Columbia Poetry Review no.1

Columbia Poetry Review No. 1 Editors Jeffrey Brown Juanita Garza Lorri Jackson Edward Moore Bill Tarlin Faculty Advisor Paul Hoover Contents ELAINE EQUI Puritans A Bouquet of Objects LYDIA TOMKIAW Seven Little Dead Body Poem JEFFREY BROWN Southbound Train Remember, America Ready and Trembling They All Laughed: New Poet’s Folk Wisdom Louisiana Tantrum Interior with a Girl at a Window Reading a Letter, Circa 1658 DIANE WILLIAMS Cory’s Baptism We Annihilation Boots KAREN MURAI Japanese Florida Debutantes No Talking Allowed LORRI JACKSON Acid Epic Raw Dog The Effect of a Lost Friend JUANITA GARZA Visit to the Cemetery on Mother’s Day, 1984 Syntax French Garden Busted Egg Sonata LAURA SAKARYA Poem CHRISTINE VALENTOR Poem Poem INKA ALASADÉ Poem ANN FAY Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy EDWARD MOORE Chant Greetings from the Slaughterhouse Paying the Toll MICHAEL HANNAN Keep Talking Waiting for Someone Taller JOEY PICKERING Bartending Nameless KARLA DENNIS Poem Poem JULIE KLAUSER Poem FRAN MASON Poem Weeds Water Sestina BILL TARLIN By Example Question Prayer in Regress Unfinished Business ROBIN KIDD Like to Like SANDRA RAND City Sestina BARBARA ECKHOUSE Autonomous Biograpy SUNG KOO Turn Up the Religion Rhythmic Grumbling Some Words About Love A Balance of Sound October 13, a Friday KELVIN LEWIS How Do You Sleep? PMS HEIDI HEDEKER Claim to Fame The He That Comes Over Me Music Tango Magic Big Words JAMES SCHMIDT Lake Michigan STEVE GLABMAN Poems for Tristan Tzara HARRIETTE PORTER Globalisms LISA GUSHINIERE Help VLADO KETCHENS Over the Moors JEFF KERR Old Black Dress JIM NEWBERRY Hardcore Jollies R.J. RESTIVO Just Now an Angel KASSIE ROSE Paderewski Played Pianissimo in the Middle of the Night AMY SHUTTLEWORTH Paperweight Miró in General DEBORAH LAMBERTY Poem Inertia April

Columbia Poetry Review No. 1

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