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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume XI, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2009-2010
 


Cover art: Georgia O'Keeffe (b. 1887 - d. 1986)
Rust Red Hills, 1930
  Oil on Canvas
Sloan Fund Purchase

Brauer Museum of Art, 62.02

 

FEATURED POET:

CHARLES WRIGHT
 



~CONTENTS~
 

EDITOR'S NOTE

"Tenth Anniversary of Valparaiso Poetry Review: A Note of Appreciation"


POETRY
 

Charles Wright

 "Road Warriors"

Claudia Emerson

"Ground Truth"

"Vacancy"

Cornelius Eady

"The Inaugural Poem, January, 1961"

 "Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat"

Dorianne Laux

 "Mine Own Phil Levine"

Dave Smith

 "Glasses"

"Ailanthus"

Annie Finch

"Each in Our Craft"

Alfred Corn

 "Swiss Army Knife"

"Bond Street Station Underground"

Frannie Lindsay

"Grandmother of the Groom" 

"Prayer on Janet's Birthday"

Brian Turner

"Molotov Cocktails"

"The Battle of Fucine Lake, AD 52"

Allison Joseph

"Little Epiphanies"

David Kirby

"Joe Louis in Idaho" 

"Funny Anything"

Daisy Fried

"Liberalism"

"Jackie's Wedding"

Sherman Alexie

"Homily"

Katharine Coles

"Collector"

"Hawks"

Reginald Gibbons

"After Wang Wei"

Margot Schilpp

"Secrets"

"Simplify"

Kwame Dawes

"Rituals Before the Poem" 

"Among the Dithering Feathers"

Virgil Suarez

"Isla de la Juventud"

"Caribe"
 
Mary Biddinger

"Treaty Line"

"Other Countries"


Daniel Tobin

  "BB"

"Hearth 'n Kettle"

Catherine Tufariello

  "Flowering Pear"

Jared Carter
 

"The Pool at Noon"

"John Brown and His Men, with Some Account of the Roads Traveled to Reach Harper's Ferry"

Eric Nelson
 
"In Her Memory"

Patricia Fargnoli
  
"Cold River Season"

"The Places Between"

Floyd Skloot
  
"At Rowan Oak"

Alison Stine
  
"Marriage"

 "Child Bride"

Greg Rappleye
  
"Sun Gems (ca. 1864-1865)"

"The Apprentice Lithographer's Story"

T.R. Hummer
  
"Evening Report"

"Everything That Is the Case"

Susan Donnelly
  
"Congo School"

Sebastian Matthews
  
"Zones of Providence"

"Miracle Day"

Martha Silano
  
"Because I Knew"

H. Palmer Hall
  
"A Dream of Hoops"

Diane Lockward
  
"Hunger in the Garden"

"The Temptation of Mirage"

Joel Peckham
  
"Blind Spots"

"My Son, Five, Dancing"


Elizabeth Swados
  
"The Dark Ages"


Jeffrey Skinner
  
"Event Horizon"



R
EVIEWS

 

Susanna Childress

"Four Reviews: Jericho Brown, Stephanie Brown, William Greenway, and Cathy Park Hong"

 

Edward Byrne

"The World as We Know It: Charles Wright's Scar Tissue, Littlefoot, and Sestets"
 


C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Georgia O'Keeffe: Rust Red Hills"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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