Columbia Poetry Review No. 21

Managing Editor
Cora Jacobs

Editors
Richard Dugan
Joe Eldridge
Kristen Orser
Jennifer Steele
Nicole Wilson

Assistant Editors
Jesse Crouse
Stephen James Dvorak
Ted Jackle
Amanda Nielsen

Editorial Board
John Cacho
Regan Crisp
Tom DeRoma
Tyler Flynn Dorholt
Joshua Keiner
Meghan M. Lee
Monica Long
Katherine Mattes
Meg Reilly
Rocco Spiteri
Andrew Terhune

Faculty Advisor
David Trinidad

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

JEFFREY 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 COUGLHIN
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 MatthewsCLAY MATTHEWS
            One Bright Morning

Tony MedinaTONY 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