Columbia Poetry Review No. 22

CPR 21

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

Contents

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


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