Columbia Poetry Review No. 20

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Managing Editor
Cora Jacobs

Editors
Hanna Andrews
Amanda M. Johnson
Becca Klaver
BJ Soloy
Jennifer Watman

Assistant Editors
Margaret Brady
C.H. Eding
Monica Gerstemeier

Editorial Board
N'Kyenge Brown
Piper Daniels
Joe Eldridge
Ted Jackle
Shanley Erin Kane
Daniela Olszewska
Kristen Orser
Jessica Rose
Jennifer Steele
Nicole Wilson

Readers
Richard Dugan
Stephen Dvorak
Sara Faye Harvey
Nicole Martin

Faculty Advisor
David Trinidad

Contents

JEAN VALENTINE
Photographs at her Wake
The Poet

LISA FISHMAN
from On the Sea

JOE ELDRIDGE
A Giant Proposal

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY
A Brown Age
Moth Death on the Windowsill
A Poet’s Poem
Glass Family

ALBERTO RÍOS
The Leukemia Girls

SHIN YU PAI
lucky strike

BRANDI HOMAN
Typography: The Letter A
A History
Looking for Desnos

JAMES SHEA
This Is Not What I Came Here For

CHET GRESHAM
The Trouble With Documentaries

DENISE DUHAMEL
from Help (In 47 Languages)
Menahan
Naadamaagen
Namola

KRISTY BOWEN
the ten-in-one

CHRIS GREEN
Letter to cin salach

MIKE WHITE
Cinéma Vérité

D.A. POWELL & HAINES EASON
Jump Cut
Day for Night

HAINES EASON
Dear Dad,

BJ SOLOY
My Co-Pilot is a Welsh Pixiehorse

JULIE ROUSE
The Play House

BRIGITTE BYRD
(perhaps the reason was really that)

DEAN YOUNG
Arsonist at Rest
Half Story Half-life
Washing in Cold Water

ANGIE ESTES
Last Words

SUSAN KUREK
Truth #60

JASON TANDON
I Don’t Speak Donkey

LANDIS EVERSON
High Heels, Low Spirits
Troy Poem

MÓNICA DE LA TORRE
from One Hour Photo
Fuck the Stars and Other Heavenly Bodies
Exercise Your Monotony

MARK NEELY
Four Blues

SEAN FLYNN
Techno-Cento

AMANDA M. JOHNSON
I Remember (Being Sick and Injured)

FRANK GIAMPIETRO
Me Spy With My Little Eye
Please,

RACHEL FINKELSTEIN
Swiss Lint

JORDAN DAVIS
West To East (Ten Ten Wins)
The Sense Of An Ending

REBECCA LOUDON
Eating the tender thing that will not fill

ANIS SHIVANI
What the Iranian Woman Wants to Say to Her American Counterpart

K.E. DUFFIN
Mountaineer

RICHARD MEIER
Rainbow Report
Diurnal Round

TERESA K. MILLER
After Aftermath

HANNA ANDREWS
Dear you, all the coins have gone soft,

JOAN LARKIN
Last Seen
Phoning My Brother
Houston to Tucson

MIKE HAUSER
Triple Envelopment Strata

KAIA SAND
from family album of earthen estrangement
actual pedigree charting soap & milk
“did you read”
Brief Memoir

MICHAEL ROBBINS
On this date in history

DANIELLE AQUILINE
Cakes
Traveling Games

PATRICK WOODCOCK
The Saddest Ink

MICAH PERRY
Boot-Strap Blues

ARIELLE GREENBERG
Dissociative Fugue
Your Bad Feelings

STEVEN TEREF
salt machine.
in costume.

ALISON PICK
The Maps of the Labrador Arrive

SARAH MANGUSO
from Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
9
15
78
90

MATHIAS SVALINA
Creation Myth

ANDREW KOSZEWSKI
Once More, With Temper

BECCA KLAVER
Stare Too Hard and the Bad Feelings Creep Back

DANIELA OLSZEWSKA
Introducing: Jane Doe
The Spine Grower

RAY DIPALMA
Vladette, Vlädchen, Vladella

C.H. EDING
Parable
Off to College
document, personal poem: 10-27-04
Bells for a Black Mountain Poet

JEFF SCHIFF
Feeding Depression

KRISTEN ORSER
Another Reason for Gratuitous Worry

PETER JAY SHIPPY
from Freaks & Graces
Temps Mort
Air Conditioner
The Voice in the Next Room

BRUCE COVEY
Clytemnestra

MONICA GERSTEMEIER
Excuse Me

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS
Our Works

NICOLE WILSON
My Aunt Shows Me How To Abide Cancer

KATE BRADY
Comfort

RICK BAROT
Compass
Tacoma

RYAN COLLINS
Etiquette

AARON PATRICK FLANAGAN
Metacenter

JEANNINE HALL GAILEY
The Fox-Wife Describes Their Courtship

RYNN WILLIAMS
Insomnia

JESSE STEPHEN CROUSE
Swelling Like Airplane

BARBARA PEREZ
Holes Hold Together, a tautology

SIÂN KILLINGSWORTH
Jungian Parlor Game after Egg Drop Soup

THOM WILLIAMS
Nine of Swords

SUSEN JAMES
47 attempts to channel Hannah Weiner

MARTHA SILANO
Report from Connecticut on the Letter M,
the AB Pattern, the Counting by 2s, 3s, and 4s

ANDY TREBING
12/9/1980
Suicide Notes

CRYSTAL WILLIAMS
Polliwog
Cosmology

JENNIFER WATMAN
“i really don’t mind!     sleeping next to death”

DOBBY GIBSON
Civics Lesson

TONY TRIGILIO
I Led Three Lives
What I Missed

MARGARET BRADY
Praying Mantis

ED ROBERSON
Workshop, but with Nolan in Japan
Staying In Touch
Of Relative Time

KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
In Parenthesis, Rutilance

JESSICA BOZEK
Notes for Another Geometry Transport

JEFFREY MCDANIEL
Whitman on the F
Odysseus on the G

GRAHAM FOUST
Language Poem
Airport

CATE MARVIN
Pretty Speech (The Occasion of your Death)
Colder, Bitterer
You Cut Open

KATE DOUGHERTY
Sara without an H

LISA JARNOT
Bar Course Excise Insensible
Wax and be a gemingfeld and feed the well-greened earth
Sinning Skel Misclape

DAVID TRINIDAD
Classic Layer Cakes