Table of Contents: July/August 2008

BUY THIS ISSUE »   Subscribe »

Yehuda Amichai · Robin Behn · David Biespiel · Geoffrey Brock · Billy Collins · Carl Dennis · W. S. Di Piero · Stephen Dunn · Peter Gizzi · Albert Goldbarth · Vivian Gornick · Jason Guriel · Bob Hicok · Michael Hofmann · Fanny Howe · William Johnson · Haki Madhubuti · Glyn Maxwell · Kevin McFadden · Heather McHugh · Joshua Mehigan · Philip Memmer · D. Nurkse · David Orr · Stephen O’connor · Marjorie Perloff · Robert Pinsky · Adam Seelig · Tom Sleigh · Jack Spicer · Kathryn Starbuck · Heidy Steidlmayer · Wendy Videlock · Eleanor Wilner · Robert Wrigley · Dean Young

Cover art: Bruce McCall, “Shakespeare authorship solved,” 2008.

	AUTHOR	TITLE
	Joshua Mehigan	Work Song
	David Biespiel	The Theory 0f Hats Marvel
	Carl Dennis	Silent Prophet
	Kathryn Starbuck	Trout
	Geoffrey Brock	Prof of Profs
	Wendy Videlock	My Moses
	Jason Guriel	The Storm Is Over Soft Spots Alchemy
	Albert Goldbarth	Marble-Sized Song
	Heather McHugh	Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork Dark View
	Robert Wrigley	A Lock of Her Hair
	Tom Sleigh	Song That Can Only Be Sung Once
	Kevin McFadden	A Duet
	Bob Hicok	A shopkeeper's story
	William Johnson	Explaining It
	Glyn Maxwell	Old Smile at the Roast
	Philip Memmer	Psalm
	Billy Collins	The Breather
	Robin Behn	My Hair
	Dean Young	Selected Recent and New Errors
	D. Nurkse	The Play of Light and Shadow
	Heidy Steidlmayer	Thistles
	Stephen O’connor	Biology
	Jack Spicer	"Any fool can get into an ocean..." [Response to the Loyalty Oath] A Second Train Song for Gary [Letter to Gary Bottone] "Imagine Lucifer..." A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958 Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision" Helen: A Revision
	Yehuda Amichai	Killing Him: A Radio Play
	Stephen Dunn	Plaisir

		COMMENT
	Peter Gizzi	Introduction
	Adam Seelig	Introduction
	W. S. Di Piero	Cook the Hell Out of 'Em
	Fanny Howe	Because He Was Flesh How Edward Dahlberg changed my life.
	Haki Madhubuti	The Roads Taken Gwendolyn Brooks is with me every day.
	Robert Pinsky	No Tiara, No Crown What do you do when Milosz tells you, "The pope liked this poem very much"?
	Michael Hofmann	Into the Abeyance
	Eleanor Wilner	Finding Again the World
	Marjorie Perloff	Learning from Lexington
	Vivian Gornick	The Soul Grown Refined
	David Orr	The Politics of Poetry

		LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
	John Balaban	Letter to the Editor
	Joseph Bednarik	Letter to the Editor
	Michael Wiegers	Letter to the Editor
	Ankur Saha	Letter to the Editor
	Rod Riesco	Letter to the Editor