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VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics



 
Volume IX, Number 1
Editor:  Edward Byrne

Fall/Winter 2007-2008
 


Cover art: John August Swanson (b. 1938)
Festival of Lights, 2000
  Screenprint on paper, 45/250

Brauer Museum of Art, 2000:27

 

FEATURED POET:

JOHN BALABAN
 



~CONTENTS~
 

POETRY
 

John Balaban

 "Finishing Up the Novel After Some Delay"

Kay Mullen

 "An Dinh Palace"
 

W.D. Ehrhart

 "Golfing with My Father"

"Coaching Winter Track in Time of War"


H. Palmer Hall

 "Vietnam Roulette"


Sheila Black

"Romance"
 

Andrew Frisardi

 "No Photo"
 

Penny Harter

"Archaeology" 


John Drexel

 "No History, No Geography"
 

T. Alan Broughton

"Bird in the Garage"
 

Barbara Crooker

 "Lemons" 


Michael Dobberstein

 "Weight"
 

Jeff Friedman

"Night of the Bat"
 

Christa Mastrangelo

"O"


Nick Conrad

"Mountain"
 

Andrés Rodriguez

"The Late Age"
 

Laura Davies Foley

"Echoes"
 

Michael Catherwood

"Three Variations on the Suspension of Time" 

 
Barry Spacks

  "Two Portraits in a Gallery"


Lesley Wheeler

  "Tornado Season"


Randall Horton 

"A Blues Birthed into Go-Go"

Kate Gale
 
"Poker Players"

William Aarnes
  
"Kindly"


William H. Wandless
  
"Sojourner's Séance"



ESSAYS


W.D. Ehrhart

"Words for John Balaban"


H. Palmer Hall

"John Balaban's Vietnamese Translations"



I
NTERVIEW

"Q & A with John Balaban: Evan Scott Bryson"



R
EVIEWS

 

Janet McCann

"Kay Mullen: A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam"

 

Celia Bland

"Jeff Friedman: Black Threads"
 

Diane Lockward

"Kathleen Flenniken: Famous"


Edward Byrne

"Exquisite Music: John Balaban's Path, Crooked Path"
 


C
OVER ART

 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"John August Swanson: Festival of Lights"
 
 


CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES


Recent and Recommended Books
 

  Submission Guidelines and Correspondence
 
 

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