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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics





 
Volume I, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 1999-2000
 
 


 
 
 

FEATURED POET: WALT MCDONALD



 

~CONTENTS~
 
 

POETRY
 

Walt McDonald

"The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor"

"Leaving the Scene"

"The War in Bosnia"
 

Laura Kennelly

"Pre-Op"


John Ruff

"July, 1935-1943" (from a painting by Charles Burchfield)
 

Margot Schilpp

"The Fish Channel"
 

James Cervantes

"Spring Loaded"
 

Mary Linxweiler

"Fearless"
 

John Gilgun

"The Ant in the Shadow of This Blade of Grass"


 

ESSAY
 

Walt McDonald

"Advice I Wish I'd Been Told"
 
 
 
 

REVIEW
 

Edward Byrne

"The Quality of Mercy:
Philip Levine's The Mercy"


 
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
 
 

Recent and Recommended Books
 
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence