Table of Contents: November 2008
Cover art: Ana Benaroya, “Portrait of a Girl,” 2008.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | |
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| Roberto Bolaño |
Soni Ernesto Cardenal and I La Francesa Visit to the Convalescent Dirty, Poorly Dressed Palingenesis |
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Philip Levine |
Our Valley |
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Mary Szybist |
On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes Hail |
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Fiona Sampson |
Zeus to Juno |
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Billy Collins |
Her The Chairs That No One Sits In |
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Elaine Equi |
A Start Antiquity Calling |
| Jorge Sánchez |
Plaint in a Major Key |
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Stephen Edgar |
Murray Dreaming |
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William Logan |
To a Wedding |
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mIEKAL aND |
mi'kmaq book of the dead |
| K. S. Ernst & Sheila E. Murphy |
Vortextique |
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derek beaulieu |
untitled (for Natalee and Jeremy) |
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Peter Ciccariello |
The Disremembered Glossolalist |
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Bob Dahlquist |
alwaysendeavor |
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Jesse Patrick Ferguson |
Mama |
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Scott Helmes |
haiku #62 |
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Joel Lipman |
from “Origins of Poetry” |
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gustave morin |
toon tune |
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jörg piringer |
fallen |
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Philip Gallo |
untitled |
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Michael Basinski |
Labile |
| COMMENT | ||
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Geof Huth |
Visual Poetry Today They are not merely poems, but they are certainly poems. |
| Adam Kirsch |
Literary Fame in the Time of Flame Wars Is the Internet really going to change how literary reputations get made? |
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Carmine Starnino |
Beyond Heaney? Five Irish poets who are changing Irish poetry: Eavan Boland, Harry Clifton; Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Ciaran Carson. |
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Ange Mlinko |
"Information, Thy Nemesis is Reverie" How Devin Johnston and Linda Gregg chase the Romantic. |
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Robert Archambeau |
Poetry, Politics, and Leanings-Left Why poets after Eliot will never be as conservative as bankers. |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | ||
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William Logan |
Letter to the Editor |
| Jay Robinson |
Letter to the Editor |
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| Mischa Willett |
Letter to the Editor |
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| David Tinling |
Letter to the Editor |
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| Paul J Healy |
Letter to the Editor |
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| Loren Keller |
Letter to the Editor |
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| Fraser Sutherland |
Letter to the Editor |
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| Gertrude Rubin |
Letter to the Editor |




