Columbia Poetry Review No. 19
Editors
Christopher Ankney
Ryan Collins
Cora Jacobs
Jacob Saenz
Assistant Editors
Nolan Chessman
Jennifer Watman
Editorial Board
Hanna Andrews
Chet Gresham
Amanda M. Johnson
Becca Klaver
Daren Thurman
Readers
Margaret Brady
Erik Gandara
Daniela Olszewska
Julie Rouse
Katherine Rugg
Production Staff
Carol Eding
Monica Gerstemeier
Marquita Harris
BJ Soloy
Faculty Advisor
David Trinidad
ED ROBERSON
Face
To see the earth before the end of the world
Ode
JOSHUA HARMON
Landscape
ANIS SHIVANI
Gentilly Precincts, Feliciana Parish, Circa 2005
NOLAN CHESSMAN
Inherent
EILEEN MYLES
I'm moved
CHRISTOPHER BURAWA
The Mind Flows a River that Murders Someone
REBECCA WEE
At Starved Rock
MARISSA SPALDING
Sitting in the belly of a swan
CHRIS GREEN
New Year Moon Cakes
ANGELA MULLENHOUR
There Are Far Too Many Spaces (Night Driving)
JOAN LARKIN
Jew in Paris
Burial
EVE PACKER
ice-share
DAVID TRINIDAD
from A Poem Under the Influence
MARGARET BRADY
Letters from Home
PETER O'LEARY
Who Has Denied to Me the Dolesome Houses?
ELIZABETH TREADWELL
Looking for a fairy-tale castle? There are bargains to be had,
LOUISE THOMAS
Untitled
ERICA FIEDLER
from Will live as if
Fond
SHANE MCCRAE
Divorce Song
JOHN FRANKLIN
fashionist chant
JASON BREDLE
The Idiot's Guide to Faking Your Own Death and Moving to Mexico
IAN HARRIS
Last of the Last
CORA JACOBS
Falling into a Dream after Reliving an Earlier Disagreement
SCOTT HIGHTOWER
Gashapon
NANCE VAN WINCKEL
The Room's French Window Fluttered Open & Closed,
DAVID SCHLOSS
The Dakota
Appetite
BRANDI HOMAN
Red Dress Cento #1
JENNIFER WATMAN
[time in the veins of someone who turns eggs for a living]
PATTY SEYBURN
Spanish for Dream
TIMOTHY LIU
An Assignation
Who Puts Us Out To Pasture
MEDBH MCGUCKIAN
Birds, Women and Writing
MICHAEL SCOTT SUMRAK
Winter of
SETH ABRAMSON
Say the Boy
LEWIS COLON
Residual Valentine
KRISTY BOWEN
letter to my art deco lover
TESS GALLAGHER
I Asked That a Prayer
Eternal
Eating With One Chopstick
MARLON UNAS ESGUERRA
Yellow Tag Sale
BRENDA COULTAS
The Tear in the Fabric between Time and Space
DANIEL SUAREZ
A Memory Forgotten Remembered
TOM O'CONNOR
Desolate Magic
JOHN STEVEN CUMMINS
from Hive Mind
AMANDA M. JOHNSON
On Remarks On Colour
AMANDA AUCHTER
Dead Letter Recovery
TERRY LUCAS
wind
KIMIKO HAHN
His Showres Soote
Reversal
BAHIYYIH DAVIS
Cooking in Tiers
BETH ROBERTS
The Clean Math
SHANLEY ERIN KANE
Skin
CLAY MATTHEWS
Late Eighties Elegy
MARGUERITE L. HARROLD
Close to Her
JOE LEDOUX
Black
ERIN M. BERTRAM
Poem [Apostasy V2.0 or Requiem On A Series Of Postcards]
WOODY LOVERUDE
Rifles, Kubrick, and Finally a Love Poem
LINDSAY BELL
Defense
ANGELA MARSHALL
Transcription
MEGAN HARLAN
Slower
BRIDGET LOVE
to spite the cancer in her
GARY FINCKE
The Fluoroscope Era
DAREN THURMAN
Nexus, Gnarl and Kink
BRIAN RUSSELL
Across The Street
SCOTT JACOB HIRSCH
Sisyphean Bowling
MATTHEA HARVEY
The Future of Terror / 5
Terror of the Future / 5
Temporary Family
DAVID WELCH
Ruritania
LARAIE ZIMM
Evacuat
NOAH ELI GORDON
Scorched Anecdote
ANI YARN
While islands are being built,
EMILY SMITH
Like Sunlight Unraveling
JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT
_____less
BRUCE BOND
Black Iris
BRIAN LEARY
Tilt
ROSMARIE WALDROP
Early Instincts Late Anxiety
MATVEI YANKELEVICH
Epistolary Poem
KIMIKO OSTROZOVICH
For All of Us
CHRISTINE HUME
Trust
Recurrent Curse