Columbia Poetry Review No. 17

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Editors
Robert Baker
John Steven Cummins
Natalie Hill
Susan Kurek
Linda Oh

Assistant Editors
Laura Negrete
Jacob Saenz

Faculty Advisor
David Trinidad

Contents

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


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