Columbia Poetry Review No. 18
Editors
Natalie Hill
John Steven Cummins
Editorial Board
Jacob Saenz
Ryan Rzab
Laura Negrete
Susan Kurek
Sean Flynn
Readers
Amanda Johnson
Cora Jacobs
Monica Gerstemeier
Ryan Collins
Nolan Chessman
Chris Ankney
Faculty Advisor
Suzanne Buffam
ARIELLE GREENBERG
Forward
CHIKA SAGAWA
1.2.3.4.5.
An Illusion of home
Rusty knife
HEIDI LYNN STAPLES
10 Paces Off Confidential Information
ROBYN SCHIFF
House of Schiaparelli
DANIELLE PAFUNDA
Doctor, Let Me Do What I Want
Hung
DENISE DUHAMEL
The Voice
Perm
"
Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen"
CARLA CONFORTO
The Difference Between Reading and Writing
AMANDA JOHNSON
Parlor Games
GERTRUDE HALSTEAD
[here in front of me]
MEGAN A. VOLPERT
french and french-ability
SALLY VAN DOREN
Impatient
ONI BUCHANAN
Elegy in Late October
And on the Seventh Day
ADRIANNA KALFOPOULOU
The Meal
LOIS ROMA-DEELEY
This
KASS FLEISHER
4. PERSONALITY TO CONFIGURE
S. BETH BISHOP
Abstracts of the Four Books of the Great Intermission
SARAH MANGUSO
Spectacular Pyrotechnics
Supine, Never Actual Enough,
ALLISON JOSEPH
The Purpose of Hands
RENEE ASHLEY
A Gun Is Not Discursive
HARRIET ZINNES
[Nothing that is]
CATHERINE DALY
Violette
SUEYUEN JULIETTE LEE
f2
KATY LEDERER
The Eternal One
We Have Taken
We Do Love Him
ERIKA MIKKALO
The Traveler
SAWAKO NAKAYASU
from Texture Notes
9.19.2003
SARAH SANDMAN
from It's Just You and Me in the Desert
Land: Parts III. Mr. Kurtz Traveling through the Desert Looking for Water
STEPHANIE STRICKLAND
from Absinthe
I
Rabi'a
Occam and Miranda
SABRINA ORAH MARK
Aster
Cryptozoology
MAUREEN OWEN
In the Valley of the Onions / or / Bebe
LOUISE THOMAS
[your feet will distance you]
K. BRADFORD
At least
JEANNINE HALL GAILEY
Dirge for a Video Game Heroine: On Dying Again
MICHELLE NOTEBOOM
Breakthroughs often happen because you are there.
A. JOSEPHINE WEAVER
Iris
SUSEN JAMES
palimpsest analogies
DEBORAH BERNHARDT
Latin Roots Sui and Cidium
C.H. EDING
sestina my son was home from Stockholm
DANIELLE AQUILINE
Greybird
AMANDA LEA JOHNSON
[Ruby becomes hibiscus]
LUISA IGLORIA
Blur
MAGGIE LOPEZ
Isn't It Nice To Do It With Other People?
JULIE CARR
Sentences I've often said:
Iliadic Familias (with insertions from Homer)
ALICIA OSTRIKER
From the Mountains, to the Prairies, to the Ocean
JULIANA SPAHR
from Unevenness
NAIMA DAWSON
Wigged Divas
TERRY WOLVERTON
In praise of lipstick
EMILY WILSON
Monadnock
Zoetrope
ESTHER LEE
The Good Girl Montage
ELENI SIKELIANOS
World is Weird
LINDSAY BELL
Shelter for the Making
LARISSA SZPORLUK
Tantalus Gossips
Gospel of the Mean
The Yawning Snake
RACHEL ZUCKER
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs