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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
 

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Volume XI, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2010


Featured Poet: Brian Turner

Additional Poets: Cynthia Atkins, Nathaniel Bellows, Michael Blumentahal, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robin Chapman, Brad Clompus, Mark DeFoe, Heather Derr-Smith, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Rebecca Dunham, R.G. Evans, Charles Fishman, Rebecca Foust, Pamela Gemin, Henrietta Goodman, William Greenway, Carolyn Guinzio, James Harms, Gwen Hart, Marilyn Kallet, Karen Kovacik, Cheryl Lachowski, Lisa Lewis, Norman Minnick, Richard Newman, Joanna Pearson, Kevin Pilkington, Thomas Reiter, Susan Rich, Richard Schiffman, Katherine Soniat, Catherine Staples, Christine Stewart-Nunez, Sally Van Doren, Bob Watts, Valerie Wohlfeld

Interview: Q & A: Brian Turner Interviewed by Edward Byrne

Essay: “Lunch with Larry,” Alexander Long on Larry Levis and Philip Levine

Poets Reviewed: Marguerite Bouvard, Patricia Fargnoli, Charlotte Mandel, Kevin Pilkington, Brian Turner

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Thomas Kapsalis


Volume XI, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2009-2010


Featured Poet: Charles Wright

Additional Poets: Sherman Alexie, Mary Biddinger, Jared Carter, Katharine Coles, Alfred Corn, Kwame Dawes, Susan Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, Patricia Fargnoli, Annie Finch, Daisy Fried, Reginald Gibbons, H. Palmer Hall, T.R. Hummer, Allison Joseph, David Kirby, Dorianne Laux, Frannie Lindsay, Diane Lockward, Sebastian Matthews, Eric Nelson, Joel Peckham, Greg Rappleye, Margot Schilpp, Jeffrey Skinner, Floyd Skloot, Martha Silano, Dave Smith, Alison Stine, Virgil Suarez, Elizabeth Swados, Daniel Tobin, Catherine Tufariello, Brian Turner

Poets Reviewed: Jericho Brown, Stephanie Brown, William Greenway, Cathy Park Hong, Charles Wright

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Georgia O'Keeffe


Volume X, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2009


Featured Poet: Ingrid Wendt

Additional Poets: Pam Bernard, Christopher Cessac, Barbara Crooker, Christine Cuccio, Susan Elbe, Gary Fincke, Ann Fisher-Wirth, William Ford, Ellen Goldstein, Penny Harter, Norbert Krapf, Michael Meyerhofer, Kay Mullen, James Owens, Allan Peterson, Doug Ramspeck, Susan Rich, Suzanne Roberts, David Rothman, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Joannie Stangeland, Jeanine Stevens, Terese Svoboda, Alison Townsend

Poetry Collaborative: “Frequencies,” a half-crown of sonnets by Judith Barrington, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Julie Kane, Julia Lisella, D’Arcy Randall, Kathrine Varnes, Lesley Wheeler

Interview: Barbara Crooker interviews Ingrid Wendt

Essays: Edward Byrne on Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, Ingrid Wendt on “Turning to Poems”

Poets Reviewed: Gwen Hart, Norbert Krapf, Philip Metres, Susan Settlemyre Williams

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Abraham Rattner



Volume X, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2008-2009



Featured Poet: Elise Paschen  

Additional Poets: Crystal Bacon, Walter Bargen, J. P. Dancing Bear, Michelle Bitting, Deborah Bogen, Karen Carissimo, Jared Carter, John Estes, Stacia Fleegal, Ann Hostetler, Joseph Hutchison, Rhoda Janzen, Claire Keyes, Athena Kildegaard, Al Maginnes, Molly Mellinger, Julie L. Moore, Steve Myers, Mil Norman-Risch, Tad Richards, Steven D. Schroeder, Nic Sebastian, Peter Serchuk, Vincent Spina, Alexandra Teague, Larry Thomas, Susan  Varnot, Valerie Wallace, Jennifer Yaros

Interview: Edward Byrne interviews Elise Paschen

Essay: Jennifer Yaros on "Nature and the Self: Dickinson, Bishop, Plath, and Oliver"

Poets Reviewed: Deborah Bogen, Paula Bohince, Marianne Boruch, Barbara Crooker, Brendan Galvin

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on John James Audubon



Volume IX, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2008



Featured Poet: Lynnell Edwards  

Additional Poets: Mary Biddinger, Ronda Broatch, Peter Cooley, Lightsey Darst, Carol V. Davis, Chris Ellis, Patricia Fargnoli, Brent Goodman, Julia Kasdorf, April Lindner, Frannie Lindsay, Joanne Lowery, Jennifer MacPherson, Greg McBride, Peggy Miller, Joey Nicoletti, Doug Ramspeck, Sean David Ross, Lex Runciman, Don Schofield, Martin Walls, Vincent Wixon

Essay: Jeffrey Frank on Zbigniew Herbert

Poets Reviewed: Lynnell Edwards, Bobbi Lurie, Sarah Manguso, Kate Northrup, Rosemary Winslow

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Frederic Edwin Church


Volume IX, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2007-2008



Featured Poet: John Balaban  

Additional Poets: William Aarnes, Sheila Black, T. Alan Broughton, Michael Catherwood, Nick Conrad, Barbara Crooker, Michael Dobberstein, John Drexel, W.D. Ehrhart, Laura Davies Foley, Jeff Friedman, Andrew Frisardi, Kate Gale, H. Palmer Hall, Penny Harter, Randall Horton, Christa Mastrangelo, Kay Mullen,  Andrés Rodriguez, Barry Spacks, William H. Wandless, Lesley Wheeler

Interview: Evan Scott Bryson interviews John Balaban

Essays: W.D. Ehrhart and H. Palmer Hall on John Balaban

Poets Reviewed: John Balaban, Kathleen Flenniken, Jeff Friedman, Kay Mullen

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on John August Swanson



Volume VIII, Number 2

Spring/Summer 2007



Featured Poet: Diane Lockward  

Additional Poets: Jon Ballard, Michelle Bitting, Chris Bullard, Michael Diebert, Daniel Donaghy, George Eklund, Clifford Paul Fetters, Anne Haines, Paul Hostovsky, Jen Karetnick, Jessica de Koninck, Sara Lamers, Robert Lietz, Judith Montgomery, Kevin Rabas, Lee Rossi, Rita Signorelli-Pappas, Martha Silano, Dwayne Thorpe, Constance Vogel, Lynn Wagner, Rosemary Winslow, Valerie Wohlfeld

Interview: Sondra Gash interviews Diane Lockward

Essay: "On the Newer Bees in Darwin's Garden," Joseph Powell

Poets Reviewed: Linda Bierds, Jared Carter, Jim Ferris, Mary Karr, Kathryn Levy, Diane Lockward, Ingrid Wendt

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Hazel Hannell



Volume VIII, Number 1 
Fall/Winter 2006-2007


Featured Poet: Mark Conway 

Additional Poets: Rane Arroyo, Sarah Brownsberger, Nick Bruno, E.G. Burrows, Jared Carter, Heidi Czerwiec, Jeanine DeRusha, Taylor Graham, Carol Hamilton, Jason Huskey, Elizabeth Kirschner, Jeff Knorr, Frannie Lindsay, Richard O'Connell, Thomas Reynolds, Helen Ruggieri, Jordan Sanderson, J.D. Schraffenberger, Beth Simon, Lynn Strongin, Scott Welvaert

Essays: Laura Ebberson on Elizabeth Bishop, Claire Keyes on Marianne Boruch

Poets Reviewed: Mark Conway, Robert Crawford, Claudia Emerson, Lance Larsen, Judith Montgomery, Vivian Shipley

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Dean Porter



Volume VII, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2006


Featured Poet: Catherine Tufariello  

Additional Poets: Gil Allen, Ned Balbo, Claire Bateman, Anne Britting Bowman, Kim Bridgford, Michelle Brooks, Michael Dobberstein, Jeanine Dobbs, Lynnell Edwards, Brent Fisk, Norbert Krapf, Jeff Newberry, Allan Peterson, Michael Salcman, Matthew W. Schmeer, Davi Walders

Interview: Kathleen Mullen interviews Catherine Tufariello

Poets Reviewed: Patricia Clark, Barbara Crooker, B.H. Fairchild, Patricia Fargnoli, Lynn Levin, Catherine Tufariello

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Frank V. Dudley



Volume VII, Number 1 
Fall/Winter 2005-2006


Featured Poet: Kevin Pilkington 

Additional Poets: Herman Asarnow, Barry Ballard, Annette Basalyga, Ronda Broatch, T. Alan Broughton, Rebecca Dunham, Pamela Gemin, David Graham, David Joseph, Laurence Lieberman, Joey Nicoletti, Martin Ott, Lex Runciman, Deema K. Shehabi, Lee Slonimsky, Jeanine Stevens, Steven Winn, Fredrick Zydek

Interview: Linda Simone interviews Kevin Pilkington

Essay: David Graham on "The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday"

Poets Reviewed: Patricia Fargnoli, Donald Justice, Campbell McGrath, Susan Terris

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Robert Cottingham

Volume VI, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2005

 

Featured Poet: Jared Carter 

Additional Poets: Walter Bargen, Tony Barnstone, Gaylord Brewer, Anne C. Bromley, Patricia Clark, Barbara Crooker, Greg Keeler, Jan Koenen, Frannie Lindsay, Joel McCollough, Paul Nelson, Donna Pucciani, Michele Reese, Susan Rich, Katherine Riegel, James Rioux, Don Russ, Daniel Saalfeld, Terrence Savoie

Interview: Jough Dempsey interviews Jared Carter

Poets Reviewed: Diane Gilliam Fisher, Ted Kooser, William Matthews, Joshua Mehigan, Marilyn L. Taylor

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Fare

 

Volume VI, Number 1 
Fall/Winter 2004-2005
 


Featured Poet: Adrianne Kalfopoulou 

Additional Poets: Amanda Auchter, Jackie Bartley, Mike Chasar, Patricia Fargnoli, H. Palmer Hall, Charles Israel, Miriam N. Kotzin, Gary Lechliter, Muriel Nelson, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Rochelle Ratner, Donald Stinson, J.L. Torres, Anne Wilson, Kirk M. Wright 

Poets Reviewed: Sharon Dolin, Rita Dove, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Ilya Kaminsky, Elaine Sexton 

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Paul Sierra 
 

 
Volume V, Number 2 
Spring/Summer 2004


Featured Poet: Margot Schilpp 

Additional Poets: Barry Ballard, J.P. Dancing Bear, Jared Carter, Barbara Crooker, Annie Finch, Carol Frith, Gray Jacobik, Doug Jones, Greg Keeler, Cheryl Lachowski, Joel Long, Chelle Miko, Kathleen Mullen, Lee Passarella, Marianne Poloskey, John Popielaski, Carol Coffee Reposa, Angela Vogel 

Poets Reviewed: Jeff Friedman, Jorie Graham, Amy Meckler, Margot Schilpp, Ann Silsbee 

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Elizabeth Nourse 
 

 
Volume V, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2003-2004



Featured Poet: Sherod Santos 

Additional Poets: Stephen Benz, Rebecca Dunham, Rhoda Janzen, Robin Kemp, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jeff Knorr, Heather Maring, Jim Murphy, Nicole Pekarske, Peter Serchuk, Rita Signorelli-Pappas, Ann Silsbee, Ricardo Sternberg, Kathrine Varnes, Benjamin Vogt 

Interview: Andrew Mulvania interviews Sherod Santos 

Essay: "Why I Still Write about the War," H. Palmer Hall 

Poets Reviewed: Diane Lockward, Sherod Santos, Don Schofield, Vivian Shipley 

Book of Essays Reviewed: Janet McCann reviews H. Palmer Hall's Reflections on Writing, Publishing, & Other Things

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on David Hockney 
 
 

Volume IV, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2003


Featured Poet: Bernardine Evaristo

Additional Poets: Claire Bateman, Ace Boggess, Kim Bridgford, Cyril Dabydeen, R.G. Evans, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Charles Fishman, Jeff Friedman, Alice Friman, Pamela Garvey, Z. Michael Jack, Steven Schroeder, Liz Tilton, Laura Lee Washburn, James R. Whitley 

Interview: Karen McCarthy interviews Bernardine Evaristo 

Poets Reviewed: Beth Ann Fennelly, Brenda Hillman, Gregory Orr 

Anthologies Reviewed: Jeffrey Alfier reviews anthologies of poetry about World War I and the Spanish Civil War 

Cover Art Commentary:  Gregg Hertzlieb on Ed Paschke 
 


Volume IV, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2002-2003


Featured Poets: David Graham and Kate Sontag 

Additional Poets: Kimberly Blaeser, Billy Collins, Barbara Crooker, Michael Dobberstein, Carol Frost, Brendan Galvin, Pamela Gemin, Bernhard Hillila, Colette Inez, Nathan S. Jones, William Matthews, Rick Mulkey, Alicia Ostriker, Stanley Plumly, Larry Thomas 

Essays:  "Examining the Poetry of Confession and Autobiography: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography," Edward Byrne; "Voluminous Underwear; or Why I Write Self-Portraits," David Graham; "Confessions of St. Charles: Confession as Spiritual Autobiography in the Work of Charles Wright" Andrew Mulvania; "Mother, May I?: Writing with Love," Kate Sontag 

Poets Reviewed:  Carol Frost, Susan Mitchell 

Cover Art Commentary:  Gregg Hertzlieb on Timothy Van Laar 
 
 

Volume III, Number 2 
Spring/Summer 2002


Featured Poet:  David Baker 

Additional Poets:  Barry Ballard, Jared Carter, Catherine Daly, John Gilgun, Marie C. Jones, Mary Linxweiler, Walt McDonald, Vivian Shipley, Floyd Skloot, Daniel Tobin, James R. Whitley 

Interview:  Daryll Tippens interviews Walt McDonald 

Essay:  Excerpt from "Introduction" to Heresy and the Ideal, David Baker 

Poets Reviewed:  David Baker, Jared Carter, Michael Palmer, Vivian Shipley 

Cover Art Commentary:  Gregg Hertzlieb on Stuart Davis 
 
 

Volume III, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2001-2002


Featured Poet:  Virgil Suarez 

Additional Poets:  Jill Pelåez Baumgaertner, Robert James Berry, David Bond, Daniel Henry, Gregg Hertzlieb, Leigh Kirkland, Thea S. Kuticka, Robert Lietz, Roger Phingston, Marianne Poloskey, Rebecca Reynolds 

Interview:  Ryan G. Van Cleave interviews Virgil Suarez 

Poets Reviewed:  Maggie Anderson, Jill Pelåez Baumgaertner, Larry Levis, Marianne Poloskey 

Cover Art Commentary:  Gregg Hertzlieb on Helen Frankenthaler 
 


Volume II, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2001


Featured Poet:  Laurence Lieberman 

Additional Poets:  Barbara Crooker, Reginald Gibbons, Bernhard Hillila, Halvard Johnson, Diane Lockward, Joel Peckham, Marilyn Taylor, Christina-marie Umscheid, Charles Wright 

Poets Reviewed:  Janet Holmes, Laurence Lieberman, Mark Strand 
 




Volume II, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2000-2001


Featured Poet:  Jonathan Holden 

Additional Poets:  Maxianne Berger, Chris Ellis, John Knox, Thomas David Lisk, Janet McCann, Margaret Perry, Beth Simon 

Essay:  "William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage," Jonathan Holden 

Interview:  Chris Ellis interviews Jonathan Holden 

Poet Reviewed:  Charles Wright 
 
 


Volume I, Number 2
Spring/Summer 2000


Featured Poet:  Patricia Fargnoli 

Additional Poets:  Jonathan Alexander, Jennifer Fett, H. Palmer Hall, Russ Kesler, Rachel Loden, Kathleen Mullen, Leilani Wright 

Poets Reviewed:  David Bottoms, Patricia Fargnoli, Rachel Loden 
 
 
 



Volume I, Number 1
Fall/Winter 1999-2000


Featured Poet:  Walt McDonald 

Additional Poets:  James Cervantes, John Gilgun, Laura Kennelly, Mary Linxweiler, John Ruff, Margot Schilpp 

Essay:  "Advice I Wish I'd Been Told," Walt McDonald 

Poet Reviewed:  Philip Levine 
 
 






 
 

 
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