Columbia Poetry Review

Columbia Poetry Review No. 15

Editors
Elizabeth Andersen
Sarah Pearl
Sean R. Slive

Faculty Advisor
Paul Hoover

EVONNE ACEVEDO
Slither and Hallowed

ELIZABETH ANDERSEN
Barkeeps and Other Educations
Reduction and Other Ingredients

HENRY ANSELMO
Goddess is Elitist
A Bouquet and a Bottle of Pills: A Palindrome

MICHAEL BERNSTEIN
Lighthouse Satellites
Vertigo

REBECCA BRIDGE
Lines

CASSANDRA
A Love Letter

RIC M. CLEARY
A Well Poisoned Fedora

SHANA CLEVELAND
(Elvis Dance Class Dream)

JOHN COLBURN
I Wanna Be a Pop Star Because
I Wonder Why
A Selected Guide to the United States

CLARK COOLIDGE
They Took the Dent in and Rang like Mugwumps
Sniper at the Space of Clown

SHARON DARROW
from Tangent Grace
Gates Sighing Gates
You Have Seen Me and Scalded Me
Night Leafless Raft

JOSHUAH M. DEADY
October Infects

ALBERT FLYNN DESILVER
The Sculptress in the First Place
The Blind Man's Wife

GEOFFREY DETRANI
Container
Village Nested

STEPHANIE DICKINSON
Ditch
Respirator

RAY DIPALMA
Mechanism

TIM DONAHOE
Rooftop Apologies
Today, Galiant, Day

ENABLING FACTORS
Processional

JEB GLEASON-ALLURED
Translation IX
Translation XXVIII
Translation XXIX

NOAH E. GORDON
The Death of the Twenty-One Cuts
Skeleton (Trees
Evolution of the Ark

NERISSA HAMLIN
Documentary
This is a Lie

KIM HAYES
Fork

ADAM HELBIG
Prone

TONY HOOPER
Paws
Composition of Composites at the Point of Now

STEFANI IRYNE
Black Jack Daughter
Infancy/ Intimacy

SUSEN JAMES
Lots of People Around Here Have Been Taken for Rides in UFOs
Meiri
Microscopia

DEMETRIA JONES
We-Puppets
Lorde Help
Vibrations

RYAN PHILLIP KULEFSKY
I Am (I Think) a Master of Gauze
If Her Crack Box Shakes to Congealed Killer

JOHN LATTA
Dingle and Rack
Hub and Buttercup
Orthography and Fuck

COREY D. MEAD
from The Book of Edgar
7. The New World
8. A Personal Note

NICK MCDOUGAL
Oil Bellied

VANESSA MENDOCINO
Firefly Memory
Endless Sessions

ROBIN MORRISSEY
Simulacra: Pedagogy and Paranoia
Monolake

MURRAY MOULDING
Captain Dissolve
Salt and Battery

SARAH PEARL
Accidents Toward Evidence
Defending the Tragediennes

JEAN-PAUL PECQUEUR
Like an Avant-Garde Classic in Braille
Feeling Occidental

GEORGE G. QUINTERO
Careful

AMBUR RESKY
Side Tart

NICHOLAS RAVNIKAR
This Gives Hours a Guide to Smuggle Her out the Gypsy
She, Dying by Blossoms
A Spy Who Believes in the Letter of Man

MAUREEN SEATON
Episode in Which Olive Ate the Spinach

SEAN SLIVE
Scopophilia
Love rain
New Murder

C.S. SMITH
Under the Comfort

JORIS SOEDING
The Last Swarm

KERRI SONNENBERG
from Flutter, Wow
A Gathers by Some Feeding

JULIE STINAFF
Letter

SHARON SUZUKI-MARTINEZ
Instructions
Dream of a Man Named Jewel

STEVEN TEREF
Running To
The Obstructivist

LUKE TRENT
The Road
Kama Sutra
Epistle (3)

MAGED ZAHER
Blood Economic

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