Columbia Poetry Review no. 16

Columbia Poetry Review No. 16

Editors
Rebecca Bridge
Armand F. Capanna II
Shana Cleveland
Demetria Jones

Faculty Advisors
Paul Hoover
David Trinidad

MICHAEL COSTELLO
Ode to My Flint and Boom Bolivia
L'Humeur Noir (sonnet XXXIV line 10)

ELIZABETH ANDERSEN
from The Black Box

ALICE NOTLEY
from Alma, or the Dead Women
State of the Union
Beloved Earth Restrain Them

D.A. POWELL
[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office]
[in the elegant days of downtown: we sunned on the porch]

ELAINE EQUI
Pivotal Gaps
Chew-Toy
I Interview Elaine Equi on the Four Elements

RIC M. CLEARY
This Way
Edwardian Fly

SUSAN WHEELER
Aspirate. Asperge. Recidivate.

JANE SPRAGUE
How to Jump Horses

ROBERT BAKER
Talk to Alice
" your limbs are like the cranes . . ."
Under the Terrace

ERIN LYONS
Number Four

RACHEL ZUCKER
Splinter
Fidelity

JOAN JOBE SMITH
Gene Autry

ART LANGE
Cleave Grey
Afternoon

KARIN RANDOLPH
All Fun & Games Until
Like the Slow Eating of Red Meat

DAN SULLIVAN
Chrysanthemums

AMBER RESKEY
Unable to Circumcise
Have Site

JEFFERY CONWAY
Eighteen
I Want to Be—

DANIEL NESTER
from God Save My Queen
Flash's Theme
Football Fight
Execution of Flash/ The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)

SHARON DARROW
Milton

PAULA KONEAZNY
from Sentence

TOM JOHNSON
Stealthy People Need Tutelage

BARON WORMSER
When Billy Moved Back Home
Class of '65 (1990)

SHANA CLEVELAND
The Distant Thunder Roar
The Dog Days
Lake Placid

TIM DONAHOE
Kleenex
Folder

EVONNE ACEVEDO
Cruising the Fish

BILL KUSHNER
Flaming Creatures
Zero Star Motel

THURSTON MOORE
Invisible Story

REBECCA BRIDGE
The Last Time Nick San Antonio Went Fishing
The Fat Drippings of a Was-Beautiful Afternoon

ANDREW EARLY
Photographic Moment

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT
Good Morning
From the Annals of Perseverance

CHRISTOPHER NERI
Titles for Poems That Don't Exist

KYLEE COFFMAN
It's Like This
Personal Poem

TOM CLARK
Drifting

HERBERT KROHN
My Georgia Island Treehouse

JONATHAN MINTON
" There is no jazz in the South," he said.

DEMETRIA JONES
The Pocket-Watch Promise
Love Not

ARMAND F. CAPANNA II
The Little Fish of Sublime Grace
from Crumpets

CHARLES BERNSTEIN
Five for M.P.

NICHOLAS RAVNIKAR
Logocide and Patrologisms
[4: Love Poem]

RYAN PHILIP KULEFSKY
I Am the Pioneer of the Dance Floor
Ban the Bums: An Aleatorical Sonnet

KAREN NEUBERG
Yolks

JASON NOAH
Deity
Attention

LINDA OH
Points
Drinking, Girls, Etc.

NICK MOUDRY
With His Gun
Then the Bombs

LEWIS WARSH
Milton Street

TODD DIEDERICH
" There was a time-"

SCOTT KEENEY
from Pickpocket Poetica

SUSEN JAMES
from My Life with Chandeliers
Lulu
Antonio's Recent Discovery: A Brief Synopses

CONNIE DEANOVICH
Hamlet
Elixir

SEAN R SLIVE
Untitled, Undated

D.J. DOLACK
Grocery List

KIM HAYES
Going Around
The Light Is Just

ARIELLE GREENBERG
My Sister Takes On the Clothing of the Dead
Little Red Fox

ARTURO ALMAZAN
Wall Bash

KATHLEEN GARDNER
Going to Work In His Pajamas
" I tell"

ZSOLT SZENTGYORGYI
Distant Shores
Quiet Times

NERISSA HAMLIN
" there was this girl"
The First Nude

SARA ATKINS
Lineage

ANI GRIGORIAN
Regarding the Tomato Plants
Poem for My Birthmark

DENISE DUHAMEL
The Madonna In Me

DAVID TRINIDAD
from Phoebe 2002: An Essay In Verse
" I detest cheap sentiment"
All About Mirrors

JORIS SOEDING
One More Sunday

FERD EGGAN
From the Japanese

Congratulations to Michael Costello and Alice Notley on the selection of their poems from this issue for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2004!

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