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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume VI, Number 2
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Spring/Summer 2005
 


Cover art: Gregg Hertzlieb (b. 1965)
Fare, 1999
Watercolor and ink on paper

Collection of the Artist

 

FEATURED POET:

JARED CARTER
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Jared Carter

 "Honor System"

Gaylord Brewer

 "Apologia to Mars and Moon"
 

Anne C. Bromley

 "Monsoon Theatre"


Daniel Saalfeld

 "Snake Meat"
 

Michele Reese

"Plant Life"
 

Tony Barnstone

 "Oh, Great, He Gets To Go on Vacation"
 

Patricia Clark

"Grove" 

"Turning Away from the River"

Terrence Savoie

 "Ma Mére"
 

Donna Pucciani

"Jet Lag"
 

James Rioux

 "Possum"
 

Susan Rich

 "Waving Goodbye to River Road"
 

Greg Keeler

"Under the River's Rush"
 

Barbara Crooker

"Impressionism"
 
"All There Is To Say"


Walter Bargen

"Visual Appeal"
 

Frannie Lindsay

"Talking to My Father About God"
 

Jan Koenen

"August"
 

Joel McCollough

"Scroll"

  "Cards Every Friday"

 
Katherine Riegel

  "Some River"


Don Russ

  "Myself in You"


Paul Nelson

  "Busy"


INTERVIEW

 

Jough Dempsey

"Q & A with Jared Carter"


REVIEWS
 

D.A. Jeremy Telman

"Joshua Mehigan: The Optimist"
 

Barbara Crooker

"Marilyn L. Taylor: Subject to Change"
 

Gilbert Purdy

"Ted Kooser: Delights & Shadows"
 

Erin Murphy

"'Dark Come Earlier Every Day': Diane Gilliam Fisher's Kettle Bottom"


Edward Byrne

"'To Learn To Love the Blues': William Matthews's Search Party"
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"Fare"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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