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Editors: Arielle Greenberg, Tony Trigilio, and David Trinidad.
© Columbia College Chicago, 2007

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Table of Contents:
Poems
Dossier: Political Poetry

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NewPages review, December 2007


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Poems

David Kresh Windows
Judith Kroll

In the Glen

Judith Taylor

When Last She Gazed Out Her Casement Window

James Grinwis

Sound Cloud

Catherine Theis

Pilgrim

Maggie Smith

Let’s Not Have a Meeting

Susie Timmons

Arson
Sick of Pennsylvania

Larry Sawyer

Kentucky

Scott Cunningham Sonnet Against Walk the Line (2005)
Gregory Crosby

Immoraltality

Lesley Jenike

Trouble in River City

Robert McDonald

Dear November,

Caroline Walker

House of Cards
Gray
Security Coffins

Brenda Coultas

from A Lonely Cemetery
The 4th of July
Sister-in-Law’s Paranormal Encounters
My Brother’s Tale
The Haunted Jail

Jo McDougall The One Horse Store
Sheila E. Murphy Let’s Go Wash the Chevrolet
Elaine Equi Unisex Colognes
Jibade-Khalil Huffman

“When delivering make-up . . .”
The Blowjob Pictures

Nate Pritts New Year’s Eve
Mike White

Dream in House Buying Time
Forest Fire
I Got Frank O’Hara’d

Brian Kloppenberg

Crank

Mary DeNardo It’s a family room
Claudia Carlson

Straw Mother

Elizabeth Savage

The Husband on the Table
Susie Lived in My House As a Girl
(and knows about the trees)

Jennifer Willoughby

We Seek a Shepherd or a Sign

Derek Mong

Blackout
The Somatosensory Cortex

Darcie Dennigan The New Mothers
Michael Rerick

8
10

Liz Ahl You Pantoum
Jeff Calareso Courtship
Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Some Whispering
Still Life with Black Tea
If You Repeat the Names & Disappear

Phyllis Koestenbaum

Soup
Mother In Heaven

Cynthia Arrieu-King
& Sophia Kartsonis

Kathy Coles
Andrea Dulanto

No, I’ve Never Seen The Exorcist In Its Entirety

Larry Janowski No Hold Barred
Joan Larkin

Ashes
Tough-Love Muse

 

Dossier: Political Poetry

Joan Larkin

Preview

Shane McCrae

Poem About the Peaceable Kingdom

Susan Tichy

Corridor

Dawn Tefft

The Soul Is a Hostess Cupcake

Michael Robins

Last Days on Spaulding Street

Nick Twemlow

Election Returns
Black Helicopter
May 31, 2005

James Brock

Me, Left Behind

Nin Andrews

Sleeping in Class

Kelle Groom

33 Reasons Not to Attend the White House Conference

Peter J. Grieco

Baghdad Bound

Robin Chapman

After 9/11

CJ Evans

Think, occasionally, of those lost from our lives.

Valerie Martt Wallace

Before and Now
Comfort Inn

Susan Rich

Day Six: Looking Out from the Lighthouse Café

Sarah Lilius

America Takes a Seat

Elaine Equi

Perversely Patriotic

Aaron Belz

Reagan to Brady

Tom Orange

The War is Unwinnable

Cullen Bailey Burns

After the War

Andrew Kozma

Of Mixed Principalities
How Cities or Principalities Which Lived under Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered

Clay Matthews

Poem Ending with the Beginnings of a Horror Film

Alan Michael Parker

Why I Am Afraid

Matthew Brogan

Keep Your Head

Jerome Sala

The Flintstones

Darcie Dennigan

The New Constellation

Matt Lombardi

Dirty Brown Sky

Kurt Brown

Global Warming

Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Where Are the Negroes in Hartford, Connecticut?

Gail Mazur

Borges in Cambridge. 1967.

Claudia Carlson

The Bees

Susie Timmons

Canal of Consciousness

David Baratier

Poem in which the stupider things are recounted
Kentucky Fried Krispy Kreme

Michael Estes

Balance Sheet

Terrance Hayes

Our Best Patton Performer
Your Mustache Must Ache

Joshua Edwards

from Position Effect

N Courtright

6th & Colorado

Kate Umans

Dream for a Sestina (or Dream in a Time of War)

Idra Novey

The Silos of America
Pausing Outside a Home Used for Torture in ‘74

Andrew Sage

Song of the Machete

Paige Ackerson-Kiely

Application for Asylum

 

Safety In Numbers

Naomi Shihab Nye

Letters My Prez Is Not Sending

D.H. Lawrence

The Late War

Novica Tadic
trans. by Steven Teref & Maja Teref

Dark Things
The Genealogy of the Executioner

Kathryn Regina

The Photograph

Jenny Browne

The Cry Bone’s Connected to the Why Bone

George Kalamaras

Adam and Eve

Alicia Rabins

The Story of Noah
My Desire for the Supermodel Vs. My Desire for the 50-Year-Old Expert on Arcane Languages

Eve Packer

Express DVD Video Palace / Sex     Sex     Sex

Juda Bennett

Throwing Glitter Into the Riot: June 27, 1969
On Being Notorious

Nava EtShalom

Uncoupling

Christopher Davis

Contra
Down Low

Aaron Smith

Diesel Clothing Ad (Naked Bag) man with Messenger
The Earth Spins Toward Oblivion While We Ride Trains

Lee Upton

Politics for Lovers

Anthony Robinson

from Aviary Evacuation Plan or 81 Poems Project

Michael Lally

The Geese Don’t Fly South

Terence Winch

The Right to Remain Silent
Treaties

Bernadette Mayer

In America

Muriel Rukeyser

In Our Time

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