jackleen Holton
• “How My Mother Spends Her Nights” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
• “Alone in Love” by Mary Meriam
• “Late” by M
• “Cliffs and the House by the Shore” by Shoshanah Celia Machlay
• “World’s Smallest Snail Record Broken, Again” by Ryan Dzelzkalns
• “Have You Ever Woken” by James B. Nicola
• “The Void” by Wendy Videlock
• “Paper Birds Don’t Fly” by Al Ortolani
• “Sully: Sixteen Months” by C.K. Williams
• “The Uncertaintest Word” by Christine Poreba
• “My Kitty” by Eva Mathew
• “Who Speaks for the Rock Snot?” by Patricia O’Neil
• “Oldguy: Superhero—Associate” by William Trowbridge
• “Ghazal on Independence Day” by Bayleigh Cardinal
• “Oldguy: Superhero—A Steady Hand” by William Trowbridge
• “Footsteps (Old and New)” by Barry Ballard
• “A Few More Notes on My Fall from the Middle Class” by Resa Alboher
• “Roar” by Rylee McBride
• “The Dead Line” by Nicole Homer
• “For Yumi Sakugawa” by Allan Aquino
• “Digital Anthropologists Find Our Hashtags” by Nordette N. Adams
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• “Complications” by Nigel Hinshelwood
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• “When They Come for Us on the 7 Train” by Ananda Lima
• “The Strings” by Cory Massaro
• “Yesterday We Were Asked to Write from a Place of #RevolutionaryLove …” by Amy Elizabeth Robinson
• “Engineer” by Paula Mendoza
• “A Town of Mirrors and Quaking Forty-Fours” by Richard Manly Heiman
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• “Final Shirt” by Marjorie Saiser
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• “Marilyn Monroe” by Alex Clifford
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• “Mama’s Nightmare” by J.B. Bernstein
• “The Question Ever” by Wendy Videlock
• “Diss” by Makaila Dean
• “After a Long Journey” by Cristi Donoso Best
• “I Have Been Counting My Regrets” by Wendy Videlock
• “Orpheus Alone” by Mark Strand
• “Ode to Defeat” by Sung Yim
• “After Studying Matisse’s Pianist and Checker Players at Midnight” by Lou Green
• “The Nurse Lifts the Clipboard & Replaces All Your Vital Signs” by Noah Baldino
• “Justice” by Jessie Matilde Finlay-Murcia
• “Happy” by Nanci Lee
• “Poem Written in the Sixth Month of My Wife’s Illness” by Ellen Bass
• “Labor and Delivery” by Michelle Bitting
• “Spin” by C. Wade Bentley
• “Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive!” by Emily Sernaker
• “The Sharpened Shears He Plied” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Brown Island” by Liam Fox
• “What We Did in the Resistance (Part 1)” by Alison Luterman
• “Upon Receiving My Inheritance” by William Fargason
• “Tanka (Lonely Highway)” by Tracy Davidson
• “Superposition of States” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
• “Threading North and South” by Matthew Murrey
• “This Living Hand” by David Kirby
• “Shadow of a Shadow” by Niko Galifianakis
• “Homesickness” by Robert Peake
• “Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015” by Craig Santos Perez
• “Elegy for a Bayou” by Christopher Cessac
• “The Visit” by Emily Ransdell
• “Togetherness in the Age of Terror” by Rachel Custer
• “A Memory on the Eve of the Return of the U.S. Military to Subic Bay” by Patrick Rosal
• “The African American Tale” by Jeremiah Givhan
• “What I Would Tell My Daughter on Her First Day of Work” by Amy Miller
• “Veins” by Julie Price Pinkerton
• “Bids for Border Wall Now Being Taken” by Ellen Steinbaum
• “An Englishman Never Ventures Far Without Certain Necessities” by David Citino
• “National Poetry Month, 2017” by Dante Di Stefano
• “Even Rottweilers Sing” by Tim Amsden
• “I Am Me” by Asha Glenn
• “How I Survived” by Chaun Ballard
• “I Had a Window” by Lisa Badner
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• “Taxi Court” by Lisa Badner
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• “Modern American Gothic” by Stephen Harvey
• “Rally” by Rodney Gomez
• “The Pirate” by Eve Hickey
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• “Triptych: Dream, Convenience Store, Bar” by A.M. Juster
• “I Speed Toward the Moon” by Constance Hanstedt
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• “Lessons” by Gabriela Igloria
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• “Lada’s Lessons” by Arthur McMaster
• “Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access to Health Care” by Jen Karetnick
• “The Man Peeling Sweet Potatoes on Easter Morning” by Bruce Niedt
• “Poetry” by John E. Buri
• “Why We Climb Mountains” by Marti Noel
• “It’s Just So Hard” by Ahunna Ike-Njoku
• “I Heart James Comey” by Alejandro Escudé
• “The Codified Book” by Bradley Thomas
• “Fifties San Francisco: A Child’s Story” by K.F. Hastings
• “At the Forestry Institute, Hanoi” by Pepper Trail
• “America” by Meg Pokrass
• “8” by Joanna Jimenez
• “Suicide Note” by Steve Henn
• “Playing with Matches” by Jane Wheeler
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• “Smudge” by Malachi Jones
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• “Animal Densities” by Steven Chung
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• “Still Life with Birds” by Wendy Mitman Clarke
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• “Night Howls” by Penny Harter
• “The Second Deaf Rabbi in America” by Hannah Karp
• “The Untranslatable Word” by Jackleen Holton
• “Three Prominent People” by Lola Haskins
• “Desire for Melody” by Larry Colker
• “I Lie on a Hammock Imagining a Ten Count” by Tom C. Hunley
• “The Crap House Wall” by Gwen Hummel
• “Roadside” by Ted Kooser
• “An Inheritance: A Sestina” by Saxon Kennedy
• “After the Paris Accord” by Carter Smith
• “The Sick Bat” by Ted Kooser
• “Goya Could Have Painted This” by Douglas Blazek
• “Dear Body” by Shireen Madon
• “Republican in Red” by Alejandro Escudé
• “To Her Husband for Beating Her” by Gwerful Mechain
• “The Messenger” by Madeline King
• “Lordy” by Joan Colby
• “Hang Float Burn Bury” by David Miller
• “Double Helix” by Bob Johnston
• “Elegy with an Elementary School Christmas Concert Streaming Through It” by Leah Nielsen
• “Birds of a Feather” by Lianne Kamp
• “I Tell Death, Eventually” by Jennifer Perrine
• “Technicolor” by Roey Leonardi
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• “Receptionist (1972)” by Christine Potter
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• “Traveler” by Sarah Satterlee
• “She Tells Him of Her Fears” by Priyam Goswami Choudhury
• “I Stole a Day” by Bob Sawyer
• “Take Me to My Grandmother’s Shrine …” by Shoshanah Celia Machlay
• “A Town Praying for Rain” by Megan Merchant
• “I Have Confidence” by Emily Sernaker
• “Questions of the Heart” by David Jordan
• “Boardwalk Empire” by Truth Thomas
• “Home” by Judith Tate O’Brien
• “Whiteout” by William Trowbridge
• “We Don’t Talk About That” by Lex Lizbeth Martin
• “Another Argument for Trying to Live, Even in These Times” by Luisa A. Igloria
• “Separation” by Michael Dylan Welch
• “The Myth of Sisyphus” by David Hernandez
• “Twelve Weeks” by Melanie Wright
• “The Last Days of Baseball” by Jennifer Rane Hancock
• “Your Shipwreck or Mine?” by Sandra M. Yee
• “The Old Wood Fence” by Arden McCutcheon
• “Truck Carrying Live Eels Overturns on Highway 101” by Brittney Corrigan
• “Lunch Break” by Roberta Beary
• “Have You Forgotten” by Heather Bell
• “Containment” by Francesca Bell
• “Blue Rain Clouds, Reddish Ground, and Tall Crosses” by Jose Rizal Reyes
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• “Things to Ask Your Mother” by Michael Unger
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• “Crazy, They Said” by Cinthia Ritchie
• “Nihilist in Bloom at a Retail Store” by Magda Werkmeister
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• “Buddha’s Villanelle” by Dana Stamps II
• “A Bedtime Story” by Rhode Winward
• “She” by Eric Steineger
• “After Reading a 12/4/2001 Associated Press Report” by Padma Thornlyre
• “Home That Would Not Let Us Stay” by Bola Opaleke
• “Diversity Checkbox: When I Was Twelve” by Jill M. Talbot
• “At Bottom (May 1982)” by Herman Asarnow
• “The Day I Tried to Committ Seppuku …” by Martin Vest
• “The Secret of Life” by Gemma Wong
• “That Feeling” by Devon Balwit
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• “Elegy for a Spacecraft” by Raye Hendrix
• “The Knife” by Jess Weitz
• “Trajectory” by Ann Giard-Chase
• “The Hatred of Poetry” by Sandra Anfang
• “Child” by Audrey Zhao
• “We Saw Mother!” by Barry Peters
• “The Chandlers” by Tom Chandler
• “A Widow Discovers Her Tires Are Bald …” by Perie Longo
• “400 Days” by Kevin Coval
• “Mint in Pots” by Ann Wuehler
• “Here” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Poor Pinocchio” by Mariah Young
• “If It’s the Last Thing I Do” by Dorianne Laux
• “Wake-Up Call” by Alan C. Fox
• “Being a Girl in My Father’s House” by Meghan Bechtel
• “What Isn’t Said Crushes” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• “The Ferryman” by Katie Bickham
• “Changing License Plates” by Ceridwen Hall
• “Tears” by Lev Shtrikman
• “Open Carry” by Rebecca Starks
• “Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las Explains It All to You” by David Kirby
• “Nothing Is Real in October” by Carol B. DeCanio
• “Cat Women of the Moon” by Ron Koertge
• “The Entire Act of Sorrow” by Taylor Mali
• “That Summer” by George Ovitt
• “When I Was Young” by Alexa Rakow
• “Everything That’s Old” by Dion O’Reilly
• “I Had a Librarian Tell Me That Poetry Chapbooks …” by Ron Riekki
• “The DAR’s Daughter” by Perie Longo
• “Letter Found in a Crate” by Francis Santana
• “Saved or Spared” by Devon Balwit
• “This Should Be a Good Poem” by Steve Abbott
• “If I Were a Picture” by Heather Fox
• “Now, When I Think About Women” by Emily Sernaker
• “Pardoning the Turkey” by Caroline Barnes
• “4 O’Clock in the Morning” by Alan Catlin
• “New Fruit Humming” by Cameron Barnett
• “Sonnet for the Hole in the Glass” by Zoë Brigley Thompson
• “Coyote Country” by Milton Bates
• “When You Told Me You Were an Alcoholic” by Anna Vitale
• “MMXVII” by Aaron Poochigian
• “Pancake Dilemma” by George Bilgere
• “The Blessing” by Jeff Whitney
• “Six Reasons I Can’t Answer the Door for You at Three in the Morning” by Sarah Carson
• “Love Letter to Posco (Shiri)” by Bob Branaman
• “Medi-Maze” by Eric Chiles
• “The Trail of Your Footsteps” by Suzanne Catalano
• “Violence Fractal” by Molly Fisk
• “Work Is What It Is” by Nic Custer
• Two Poems by Chris Kingsley
• “Kid” by Rachel Custer
• “Finding Religion” by Alan Harawitz
• “Prodigal Son Returns to Warren, Michigan” by Jim Daniels
• “Gray” by Valerie M. Smith
• “Partial List of Men” by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
• “Cracks” by Todd Davis
• “I Can’t Close My Eyes Without Seeing Jason Pero’s Body” by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
• “The Patron Saint of Boredom” by Sarah Wylder Deshpande
• “Lonni Little River” by Mike Catalano
• “I Say Cathedral When I Mean Gunpowder” by William Evans
• “The Last Look” by Matthew Kinzelberg
• “Though the Stars Walk Backward” by Devi S. Laskar
• “Who Am I?” by Kelly Fordon
• “Rrose Sélavy No Longer Sings ‘La Vie en Rose’” by Grace Bauer
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• “You Moved Your Whole Town” by Paul T. Corrigan
• “I Hear America Rusting” by Kamal E. Kimball
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• “New Guide to the Quasi-Political” by Cade Leebron
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• “Palimony” by Ed Ruzicka
• “Calculus” by Joel Chace
• “Graduate Student, Age 27, with a History of Sexual Harassment …” by Mia Kang
• “After the Reading by the Famous Poet” by Laszlo Slomovits
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• “Elegy for the Child Who Did Not Die of SIDS” by Zachary Hester
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• “Rondo for the Night” by Mai-Lan Pham
• “Line” by Ananda Lima
• “This Is Not Loving” by Gail J. Peck
• “It Was Too Dark for a Light at the End of the Tunnel” by Bob Lucky
• “Edges” by Hugh Fox
• “That Summer” by Herbert Woodward Martin
• “I Hear Laughing” by Tonee Ales
• “My Daughter, the Snow Bomb” by Bunkong Tuon
• “The Bees and the Lightning” by Andrew Miller
• “Bowie” by Diana Goetsch
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• “Politics” by José Hernando Chaves
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• “Worried” by Thomas Ball
• “Speaking of Stable Geniuses” by Deborah Rasmussen
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• “Microcosmology” by Lee Rossi
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• “My Mother and I Beat a Dog” by Michael Sears
• “About Time” by Priya Bartlett
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• “Undergrads” by Matthew Buckley Smith
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• “A Few Minutes” by Dennis Trudell
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• “Here, She Said” by Chris Ransick
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• “Self-Portrait as Escape Artist” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
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• “Aftermath” by Jamey Hecht
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• “Half of Everything” by James Valvis
• “My Will Be Done” by Lisa C. Krueger
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• “A Political Poem” by Brian Wiora
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• “Getting Sober” by James Croal Jackson
• “Birthday” by Dave Margoshes
• “Tracers” by Robert Borden
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• “A Song and Dance” by Maria Cheriyan
• “I Want to Argue Like Dancing” by Surendriya Rao
• “The Sorrow’s Mine” by Sue O’Dea
• “Why So Many Penises (Or Should I Say, Pee-Ni?)” by Megan Falley
• “Bless Me, Editor” by Richard Prins
• “The New Shillin’/A Scarce of Tatties/Sweeney’s Buttermilk” by Philip Arnold
• “Formula for Frightening a Storm” tr. by Jennifer Reeser
• “Peppermint Tea” by Nathalie Chicoine
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• “Immaculate” by Christopher Soden
• “Hot Iron” by Mather Schneider
• “In Time” by Saumya Kedia
• “Please, Please, Please” by Lolita Stewart-White
• “This Is a Rhyming Poem” by James Crosse
• “Questions for Stephen Hawking” by Jill M. Talbot
• “Hands” by George Swede
• “Home” by Robert James Berry
• “Amen” by Mike White
• “Cobalt Blue” by Christine Michel
• “At the Annual Worley Family Reunion” by Jeff Worley
• “Greeting the Time in the Fall” by Jeffrey Diamond
• “Surveillance” by Craig Kurtz
• “Love Refrains” by Barbara Lydecker Crane
• “After Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Kravis in West Palm Beach” by Stephen Gibson
• “Girl Like” by Kayla Czaga
• “Bright Blue Muscle Car” by Mike Good
• “When You Are the Brownest White Girl” by Emari DiGiorgio
• “Alt-Dimension Exodus” by Mackenzie Dwyer
• “The Kids Are Alright” by Margaret Ray
• “How Tiresome” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “She Was Laughing into Her Mashed Potatoes” by Paul V. Murray
• “Upgrades” by Troy Jollimore
• “MEARCSTAPA” by Gardner Dorton
• “I Like Her” by Nancy Kangas
• “Vanilla Sweetpie the Dragon” by Isley Ellington
• “The Choicest Parts” by Jhoanna Belfer
• “Two Weeks with Pay” by Ron Koertge
• “The Man Kissed the Letter” by Erik Campbell
• “Bobby’s Story” by Jimmy Pappas
• “Still Life” by Anne Pitkin
• “Legend” by Scarlet Esparza-Pasos
• “I’m Sorry, Moon” by Jill M. Talbot
• “The Beautiful Particulars” by Alison Townsend
• “Eyes Wide Open” by Sam Hamill
• “Heard” by Rayon Lennon
• “Wildflowers” by Paul T. Corrigan
• “The Immigrant” by Yakov Azriel
• “Sweet Cherries” by Greta Geriguis
• “The Only Foreign Aid My Mother Ever Wanted Was Safety” by Ojo Taiye
• “Qí Páo” by Elizabeth T. Chao
• “Sisyphus” by Judy Barisonzi
• “Immigrant English Professor’s Lament on Assimilation” by Floyd Cheung
• “The Visitant” by Marietta McGregor
• “In Praise of Forgetting” by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
• “The World” by Ingrid Grabowski
• “Another Meeting in Panmunjom” by Jessamine Price
• “Final Portrait of the Sudanese” by Dalia Elhassan
• “Homeland:” by Marissa Davis
• “The First Time I Took My Gun to the Range” by Alejandro Escudé
• “Gophers” by Ellen Bass
• “Sonnet, with Redskins” by Chris Huntington
• “Mother’s Day Things” by Josephina Green
• “Pig Brain” by Matthew Murrey
• “Dear Federico,” by Luisa A. Igloria
• “Reality Homes” by Chris Anderson
• “Dear Mama,” by Maria Jastrzebska
• “In the Pipeline’s Path” by Annie Woodford
• “A Matter of Time” by Annie Kantar
• “I Am” by Sarah Hartenstine
• “Anything Worth Saving” by Chera Hammons
• “A Blonde Whispers Korean in My Ear” by Tanya Ko-Hong
• “The Wrong Person to Ask” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
• “To Thousand Island” by Sneha Madhavan-Reese
• “The Firing” by Marsh Muirhead
• “Prayer” by Sue O’Dea
• “Background Thoughts” by Eva Hays
• “Chiarascuro” by Joan Murray
• “Indian Beauty” by Yamini Pathak
• “Swimming Lesson” by Charles Harper Webb
• “Ranchi, India, 1966” by Divya Rajan
• “Facial Recognition” by Janice Zerfas
• “Watching Paint Dry” by Gene Tanta
• “Me” by Ja’Lantea Johnson
• “Shadow of a Flag” by D.A. Gray
• “What They Smuggled Across the Border” by Simona Chitescu Weik
• “Driverless” by José A. Alcántara
• “The Last Toothbrush” by Echo Wren
• “Your Favorite Writer Is Not Your Mother” by Jill M. Talbot
• “Europa” by Echo Wren
• “Blue” by Jane Josefowicz
• “Overwhelmed by Something” by Maddie Godfrey
• “Ambiguous Antecedents” by Scott Beal
• “Nine Surprising Things Worth More Than This Shimmering Metal” by Hannah V. Norman
• “Big Thing” by George Bilgere
• “Punishment” by Nancy Miller Gomez
• “Zumba with the Church Ladies” by Kate Buckley
• “Four Poems” by Caitlin Krastek
• “Remembering You, Anthony Bourdain, at the Elementary School Talent Show” by Alexandra Umlas
• “Miraculous Sawdust” by Bonnie Buhrow
• “Call If You Need Me” by Sonia Greenfield
• “Hush” by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
• “Stone City” by John Paul O’Connor
• “Ode to Red Lipstick” by Megan Falley
• “An ABC Breakfast” by Annie Li
• “DPRK – US” by Hsien Min Toh
• “Someone with a Megaphone” by Jocko Benoit
• “I Am Wanting” by Bob Hicok
• “Starfish” by Michael Strand
• “Going Big” by Bob Hicok
• “Future” by Gabriela Linarez-Rochin
• “I’m Sad with You” by Jackleen Holton
• “Wonder Woman Underoos” by Nicole Homer
• “In Memoriam” by Lynne Knight
• “Fish-Burger and Fries” by Lowell Jaeger
• “Dispatch from an Inland University” by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
• “They Said It Was a Weather Balloon” by Brad Johnson
• “The Funeral” by Ellis McGinley
• “Fear Is the Day That Isn’t Ordinary” by Linda Dove
• “Night Drive Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six Through Tunnels of Oak” by Jonathan Johnson
• “Redundancy Is Only a Problem When It Gets Repetitious:” by Bob Hicok
• “Patience” by Nancy Kangas
• “Stand Off” by Nancy Miller Gomez
• “On the Pier Where the Sign Reads ‘No Intentional Shark Catching'” by Julie Price Pinkerton
• “Mother Said” by Cathy Nie
• “Heat” by Ruth Bavetta
• “Phallogocentric” by Laura Read
• “Settling” by Paula Sergi
• “This All Happened on Earth” by Daniel Tompkins
• “Set This Book on Fire!” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• “They Began Late” by Kathleen A. Wakefield
• “Snow” by Tobi-Hope Park
• “Marooned” by Melissa Balmain
• “Practical Anatomy” by William H. Wandless
• “If Men Could” by Alida Rol
• “Dear Phil,” by Jeff Whitney
• “The Shape of Your Elbow” by Jack McGavick
• “Elegy for Charles Porter” by Lizabeth Yandel
• “Vague Existence” by McKenzie Renfrew
• “Can the President’s Hair” by Rosanne Osborne
• “No Name” by James Adams
• “Celebrate” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• “What Are You Doing Now?” by Elison Alcovendaz
• “Love Poem to My Wife, with Pigeons” by James Valvis
• “Midnight Lazaruses” by Chaun Ballard
• “Vanilla” by Jack Rhodehamel
• “After His Racist Tweets are Exposed During Baseball’s All-Star Game …” by William Evans
• “Gimmie Shelter” by Erinn Batykefer
• “How to Swim an Elegy” by Craig van Rooyen
• “Magicker” by T.J. DiFrancesco
• “Model Prison Model” by Terrance Hayes
• “Little Pretty Things” by Stephen Dunn
• “Mr. Sly” by Matthew Roller
• “A Cocky Poem” by Brittany Hause
• “Decorating a Cake While Listening to Tennis” by Peg Duthie
• “To the Firefighters Sleeping in the Yard” by Amy Miller
• “Grand Illusion” by Michael Estabrook
• “Workshirt Song for a Second Wife” by Kate Sontag
• “Shadow Boxing Late at Night” by Daniel Gleason
• “Candy Bandits” by Rosemary Santos
• “Chicago Street, Rainy Day” by Ruth Hoberman
• “Some Long Ago Summer” by Tony Gloeggler
• “Not About Anyone’s Hands” by JoLee G. Passerini
• “Modern Day Gladiator” by Alex Hoffman-Ellis
• “Crash” by Anna M. Evans
• “Heirloom” by A.M. Juster
• “Two Haiku” by Ayla Radha Schultz
• “Till She Appeared and the Soul Felt its Worth” by Craig van Rooyen
• “Fall” by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
• “Invoking the Muse in Cell Block B” by Nancy Miller Gomez
• “Calisthenics” by Laura Kolbe
• “Relic” by Ginny Lowe Connors
• “Golf with Bob” by Michael Mark
• “Blue” by Kelsea Sheffield
• “At the Border, Late Summer” by Esther Ra
• “Two from Searching for the Soul” by Tom Meschery
• “Sound and Sense” by Erik Campbell
• “Can We Know?” by Jack Ridl
• “Grave of a Tourist Trap” by Hannah V. Norman
• “Strangers” by Laszlo Slomovits
• “The Lost and Found” by Zoey Sheffield
• “For Michael and Louis” by Lauren Johnson
• “What Happens in Church” by Brent Terry
• “The Tale of the Earth” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
• “Should I Spill My Beer” by Martin Vest
• “Black Bells” by Diana Darby
• “The NFL on CTE” by Arlo Voorhees
• “Dear Holden,” by Julia Spande
• “Poem for John McCain” by Seth Simons
• “The Why of Bull Riding” by Guinotte Wise
• “The Divine Shadow” by H. Daniel Hettmannsperger III
• “Dog at the Farm” by Timothy DeJong
• “Waltzing Toward Slumber” by Marc Pietrzykowski
• “The Delivery Man” by Kim Dower
• “The Courting Rituals of Champagne Bottles” by Mayte Taipe
• “Kavanaugh Carwash” by Matt Dube
• “Hymn” by Joseph Fasano
• “Help” by Alan C. Fox
• “That Bit Me” by Matthew Murrey
• “Elemental Intelligence” by Conrad Geller
• “Drought” by Mae Tromsness
• “Machines” by Bayleigh Cardinal
• “Allurement” by Athena Kildegaard
• “In a James Dickey Poem” by Dante Di Stefano
• “A Cabbie in America” by David Mason
• “Sonnet for the Night Shift” by Kim Harvey
• “After Seeing a Picture in the New York Times …” by John Lazear Okrent
• “Crab” by Corinne Vicario
• “I Want to Burn the Frat House of America to the Ground” by Susan Nguyen
• “Choose Your Own Adventure: The Galápagos Mating Dance” by Caroline N. Simpson
• “An Incomplete List of Last-Minute Allegations” by Danielle DeTiberus
• “Compassionate Friends” by Anne Starling
• “The Tale of Postpartum” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
• “Marginalia” by Katherine Barrett Swett
• “Rain” by Dodge Warcken
• “This Is Only a Test” by Abby E. Murray
• “Prenuptial Agreement” by Stephen Taylor
• “Daylight Runs” by Steve Conway
• “Oldguy vs. The Riddler” by William Trowbridge
• “Takeoff” by Charles Owen Lawson
• “Winter’s Blues” by Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
• “The Cold Bench” by Alisha N. Wright
• “The Moon of a Moon is a Moonmoon” by Chera Hammons
• “Meditation on a Dining Room Table” by Marvin Artis
• “Ghazal for Kensington” by Sally O’Brien
• “Purple Hearts” by Marvin Artis
• “Lunacy” by Walter Bargen
• “Modern Form” by David Borman
• “The World’s Best Beef Lamian” by Lingyu Yan
• “Brett Kavanaugh Does the Dishes” by Katharine Harer
• “Slow Worship” by Justin KB
• “Seven Happy Endings” by Li-Young Lee
• “Handscape” by Caleb M.X. Dance
• “Beer, Buoy, Boat, Board” by Devon Balwit
• “Sonnet” by Kristian Doyle
• “Courtesy” by Minjung Yu
• “Just Fighting” by Sam Thilén
• “Ask” by Thomas Mann
• “The Happy Meditator” by Katherine Huang
• “Auschwitz I & II” by Farah Peterson
• “Jew” by Devon Balwit
• “Poem for a Blue Page” by Natasha Rao
• “Childhood Journey” by Susanne R. Bowers
• “The Migrant Caravan” by Alejandro Escudé
• “Twice” by Justy Rothe
• “On the Election” by Christine Potter
• “Singularity” by Julie Schultz
• “The Tale of La Llorona” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
• “The Call to Pour” by Ryan Thier
• “Sweeping Equation” by Dory L. Hudspeth
• “Poem Written in Stolen Polling Place Pen” by James D’Agostino
• “Leslie Doesn’t Believe in Love” by Daniel Valdez
• “Thoughts of Elders” by Saginaw Grant
• “To Mourn” by Jessica Venturi
• “These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends” by Caitlin Gildrien
• “How to Turn Off a Ceiling Fan” by Nasreen Yazdani
• “The Gold Dream” by David James
• “The Queen Ponders Her Laureate Choice” by A.M. Juster
• “Life” by Marvin Artis
• “Free Speech Being (Nowabouts)” by Rolli
• “Penumbra” by Marvin Artis
• “What Is Not Lost” by Sharon Cote
• “Love Poem” by Heather Bell
• “The Jerry Lewis Telethon” by Bruce Cohen
• “Particulate Matter” by Molly Fisk
• “Sad Song” by Heather Bell
• “John Hinckley Can Move Out of His Mother’s House” by J.M. Francheteau
• “The Carbon Monoxide Gas” by Kim Bridgford
• “Locked Brakes on Blacktop” by Guinotte Wise
• “The Oven” by Kim Bridgford
• “Christmas Trees” by John Kennedy
• “InSight” by Elizabeth Coyle
• “Uncle Ivan and the Last Dog Race” by Travis Burke
• “Losses” by Evangeline Blanco
• “Tangles” by Barbara Campbell
• “After Mother Dies, Most Men Need a Lover” by Robert Carr
• “Sonnet for Thunder Lovers and Primary Colors” by Brenda Cárdenas
• “Like Lichen Lingering” by Sarah E.N. Kohrs
• “Elegy” by Kevin Clark
• “To Those Who Were Our First Gods: An Offering” by Nickole Brown
• “After Coffee with My Nurse Friend” by Nicelle Davis
• “By the Numbers” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
• “The Real Thing” by Stephen Gibson
• “December Monologue” by Tom Hansen
• “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez
• “C.W.P.” by Mike Good
• “Essays” by T.R. Poulson
• “Jesus Is My Flu Shot” by Jackleen Holton
• “Placebo” by Jill M. Talbot
• “At Night My Father Does Not Sing” by Samuel Hughes
• “Between” by Charles Owen Lawson
• “Your Fear” by Leatha Kendrick
• “Letter to the Ministry of Loneliness” by Judy Kronenfeld
• “Repair” by Nina Lindsay
• “You’re Bound to See Someone You Know at Walmart” by Jacob Lindberg
• “The Happy Game” by Sean Kelbley
• “Gravitational Time Dilation” by Katherine Lo
• “Salt” by Carol V. Davis
• “The Ancients and Us” by Rimas Uzgiris
• “The Father Speaking Through My Son” by Taylor Mali
• “The Countdown” by Aaron Poochigian
• “The Town Drunk Recalls the Rainmaker, Guymon, Oklahoma, 1935” by Benjamin Myers
• “My Sexlife” by Diane Seuss
• “Parting Ritual” by Soonest Nathaniel
• “Confessional” by Leslie Adrienne Miller
• “Why We Drink” by Megan Fernandes
• “Lamps” by Kathryn Petruccelli
• “I Long to Hold the Poetry Editor’s Penis in My Hand” by Francesca Bell
• “The Long Dead” by Doug Ramspeck
• “The Rime of the Ancient Minotaur” by Jack Grapes
• “To My Uncle Who Is in Prison for Robbing Banks” by Aaron Reeder
• “When You’re Afraid…” by Gregory Orr
• “Think. Wait. Fast.” by Ed Wade
• “Suicide Lane” by Mather Schneider
• “Listening to Mars,” by Sally Ashton
• “A Few Questions Before We Go On” by Prartho Sereno
• “Centerfold Art” by Ben L. Hiatt
• “August Evening” by Max Sessner
• “At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm” by Liz N. Clift
• “Abundance” by Amy Schmidt
• “It Is” by Max Sessner
• “Ten Year Challenge” by Sasha Stiles
• “Mail Call” by James Valvis
• “Substance” by Peg Duthie
• “The Distracted” by James Valvis
• “Sloan-Kettering” by Lynn Mayson Shapiro
• “Upon Further Review” by Rob Stephens
• “So We Meet Again” by Robert Wrigley
• “American Sonnet in Which the Senate Floor Becomes a Silent Disco” by Bailey Cohen
• “Rain” by Robert Wrigley
• “Shell Thick and Her Own Planet” by Angie Mason
• “Canis Interruptus” by José A. Alcántara
• “Building Nicole’s Mama” by Patricia Smith
• “Cold Front” by Elya Braden
• “Waiting” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• “Intervention” by M.L. Clark
• “I Am the Shit a.k.a Used to Be / A Bop” by Denise Bell
• “Scene from a Restaurant Window” by L. Llewellyn Byard
• “Baby Cakes” by David Berman
• “Dog Descending a Staircase” by Heather Abner
• “Reintroduction to Poetry” by Adam Szetela
• “The Cat’s Fancy” by David Berman
• “Monsters” by Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
• “Guyz Night Out” by Jefferson Carter
• “Kissing the Cow Patties” by Mike Catalano
• “For My Sister, the Feminist” by Jefferson Carter
• “In Praise of Laughter” by Ilya Kaminsky
• “Late Mammogram” by Francesca Bell
• “The Errand” by Elizabeth J. Coleman
• “Growing Apples” by Nancy Miller Gomez
• “Dear Cuck (From an Admirer)” by Marc Di Martino
• “Self-Portrait” by Rodrigo Dela Pena, Jr.
• “Ode to Antiques Roadshow” by Susan J. Erickson
• “Circle of Cranes” by Luisa A. Igloria
• “In Defense of Those Who Harbor Terrible Ideas at Tax Time” by Alison Luterman
• “A River of Stars” by Alejandro Escudé
• “The Night Before My Father’s Surgery” by Jeanette Clough
• “Old Times on Maui” by Alan C. Fox
• “My Mother Was a Dancer and She Never Looked Back” by Luigi Coppola
• “Enoch” by Rodney Gomez
• “The Branches Are Full and These Orchards Heavy” by Anis Mojgani
• “Elexxxion” by John Paul Davis
• “How We First Handled Brother” by Shaneen A. Harris
• “Out of Focus” by Rhina P. Espaillat
• “Seeing My Father’s Penis” by Rage Hezekiah
• “Penderecki’s Soul” by Phyllis M. Teplitz
• Four Haiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
• “Painful Birds” by Elisha Porat
• “Bonnie’s Final Poem to Clyde” by Marjorie Thomsen
• “The Sentencing of Dr. Larry Nassar” by Daniel Kossow
• “Echo” by Hannah V. Norman
• “Kmart’s Closing” by Charlotte Matthews
• “The Religion of Weather” by Marilynn Fournet Adams
• “Butterfly Valve” by Al Ortolani
• “Metro, January 8” by Lyn Lifshin
• “The Book of Revelation with a Rare Audio Recording of Abel’s Monologue” by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
• “Nothing Is Fine” by Susan Paris
• “W.S. Merwin” by Christopher Brean Murray
• “When I Met the Last Taushiro” by P.L. Sanchez
• “Tan Hides and Hard Stuff” by Lisha Nasipak
• “The Condition of Water” by Peter Dale Scott
• “We Suggest You Start Talking Immediately” by Evan Rail
• “On the Occasion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday” by William Taylor Jr.
• “Newlyweds” by Delphi Sky
• “It Is Worth Having” by Bettina T. Barrett
• “Time of My Life” by Angela Voras-Hills
• “Sometimes a Man Has to Get His Hands Dirty” by Alexandre Mikano
• “Nascent January, 2018, After Rain” by Florence Weinberger
• “Present” by Brent Fisk
• “The Curious Case of the” by Kat La Mantia
• “I, Stutter” by Rayon Lennon
• “The Blades” by Katie Bickham
• “Malibula” by Robert Carroll
• “Unholy Sonnet Number One” by Mollycat Jones
• “All the Mexicos” by Vincent Toro
• “Lonely, Lovely” by Debra Bishop
• “Vermont” by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
• “You Don’t Look Like Someone” by McKenzie Chinn
• “Orange Peel” by Chana Bell
• “Soccer Dad” by Steve Henn
• “Peculiar Crimes” by Laurie Blauner
• “In Charlottesville After Charlottesville” by Courtney Kampa
• “Portrait of the Black Hole as Alcoholic” by Rebecca Jamieson
• “Will Exult Over You With Loud Singing” by Michael Lavers
• “Happiness” by John Goode
• “To the Insurance Agent Who …” by Darren Morris
• “On Being a Carpet Installer” by James S. Proffitt
• “Notre Dame de Paris Catches Fire” by Rachel Custer
• “The Dead Weight of Dogs” by Loueva Smith
• “The Finish” by Anemone Beaulier
• “The Way” by Mike White
• “Trompe L’oeil” by Juliet Latham
• “Blue Whale Sonnets” by Kim Bridgford
• “Stalking ee in the Fifties” by Colette Inez
• “The Mothers” by Sharanya Manivannan
• “Lament of the Violin” by Deborah H. Doolittle
• “Living in Space After a Break-Up” by Jaime Mera
• “Tonight at Last Call, J. Calls me His Brown Liquor Girl Again” by Alexis Rhone Fancher
• “On the Last Day of Passover” by Anna Talhami
• “Caril Ann Fugate” by Joseph Fasano
• “My Grandmother Told Us Jokes” by Richard Beban
• “Jews in the Wrong Place in San Diego” by Michael Mark
• “Las Vegas” by Brock Guthrie
• “Free Shipping” by Abby E. Murray
• “Petrarch Looks for Laura at Holiday World” by Stephen Harvey
• “Gesture” by Malcolm Alexander
• “The Indian Killer Explains Manifest Destiny” by Red Hawk
• “Daily Commute” by Jessica Goodheart
• “Where Do People Go, When You Close Your Eyes?” by Meghan Bell
• “A Housekeeper’s Villanelle” by Maggie Rue Hess
• “To Whoever Inherits the Earth” by Amy Miller
• “Fugue: Red Bird Taking Wing” by Lynne Knight
• “Dear Senator,” by Cambra Koczkur
• “Mustering Out” by Sue Fagalde Lick
• Two Poems by Lucia Baca
• “I Am Used to Keeping Secrets About My Body” by Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• “The Turkeys by the Road Consult with the Deer” by Amy Miller
• “My Poor Old High School” by Joan Jobe Smith
• “Colossal” by Jennifer Perrine
• “In the Nostalgia Chair” by Matthew Murrey
• “My Mother Speaks to Me from the Dead” by Alexander Radison
• “Summer Days” by Angélica Borrego
• “They Say We Make Our Horses Run” by T.R. Poulson
• “Strong Feather Buries the White Woman” by Jennifer Reeser
• “Late Sonogram” by Amanda Newell
• “Bingo Caller” by Liz Robbins
• “Art Therapy” by Aaric Tan Xiang Yeow
• “In Preparation for a Visit from Our CEO” by Carrie Shipers
• “Domestic Violence” by Olivia Bourke
• “Helicopters over Portland” by Devon Balwit
• “Three Sijo” by Jamey Temple
• “Writing” by Charles Bukowski
• “Elroy Trains the Stock Boy” by Larina Warnock
• “RSVP” by William Stafford
• “Graceland” by Clayton Beach
• “I Am a Black Girl” by April Chukwueke
• “But Hinduism Is Not Hindutva” by Riddhi Dastidar
• “Recalculating” by C. Wade Bentley
• “There Used to Be Rules” by Elizabeth S. Wolf
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