Columbia Poetry Review No. 17

Editors
Robert Baker
John Steven Cummins
Natalie Hill
Susan Kurek
Linda Oh
Assistant Editors
Laura Negrete
Jacob Saenz
Faculty Advisor
David Trinidad
JENNA CARDINALE
Collected Works
WANDA COLEMAN
1959
Greening Over Them Blues
KATHLEEN OSSIP
Nunc Dimittis
NICK CARBÓ
Dulzura
Mis Versos
El Hijo de Ibn Ben-Yamin
Pelos
JENNIFER L. KNOX
A Common American Name
Famed Psychic Gardener Flits Through, Gives Tips
TONY TRIGILIO
In the Intersection, Jackson and State
The Train from San Mateo
JORIS SOEDING
Summer of X
MICHAEL DUMANIS
When I Was Pol Pot
Tourist
KIMIKO OSTROZOVICH
Some Interesting Facts about Japan from a First Grade Girl Scout
Although This Never Happened
LAURA NEGRETE
Apple Picking
MATTHEW THORBURN
Hot Like Hot Mustard
Honeymoon Snapshot
MICHAEL SCOTT SUMRAK
Actuality of
Flight of
AMY GERSTLER
In the Aspirin Orchard
White Blindfold
SUSAN KUREK
Chinese New Year
Truth #
CONSTANTIN ACOSMEI
Ars Amandi
GENE TANTA
Men with Mustaches
RAE GOUIRAND
Imprimatur
MAGGIE LOPEZ
Fixed
SORAYA SHALFOROOSH
Psychic
JORGE SANCHEZ
Fantasia on the Machine
JOHN STEVEN CUMMINS
The Architectural Tour on the Misspelled River
What to Wear, Alice?
MAUREEN SEATON
When I Was a Sex Goddess
Traveling by Hand
KAREN VOLKMAN
11/2
11/8
LAURA SIMS
Spin
Notes
TIMOTHY LIU
A Song of the South
JACOB SAENZ
Cops and Robbers
P. KOBYLARZ
Prelude, no Fugue
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT
The Fretwork of Bone
Breakfast Again: The Interpenetration of Opposites
CHAD BARTLETT
Wormwood
MARCUS SLEASE
Stop Pretending
RITA WONG
you know before you begin that you are already finished
JOHN FRANKLIN
Vincent Goes To Paris
J. Jablonski
PASQUALE DEFAZIO
HWY
KRISTY BOWEN
Souvenir
C.H.E.
document, erasures: aeiou, sometimes y words
document, 11-8-03: Kingsley, Michigan
ARI BANIAS
Two Dreams of Deluge
KEVIN CUNNINGHAM
Hermit age
ROBERT SIEK
Turkey on Saturday
MARK CUNNINGHAM
V
CHRIS HUND
Ninja Movie
SUSAN MAURER
El Lobo
KAREN GARTHE
The History of Midnight
ROBERT BAKER
My Movie
REBECCA BRIDGE
Beautiful in the Oven
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
female trouble
Everything She Asks of Me
NATHAN HOKS
Interrogative
LUIS VALADEZ
Can't be Cured by Anne Sexton
NOLAN CHESSMAN
Butterflies on Indoor Plants
They Who Lie Trapped in the Sidewalk Cracks
JOSHUA COREY
from Severance Songs
JIM CORY
Of 'of'
CHRIS GREEN
A Dog Named Soul
NATALIE HILL
What Frank Told Me
Heaven Night Club
ARTURO R. ALMAZAN
mex to go
LAUREN IRELAND
The Little Broken Parrot on the Floor
JEAN KIM
Catching Five Days
KIMBERLY MANOR
Wonderment at the Waterfront
LIZ BERLAND
a feminine fix-it handbook
SANDRA MILLER
Sirens from a wedding
LAURA MULLEN
The Squeaky Wheel
KERRI SONNENBERG
from The Winter Count
LINDA OH
Girls, Cutting, Everything
KAREN LEE OSBORNE
Ruth from Linden
JULIUS FLYNN
Right Before Bible Study with Pasta' Larry
CLAUDIA ALONZO
If I only had a heart
MAUREEN OWEN
not every restaurant that attracts celebrities has an attitude
CHRIS PAQUETTE
Deer Crossing
"
Where did you get your red hair little boy?"
ELIJAH PARK
Road in the Fork
RYAN RZAB
Crotcho
KRISTIN AARDSMA
fathers aren't Gods, either
A.F. THOMAS
Tree House
CA CONRAD
3 Imperfect Rituals
conversation poem