Columbia Poetry Review

Columbia Poetry Review No. 11

Editors
Greg Purcell
Michael A. Staples

Faculty Advisor
Paul Hoover

THEODORE ENSLIN
And Elder Ghosts Walk By
Persuasion
[Rain Tapping at My Window]

TOM CLARK
Little Hymn to Athene
Another Obscure Reverie
“ The Blimp Glitters . . .”

AMIRI BARAKA
Moment’s Notice (Birthday 1997)

MARK WALLACE
Celebration for the Fall of the Current Regime
Fire Reveals Identity
Get a Real Job

SHARON DARROW
Progress Report
Life & Art
What If I Call You?

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE
from Conversation
33
34
35

MELISSA FAVARA
Poem for Halliday
Second Poem for Halliday with Quotes from Rilke
N.E.

STANDARD SCHAEFER
The Shore of Sure
Who You Work For

RAPHAEL JOHN BUCKLES
Poem for Francis Bacon
Travel
[Pink Blossoms]

BARBARA TOMASH
The Christmas Posadas of San Miguel de Allende, 1-4
Burning-in

DAN HOWELL
Magic Buzzard
On Location in Michigan
The White Chair

RON PADGETT
Blazes

KIM HAYES
Fall Concerns
Pitch
Geometry

MICHAEL A. STAPLES
Stalking the Minotaur
Oh
Snow

DAVID BRESKIN
Belgrave Square
S, M, L, XL

JENNIFER MARTENSON
Equilibrium

BRYAN CHARLES
Linear A
New Wave

RYAN PHILIP KULEFSKY
The Grave Digger
Personal Poem

JASON BROCCARDO
One Small Step
Stevie Wonder

LUKE TRENT
Grumpy
Melon Hour
These Two Eyes

DANIEL S. MOSHER
An American Cactus
Strong Women

JIM ELLEDGE
Cinema Verité

GREG PURCELL
from Self-Portrait

TOM WHALEN
The Call
Red
The Observant Eye of Andre Masson

NIKKI M. PILL
(your. your voice)

TODD A. CARTER
Colour as Is a Mess Known by No One
Thank the Universe for Blind Dates

JEFFREY DANIELS
More on the Storms
Arithmetic

IVAN RAMOS
For Ryan Philip Kulefsky

BETH SIMON
Bread
Zaire

SIMON PERCHIK
265
404

RYAN GAGE
The Sunday Vignettes

DEBORAH HARPER
Parking the Car
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

TOM SAVAGE
A Boy Named Kiwi Just Knifed a Chinese Man

APRIL SHERIDAN
A Splinter in My Dandy
Wild Mule Collective

GARY DUEHR
Black and White

TIMOTHY LIU
Parable
An Inferno
Prolegomenon
To Renew

B.Z. NIDITCH
George Seferis
A Polish Drawbridge

MITCH CORBER
Mulch

JAMES PYOTT
Shrunk
The Library Train

JENNI GRUTZMACHER
[I Decided That Courtyards]

STUART MITCHNER
Marlowe Struck By Lightning
Bosch in Jerusalem

LUCIA DICK
Naming the Wilderness

STEVEN TEREF
Stiff Flames

GORDON MASSMAN
658

RITA HAWN
Response Time
Back Like That

GLENN INGERSOLL
The City in the Cup

DAVID BEAVER
Sonora
So What (Under the Influence of LeRoi Jones)

W. B. KECKLER
When it Came to Him, During a Vacation
Winter Poem
Aural Sculpturing

SUSEN JAMES
Initial Condition

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