Contents

Hanna Andrews
In June '03, Emily take a job as a mermaid,
Old Photo Album, La Ciotat, 1996
Construction

Leanne Averbach
Where Envelopes Come From (1977)
Big
Cuba, por fin!

Dodie Bellamy
Orgasm

Charles Bernstein
Charmless Vector-Vector Decays
In the Next Issue

Graeme Bezanson
The World's Greatest Coin Collector
Eclogue ("Since its inception . . .")
Eclogue ("Ambiguity is good . . .")
Eclogue ("In Brooklyn the Gowanus . . .")
Eclogue ("Meteorites are faithless . . .")

Kristy Bowen
laurel, nebraska
double tongue

Margaret Brady
In a Chinese Garden
Horrible Way to Die #1,309
Mother, On Your Deathbed
Give Me
Haiku
The Good Word

Suzanne Buffam
Exit
Vanishing Interior
Infinitive Interior

Connie Deanovich
Little Is Known About the Mantella Expectata
Red, Gray, Black, and White Scarf
The 100 Miguels

C.H. Eding
"The whole time I'm in the downtown post office . . ."
Arriving at a Lakeside Cabin Compound
"Anderson's in Pine River"
What To Have With Beef Brisket

Jim Elledge
Sabbath of the Song
The Arrow & the Terror
Valise

Edward Field
Credo
Holy Orders
Judgment at Nuremberg
Mission Accomplished

Lisa Fishman
New Blank Document
Pin Drop
Exchange
Note
Forward and Back
Alphabet

Michael Friedman
Let Me Say
Works

Brad Gooch
Upon Seeing Gus Van Sant's Last Days
Birthday

Chet Gresham
Interstate 40, New Mexico
Buffalo Skinners
Decay

Chris Green
Big Red Barn
The Bat Poet
Gazelles

Bruce Hainley
Jean Genet
Prosody
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ian Harris
American Car Collector
Condensery
Bestiary

Jana Harris
Cynthia, Cyrus Stafford's First Wife
The Stove

Natalie Hill
Abilities
China Wedding
Wonder Woman: Unlimited

Brandi Homan
Are You Going to Wake Up
Poem in Which I Am My Own Porn Star

Cora Jacobs
Collected Dreams

Charles Jensen
I Am the Boy Who Is Tied Down

Richard Johns
Missed Connections
Sofa Poem

Amanda Johnson
riddled
What I could hear from my old bedroom
Toys

A. Van Jordan
The Fifth Beatle
Birth of a Nation
Viewing Birth of a Nation

Vincent Katz
calm
Poem
from Barge

erica kaufman
from censory impulse

Nathan Kernan
from Lunch

Becca Klaver
Day Six
Citation Toward Fight & Defense
Some Thoughts On Andy: An Occasional Poem

Brian Kloppenberg
Broken Robots
Look At You, Goofing
Sea Change
Transport

Rodney Koeneke
Tristia
We know what was in the plume you inhaled

Ron Koertge
Aphrodisiacs
Fragments from the Lost Frankenstein Journals: the
Hollywood Years
Lily

Michael Lally
Isn't That God?
from And If

Joan Larkin
Triolet: Nutritional Drink
Bracelet
Bethlehem

Dorianne Laux
"Father of minutes, father of days . . ."

Kimberly Lyons
Nethermead
Labyrinth
Leonora Carrington's Studio
Miss Brenda's Ghosts

Michael Magee
An Epistle To Mr. Sullivan
Dictator Boyfriend

Gillian McCain
Clever Gift Ideas
fountain avenue

Gillian McCain

Sharon Mesmer
Elinor Nauen
Renga 2006

Jo McDougall 
Summoning the Lost
At the Bedside of a Dying Cat, a Woman Learns
On Reading Yet Another Poem About Grief

Richard Meier
"These people, that tower they came out of . . ."
"The reader in the trees on the wagon . . ."
"Brothers in a previous life?"
"While David was seeing a ghost in the corner . . ."

Michael Montlack
If Hello Kitty Had a Mouth
A Golden Girls Prayer
Uncle Mame

Maggie Nelson
from Bluets

Linda Oh
Southpaws

Daniela Olszewska
Chernobyl Redux
Lizzie Borden Tattoo Convention

Maureen Owen
created from  local materials               like dirt
perforated with apertures for archers
lost luggage

Ronald Palmer
Al Pacino in a Red Velour Robe . . .

Ethel Rackin
Let This Be an Eraser
My Sister's Drawings of Trees
Throwing Out Candles

Donald Revell
Comes to Me
Lissen

Maxine Scates
Sacrifice

Jason Schneiderman
First Mouse
Self Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sex Object (Age 19)
Probability
Language Poem for Quitters
Poster Reading "Come to Christ"

Lloyd Schwartz
Swimming

Gregg Shapiro
Another Close Call
The Jew's Got a Sale On Suitcases

James Shea
Mechanical Foliage

Aaron Smith
Sticky
Anderson Cooper (Vanity Fair Magazine)
Open Letter
Casino Royale, 2006 (The Blue Speedo and Daniel Craig)

Joan Jobe Smith
The Nora and Dora Patchwork Quilt

Joris Soeding
On Seeing I, Robot, By Myself

BJ Soloy
Morning Unbroken, Spring Yet Unsprung
Dearest Alice,

Marti Stephen
you
as American
journey
lamentations of the everyday
unspoken

Mike Topp
Poem

Andy Trebing
First Impression of Anne Sexton
for Sappho
The Plot Against the Giant
The Condensery

Tony Trigilio
Dallas
If Something Happens

Jennifer Watman
what I liked about Chris' first apartment
Poem

Baron Wormser
My Great Aunt Gertie Who Lived to be Ninety Eight

 

 
 

A David Trinidad Publication for MiPOesias Magazine 2007