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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume X, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2009
 


Cover art: Abraham Rattner (b. 1893 or 1895 - d. 1978)
Still Life Composition No. 3, 1950
  Oil on panel, 32 x 39 inches
Sloan Fund Purchase

Brauer Museum of Art, 87.24

 

FEATURED POET:

INGRID WENDT
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Ingrid Wendt

 "Armistice"

Pam Bernard

 "War Work"
 

Gary Fincke

 "Before Salk"


Christine Cuccio

 "New Jersey Spring"


Ann Fisher-Wirth

"Happiness"
 

Doug Ramspeck

 "Bright Snake"
 

Barbara Crooker

"One Word" 

Michael Meyerhofer

 "Portrait of a Midwestern Exile on Wheels"


Alison Townsend

"Great Horned Owl"


Christopher Cessac

"Romance, Wisconsin"
 

Penny Harter

"The Lens of Fire"

Kay Mullen

"You Ask Why I Left"
 

F. Daniel Rzicznek

"Green Tree Memento"
 

Susan Elbe

"Will Come Back"


Suzanne Roberts

"Rain in Venice"
 

David Rothman

"Some Accusations"
 

Allan Peterson

"Singing and a House"
 

Ellen Goldstein

"You Ask If I Have Plans" 

 
William Ford

  "The House of Music"


Jeanine Stevens

  "A Date at the La Brea Tar Pits"


Joannie Stangeland 

"When the Nights Lie Down White"

James Owens
 
"Temple"

Susan Rich
  
"You Might Consider"


Norbert Krapf
  
"Still Dark"


Terese Svoboda
  
"Octopus"



A COLLABORATIVE HALF-CROWN OF SONNETS

Judith Barrington, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Julie Kane, Julia Lisella, D'Arcy Randall, Kathrine Varnes, Lesley Wheeler

"Frequencies"



INTERVIEW


Barbara Crooker

"Ingrid Wendt Interviewed by Barbara Crooker"



ESSAYS


Ingrid Wendt

"Turning to Poems"



Edward Byrne

"Life and Language: On the 50th Anniversary of Robert Lowell's Life Studies"



R
EVIEWS

 

Lesley Wheeler

"Beautiful as My Knees Dissolve: Susan Settlemyre Williams's Ashes in Midair"

 

Michael Leong

"The Poetic Optometrist: Philip Metres' To See the Earth"
 

Karen J. Weyant

"Gwen Hart: Lost and Found"


John D. Groppe

"A Hoosier's Legacy: Norbert Krapf's Bloodroot: Indiana Poems"


 


C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Abraham Rattner: Still Life Composition No. 3"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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