Category: Winter 2013 Issue
Ulrike Draesner
has published five books of poetry, four novels, and two volumes of short stories. She is also the author of two collections of essays and has
Maria DiLorenzo
received her bachelor’s in English from the College of Staten Island and holds a master’s of fine arts in poetry from Hunter College. She
Tom Daley
has poems forthcoming in — or has work previously published in — a number of journals, including, Massachusetts Review, Harvard Review, Prairie
Bill Brown
recently retired as a part–time lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has authored five poetry collections, three chapbooks, and a
Philip Arnold
now calls Ohio home after spending most of his life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Several of his poems have appeared in The Iowa
Nancy Allison
had as poetry teachers Michael Waters and Amy Clampitt and, before them, the woods and waters of the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1990s, she moved to
“what is poetry?”
by Ulrike Draesner translated from German by Iain Galbraith cleaning vacuuming wiping runny noses a scraped knee stroking tummy to put
through the woods, the nested stalks
by Ulrike Draesner translated from German by Iain Galbraith the trunks, chopped, logged (brandenburg wood) the soft firs laid on long
ball-lightning, hammond organ
by Ulrike Draesner translated from German by Iain Galbraith but didn’t she but didn’t she die but didn’t she revive and was therefore
Sweeney’s Nest
by Philip Arnold An Irish King of Connaught, Sweeney was cursed and made to think he was a bird. How I skimmed the battered