Columbia Poetry Review No. 22

Managing Editor
Cora Jacobs
Editors
Thom DeRoma
Tyler Flynn Dorholt
Richard Dugan
Andrew Koszewski
Meghan M. Lee
Meg Reilly
Andrew Terhune
Editorial Board
Carl Aagesen
Joe Bly
Zach Green
Helen Kiernan
Dolly Lemke
Kyle Miner
Nate Olison
Steve Smaczniak
Abi Stokes
Chris Williams
Faculty Advisors
Becca Klaver
David Trinidad
RACHEL ZUCKER
Poem
JOEL DAILEY
Jot It Down Fancy
JEN MCCLANAGHAN
A Human Question
DOROTHEA LASKY
Little more than a player
Own Life
ERIC BAUS
Blue on Blue
SARAH JEDD
'Aphrodite' the headless horse-girl
TIMOTHY DONNELLY
Fun for the Shut-In
BUCK DOWNS
my secret job
repairs on a running engine
BOBBY C. ROGERS
How I'm Telling It
MAUREEN SEATON
Proclivities 2
BRANDI HOMAN
Things Have Been Said: Vol 1
LARA GLENUM
from Maximum Gaga
Pelvis Impersonator
Family Planning
BRIAN TURNER
Jundee Ameriki
BRANDON DOWNING
Florence
STEVIE CURL
Mr. Gomme Does Not, I Think, Use This Word
DOLLY LEMKE
I never went to that movie at 12:45
L.K. Leu L.K. LEU
What is Compulsory
TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN
To Go Insane from Happiness
REBECCA LEHMANN
To Feed and Water Ourselves and Others
CHRIS MARTIN
from Disequilibrium
THOMAS COOK
Love
JENNIFER L. KNOX
Gotta Light
JEN WATMAN
(an offering)
JIM DANIELS
Upon Hearing of the Death of
Arty “Ears” OsinskiI
JESS ROSE
His Happy Jail Pants
CATHERINE THEIS
My First Valentine
Heads or Tails
JOSHUA BECKMAN
“Wild mysteries abound . . .”
SANDRA SIMONDS
Your Own Winnebago
Dear Treatment,
EMILIE B. LINDEMANN
Panty Poems
BECCA KLAVER
No Country for Young Ladies
BRANDON DOWNING
Hiawatha
THOMAS HEISE
from The Journal of X
EVIE SHOCKLEY
celestial
BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG
L’Art Brut
MAUREEN C. EWING
With Her Voice in My Head
SUSAN M. FIRER
Dear Dr. Limnologist,
ONI BUCHANAN
The Wild Rabbit
Selection
ABI STOKES
The Blackbird’s Song
NOAH ELI GORDON
A Poem To Be Folded into
the Shape of a Slipper
GILLIAN CONOLEY
from The Plot Genie
JOANNE KYGER
Bottoms Up
Sorting
DONALD REVELL
“A line of hills
CHRISTIAN HAWKEY
[petition for an alien relative]
TISHA NEMETH-LOOMIS
Diving for Wine Vases
BRUCE WEIGL
Meditation After Prayer
JULIA COHEN
The History of a Lake Never Drowns
DAVID GIBBS
Nearly Forgetting the Anniversary of Your Leaving
BIN RAMKE
Treatment Options
DAVID BERMAN
Postcard to Becca Klaver
JOE WENDEROTH
Three poems
SETH OELBAUM
target
GREGORY KIEWIET
Clasp
ROSMARIE WALDROP
Three poems
HAFIZAH GETER
The Kitchen: Towards an Arrangement
MARK TERRILL
A Poem for Monosodium Glutamate
GEOFFREY FORSYTH
Progress
BEN DOLLER
FAQ:
[bayonet]
JOHANNES GORANSSON
from Entrance to a Colonial Pageant in Which We All Begin to Intricate
BRANDON DOWNING
Things Snakes Do Not Do
JOHN MURILLO
Enter the Dragon
DAWN LONSINGER
Incommensurable
GREGORY ORR
from How Beautiful the Beloved
TAO LIN
sometimes i feel like another person is ‘insane’
i feel good after drinking a little beer or a lot of coffee
AARON FLANAGAN
Under Hypnosis by Government’s Orders,
a Sniper Recollects Fragments of the Repressed
JANE MEAD
Mowing and Aftermath
KRISTIN ABRAHAM
Of Course
JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
from A Saint Among the Stragglers’ Beds
TIMOTHY LIU
The Famous Poet