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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume XI, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2010
 


Cover art: Thomas H. Kapsalis (b. 1925)
Still Life and Cloth, 1984
  Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches
Collection of the Artist


 

FEATURED POET:

BRIAN TURNER
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Brian Turner

 "Helping Her Breathe"

Kathryn Stripling Byer

 "Beachwalkers"
 

Nathaniel Bellows

 "Mercy"


Thomas Reiter

 "Forcing the Forsythia"


Lisa Lewis

"A Threat in May"
 

James Harms

 "Keep My Word"
 

Katherine Soniat

"The Swing Girl" 

Joanna Pearson

 "The Conjoined Twins"


Bob Watts

"Map of the Unknown World"


Cheryl Lachowski

"The Burn"
 

Charles Fishman

"Diwali Morning"


Carolyn Guinzio

"Floor & Wall"
 

Norman Minnick

"For a Wounded Hawk"
 

Catherine Staples

"Hacking Out"


Pamela Gemin

"Desire"  


Brad Clompus

"Elephant House, 1977"
 

Cynthia Atkins

"Google Me"
 

R.G. Evans

"Certain Words" 

 
Robin Chapman

  "Bowing to the Ostrich"


Richard Newman

  "Old Lady at the Beach"


Christine Stewart-Nunez 

"Art Lessons"

Richard Schiffman
 
"Aftermath"

Sally Van Doren
  
"Shill"


Michael Blumenthal
  
"Autobiography of a Face"


Marilyn Kallet
  
"Dr. Robert Darwin Weighs In"


Henrietta Goodman
 
"Navigation"


Karen Kovacik
 
"Flooding the House"


Mark DeFoe
 
"At Some Website I Am Asked for My Mother's Name"


Valerie Wohlfeld
 
"Villanelle: Wedding Portrait"


Rebecca Dunham
 
"Rebecca"


Susan Rich
 
"Aperture"


Kevin Pilkington
 
"Sunset in the Refrigerator"


Gwen Hart
 
"Spell"


Rebecca Foust
 
"Elocution Lesson"


Sean Thomas Dougherty
 
"The Snow Capped Mountains that Surround the City Begin to Dance"


Heather Derr-Smith
 
"Impartation"


William Greenway
 
"Good Stories"



I
NTERVIEW


Edward Byrne

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



ESSAY


Alexander Long

"Lunch with Larry"



R
EVIEWS

 

Lesley Wheeler

"Word-Dissolves: Charlotte Mandel's Rock Vein Sky"

 

Barbara Crooker

"Marguerite Bouvard: The Unpredictability of Light"
 

Janet McCann

"Patricia Fargnoli: Then, Something"


Hila Ratzabi

"Barefoot Voice: The Insecurity of Language in Li-Young Lee's Behind My Eyes"


Burt Kimmelman

"Kevin Pilkington: In the Eyes of a Dog"

 

Edward Byrne

"Walking Among Them: Brian Turner's Phantom Noise"



C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Thomas H. Kapsalis: Still Life and Cloth"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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