Table of Contents: March 2009

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Cover art: Victor Kerlow, "Hot and Cold Summer," 2008.

AUTHOR TITLE
Conor O'Callaghan Three Six Five Zero
January Drought
Game Night
Aaron Poochigian The Vigil
John Ashbery Uptick
El Dorado
Leave the Hand In
Boundary Issues
Michael Chitwood Here I Am, Lord
Mark Wunderlich Coyote, with Mange
Waumandee
The Corn Baby
Kathryn Starbuck A Gift
Ideas
Leslie Williams Fox in the Landscape
In Me as the Swans
Mark Irwin Landscape with Horse Named Popcorn
Carol Frost Apiary 40
Dave Lucas Lines for Winter
Katy Didden At Chartres
“Embrace Them All”
Harry Clifton Rakestreet
Deep Ulster
The Park
Seth Abramson What I Have
Captains in Captivity
COMMENT
Fanny Howe “Buddhists Like School and I Don’t.”
An experimental poet meditates on the intersections of language, writing, and God.
C. K. Williams All Around the World the Same Song
How globe-trotting poetries may not beat scrawls in a cave.
Jason Guriel Going Negative
A “necessary skeptic” says what he really thinks about new books by Jane Mead, D.A. Powell, and John Poch.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Paul Drabkin Letter to the Editor
Mark Soifer Letter to the Editor
Geof Huth Geof Huth Responds
Gloria Powell Letter to the Editor
Kathy Fitzgerald Letter to the Editor
Melissa Wirsig Letter to the Editor
David Bachelor Letter to the Editor