Columbia Poetry Review No. 21

Contents:

Todd Mccarty
            Miniature Series, 1975

Hoa Nguyen
            The Moon Is New
            Get Debt Relief

Anselm Berrigan
            Free Cell

Jamie Kazay
            Notes on Shy Trees
            With Apprehension

Matthew Zapruder
            Looking Up

Janie Miller
            Title: Juxtaposition of Peace

Jon Woodward
            A Complex Lattice
            Printer's Error (Portrait)

Jen Besemer
            from The Milky Way
            sea air land

Srikanth Reddy
            from Voyager I
            "A line is a difficult figure."
            "He may believe in strictly limited forms."
            "He cannot say relinquish it thus."

Timothy O'Keefe
            Broken Sonnet (It's a Wonderful Life)
            Broken Sonnet (Diagram in the Fire)

Mark Halliday
            Guidebook Embarassment

Thomas Mowe
            Elephant

Amy Gerstler
            Contrite
            Letter from the Middle Ages
            Broken Lines

Jeffery Conway
            My Prague

Misha Collins
            Old Bones
            Baby Pants

Matthew Rohrer
            A National Park in Hawaii

Sarah Blackman
            Bless Me, Delicious

Kate Greenstreet
            "your's"
            "all the year without you"
            "but even now I am perhaps not speaking"

Patrick Culliton
            Ascents

Kirsten Kaschock
            from The Dottery
            "Dear one for me,"

Nicole-Nzinga Darden
            "My mother's children were very pretty"
            The Sky Is, Now Like wolf creek in my mouth

Kelley Jean White
            Two Birds in Flame (No. 2)
            Two Birds in Flame (No. 6)

Reginald Shepherd
            Boy, Unclassical, Fragment
            As If From the Dead

Jett McAlister
            Self-Portrait as Go-Go Boy in a Moment of
               Religious Ecstasy

Matt Zambito
            Yet Another Poem About Love and Death

Richard Dugan
            "It's so hard to talk to people like"

Ted Jackle
            monument
            Given

Kathleen Ossip
            Poetry is Sardonic. Business is Sincere.

Joe Bly
            Bernadette Mayer

Meg Reilly
            Many red flags

Terence Winch
            Hidden Track

Kathy Fagan
            Butter

Kenyatta Rogers
            Safety

Patricia Spears Jones
            Ermine

Brad Gooch
            Cinematography

Tim Dlugos
            20 Early Poems

Christopher Ankney
            Elegy for Retrospection, Guns N' Roses, and a
                Little-known Man

Chip Livingston
            October City

Andrew Terhune
            Los Angeles, California

Diane di Prima
            Hometown    San Francisco
            Elegy

Stephen James Dvorak
            Third Funeral in Two Months
            October

Sara Wainscott
            Accident

Dora Malech
            Oh Grow Up
            My First Creation Myth
            Oh My Obit

Brenda Hillman
            december moon

Charles Jensen
            Venus At The Body Of Adonis

Michael Broder
            Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sodomite

Jason Schneiderman
            I Love You and All You Have Made

Julie Phillips Brown
            from Rhetorical Theatre
            "There was, she conceded, no way"

Jesse Crouse
            Pastoral

Nina Lindsay
            In our warm tree house of evening, you stood
               before the undone dishes and I answered the door

Paul Muldoon
            Good As It Gets

L.S. Klatt
            Lines Composed On An Open Space

James Thomas Stevens
            Sirenian
            Welcome

Larissa Szporluk
            Vortex Street

Aaron Smith
            Hurtful
            Song (Pitiful)
            Nude Yoga (Looking for UFOs)

William Coughlin
            Piano
            What I Did While You Were Sleeping

Carl Phillips
            Husk

Rey Escobar
            child

Mary Ann Samyn
            Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics
            Untitled or Not Yet
            I want you to scream it.

Benjamin Paloff
            Seneca on Banishment

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
            Peacocking

Gareth Lee
            Music

Clay Matthews
            One Bright Morning

Tony Medina
            Los Olvidados

Derrick Weston Brown
            What I'm Told: Paul D's Origin
               Sweet Home Men Series

Ashley Capps
            Salvo

Rafael Campo
            Pharmacopeia for the New Millennium

Russell Jaffe
            Eyes for You
            My Friend Strauss' Poem

Meghan M. Lee
            Barn Fire

Kate Brady
            Grit

Sadaf Ali
            "it is the anniversary"

E. Ethelbert Miller
            Chinese New Year
            The Widow of Baghdad

Jennifer Steele
            Affair in Fragments
            A Drag Queen Walks Into the Kit Kat Lounge

Naomi Shihab Nye
            She Was Always So Careful With Words
            What Will Happen To You?

Jo McDougall
            Talking With My Dead Daughter (1)
            Talking With My Dead Daughter (2)
            Responsibility

Noah Falck
            What Comes From Loneliness

Terrance Hayes
            Three Measures of Time
            Flame and Road for James Baldwin

Douglas Goetsch
            Next Door

Gary Soto
            Waiting at the Gate
            Late Night Drinking

Patrick Carrington
            The Comfort of Wounds

Dorianne Laux
            Over The Hedge

Michael Montlack
            The Yellow Bathing Suit

Ron Koertge
            The Evangelist's Wife

Michael J. Grabell
            Palimpsest

Tyler Flynn Dorholt
            Smoking

Rick Hilles
            Missoula Eclipse

Kate Dougherty
            Stunning

Danielle Pafunda
            Whichever Pen You Use to Sign, Your Own Blood Issues

Melissa Dickey
            Betrothal

Rae Armantrout
            Report
            Solution

Susan Yount
            Chicken
            A shortened list of names (and titles) in the order that
               I remember being called since 8 years old.

Stephanie Strickland
            Absinthe 10: Amma

Joshua Clover
            The Enlightenment Effect
            The Event

Carla Harryman
            from Adorno's Noise
            regard for the object, rather than communication
               is suspect

Jeff Walker
            Cabin Pressure

Mark Bibbins
            Bring Us a Souvenir from the Next War

Debra Bruce
            Birdwatcher

Tom DeRoma
            Hate
            Oda del Gringo

Nick Twemlow
            Talking Points
            "I don't want to go"

Alice Notley
            from Above The Leaders

Michael Robins
            I Wanted More Than I Could Steal

Robert McDonald
            Postcard Written at "The Perfect Cup"

Chris McCreary
            Songs to Learn & Sing

Bob Hicok
            Listing