Columbia Poetry Review No. 18

CPR no 18 cover

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

Contents

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


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