Issue #76 November 2017

  • David Wojahn: AT THAT URGE FOR MORE LIFE: ADVENTURES IN LO-REZ (Part 1)

                    AT THAT URGE FOR MORE LIFE:   ADVENTURES IN LO-REZ (PART ONE)                                                             Let me…

    Essays and Comment
  • EVERY MAP IS AN ISLAND

    I turned away from the paper
  • Shore

    Not stone, among stones,
  • In Search of Grace

    With slush to ground the Erie trees
  • Calendars Do Not Hold Fortunes

    One day you're old and thankful. One day
  • AS IN A SACK | STILL HEARD | BREATH THEY COULDN’T

    AS IN A SACK held shut by cord,
  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle
  • From Blue as White (The Book of Margins) by Helga Landauer-Olshvang |

    Get out alive – spine, spleen, whole
  • DELIBERATE AS THINKING IS THE RAIN

    Stepping off the door lintel, down onto the grass as the day closed around us, grass, rising up inside its own squared
  • Adam Tavel, Benno Barnard, Wayne Miller, et.al

    Readers, as you will note, once more I have this month vacated my space in this note so that we…

    Editors Note
  • Given Plums

    Early July my sister and I filled two sacks of plums from our orchard. We shook each tree until the ripest orbs fell
  • Maria’s Yellow Coat

    I haven’t had
  • Tim Seibles: One Turn Around the Sun

    Halfway through his epic eleven-page sequence “Mosaic,” Tim Seibles echoes the closing of Robert Hayden’s oft-anthologized “Those Winter Sundays,” writing,…

    Book Review
  • FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.

    What else would I do on the river
  • Thanksgiving Chorus

    Kindergarteners beautiful and dumb
  • 21 Contemporary Indian Poets

    AKHIL KATYAL ♦ ANAND THAKORE ♦ ANINDITA SENGUPTA ♦ ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM ♦ VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA TRANSLATED BY ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA ♦…

    Featured Selection