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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume VII, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2005-2006
 


Cover art: Robert Cottingham (b. 1935)
W. 12th, 1992
Gouache on paper

Sloan Fund Purchase
Brauer Museum of Art, 2001:40

 

FEATURED POET:

KEVIN PILKINGTON
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

Kevin Pilkington

 "Capri"

Joey Nicoletti

 "The Cook-Out"
 

Annette Basalyga

 "Going Blind"


David Graham

 "Cold Comfort"
 
"Controlled Skid"


Jeanine Stevens

"The Meaning of Monoliths"
 

Martin Ott

 "Breathless"
 

Pamela Gemin

"Raspberries" 

"Bottom of the Cup"

Fredrick Zydek

 "Family Secrets"
 

Ronda Broatch

"Woman Feeds on the Fragments of a Day Without Rain"
 

Lex Runciman

 "How Dawn Begins"
 
"Broadmoor"


Deema K. Shehabi

 "Of Harvest and Flight"
 

T. Alan Broughton

"Discoveries"
 

Rebecca Dunham

"Letter-Elegy"
 
"Two Photographs"


David Joseph

"Childhood"
 

Lee Slonimsky

"Pythagoras Goes to Work"
 

Barry Ballard

"The Re-invited"
 

Steven Winn

"Masaya" 

 
Herman Asarnow

  "Double Fault"


Laurence Lieberman

  "Stick Paramours"


INTERVIEW

 

Linda Simone

"Ready to Eat the Sky: An Interview of Kevin Pilkington"


ESSAY


David Graham

"The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday"


R
EVIEWS

 

Michael Milligan

"Two Reviews: Patricia Fargnoli's Duties of the Spirit and Susan Terris's Poetic License"
 

Mike Chasar

"Campbell McGrath: Pax Atomica"
 

Edward Byrne

"Music and Memory: Donald Justice's Collected Poems"
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"W. 12th"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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