Columbia Poetry Review no.12

CPR 12

Editors
Sharon Darrow
Ryan Philip Zulefsky
Cheryl Siler

Faculty Advisor
Paul Hoover

Contents

BARBARA GUEST
Unusual Figures
Mahogany Daylight

KERRI SONNENBERG
Inventory
Landscape #4
Om

JEFFREY LITTLE
Stormin’ the Heavens w/ Bat Hooks, Hal
Tomorrow’s Stone Age Marimbas Today

DEBORAH LANDAU
Billboards and Other Signs of Loss

STEVEN LAPINSKY
Witch Hazel
The Return of the Paper Wasp

DONALD REVELL
Just Having Owed
A Bird Sick on Pavement

CRAIG GORE
Oyster Roast
American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God

GREGORY GOLDEN
Slain Men and the Zen of Killing
Repercussions of Bella
Vials of the Revolution

GARY ANDERSON
Stealing Poems

JANE MILLER
The Sea is Light in a Passing Shower
School

STEVEN SHERRILL
Poem for Maxwell Street
Real Estate

IVAN RAMOS
Black Bean Soup

JIM ELLEDGE
Two Epistles from Orion

NIKKI M. PILL
(Isn’t)
(Margins. A Life Story.)

MATTHEW HEINZE
The Buffet
Electromagnetism and Its Effect on the Brain
VS.

JEREMY ERIC TENENBAUM
Dear GR

CHERYL SILER
Airport Road
Such Low Men
Reverse Pangea

ROGER W. HECHT
& What Exactly is Beyond My Sight?
Sometimes We Worry

BARBARA CAMPBELL
The Tyranny of Three

RAPHAEL JOHN BUCKLES
Whirligig

CIN SALACH
Evolution

MARY KASIMOR
Spring Equinox

DEAN BRINK
Fish Folds

PAUL HOOVER
The Tower

RYAN PHILIP KULEFSKY
If Dandelions Bent Objectively
Don’t Be a Slave to Debt
First Seven Days of December

DAVID M. SHERIDAN
Grammarless and Nude

GREG PURCELL
To My Beloved Self These Lines are Dedicated
A Claim for the Cold War

JENNI GRUTZMACHER
Lingering in Virgo
June
Eggshells

CONNIE DEANOVICH
The Spotted Moon #10

SARAH SCHUETZE
Gypsum

RON KOERTGE
Literal City
Miss American Poetry

PHILIP KOBYLARZ
Boreal

STEPHANIE DEAN
While the Man Sitting Next to the Pole

HARRYETTE MULLEN
Wipe That Smile Off Your Aphasia

SHARON DARROW
from What She Wore
I. White Gauze Gown
IV. Raspberry Tank Top

MATTHEW ROTH
Centrally Located

STEVEN TEREF
Water from Hands

ELIZABETH WEAVER
Raphe, Between

APRIL SHERIDAN
Migration Gate
[Delay Considered Effects]

NATALIE ORR
Oh, Sarcophagus
Swim like a Swan

GREGGORY CULLEN WAGNER
Of Distance

KATHERINE SOLOMON
Two Dreams for the Great Aunt

DAVID DIGANGI
Lucid Dream #24
Like Pharaoh’s Pillow

GARY HEAD
Slain

W. B. KECKLER
Shopping with Orpheus

ROBERT VIVIAN
History of Light

BERNADETTE GIESER
Carnal Fig

ALAN FISHER
Rain is Human

CURTIS L. CRISLER
Jay B. Stands in the Mirror

JOSEPHINA GASCA
Hard Science

CHRISTINE SNEED
Fifteen Hundred Clowns in One Room

MICHAEL MCCOLL
Heavy Equipment


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