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Winter 2000

Soft Millenium

Issue 9

Robert Haywood

introduction

Claes Oldenberg's Aesthetic of Equivalence

 

 

Claes Oldenberg

poetry

Drops in Gray Water; From Fear of New York

 

 

Geoff Schmidt

story

How the Grinch Did Penance, Or A Survey of Western Literature

 

 

Martha Zweig

poetry

Nothing to Brag About

       Ruth Armstrong Interviews Martha Zweig

 

 

Julianna Baggott

poetry

After Eleven Days of Rain

       Author's Note

 

 

Laton Carter

poetry

Decision; Scarce

 

 

Annie Finch

poetry

A Letter For Emily Dickinson; Poulenc

       Author's Biographical Note
      
A Review of Annie Finch's Eve by Carolyn Kizer
      
Poetic poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
       Letter to Ed poetry reading, requires RealPlayer

 

 

Norman Finkelstein

poetry

Scribe

       Scribe: A Commentary

 

 

Gordon Weaver

story

A Carted Whore

       Author's Note on "A Carted Whore" and "Kempe's Nine Days Wonder"
      
Kempe's Nine Days Wonder fiction

 

 

Geoffrey Gardner

poetry

Welcome; Inland In This World

       May poetry
      
Starksboro poetry
      
Another Spring poetry

 

 

Kurt Heinzelman

poetry

Civilities In Time Of Civil War; The Origin of Circles

 

 

James Finnegan

poetry

Dirigible Days; Purple

 

 

Janet Holmes

poetry

Three Performances

 

 

Teresa Iverson

poetry

Baroque Dancer

       Here the Marsh... poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
          from the CD-ROM collection One Side of the River: Poets of Cambridge & Somerville.        Kaleidoscope poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
          from the CD-ROM collection One Side of the River: Poets of Cambridge & Somerville.

 

 

Susanne Davis

poetry

The Law of Gravity

 

 

Gerard Malanga

poetry

On the Bridge

       Gerard Malanga on the Web off-site homepage
       Author's picture

 

 

Peter Dale Scott

poetry

Minding the Darkness III.xi

 

 

Barry Silesky

poetry

Trapdoor

 

 

Illegible Due to Blotching: Poetic Authenticity and its Discontents review

David Wojahn

 

 

Robert McNamara

poetry

When My Mother Came Back From Barbados; After the Rain, and Kant

       Author's Bio
      
Sati, Seventh Month, By the Sea poetry
       Winged Ants, Millers, Spiders, Moths 1963 poetry
       When My Mother Came Back from Barbados poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
       After the Rain and Kant poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
       Robert McNamara on the Web off-site homepage

 

 

Anthony Libby

poetry

Film Noir; Far From Lowell

 

 

Mary Ann Moran

poetry

Falling In Europe

       First Love Poem poetry
       Balance Is All to the Undecided poetry
       Primitive poetry
       Miranda's Summer poetry

 

 

John Peck

poetry

An Unstruck Sound is the Initial Move

 

 

Jarda Cervenka

story

Billy's Last Smoke

       Author's Biography and Photo

 

 

James S. Proffit

poetry

Somehow Earlier, Fields of Brushy Pain Outside and Flat, Though Painful

 

 

Peter Robinson

poetry

The House Museum; Something to Declare

       The House Museum poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
       Something to Declare poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer
          On Revising "Something to Declare"
       More Aftershocks poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer

 

 

Ryan G. Van Cleave

poetry

After Metaphor

 

 

CarolAnn Russell

poetry

Poets of the Cimitero Acattolico

       CarolAnn Russel on the Web off-site homepage

 

 

Reginald Shepherd

poetry

Polaroid

 

 

D. James Smith

poetry

Legacy; Now the Clouds are Gone

 

 

Corrinna Vallianatos

poetry

Late Night; Boy Loading Wagon; Father "Overcome By Despair"

       At the Bus Depot poetry

 

In the Haze of Pondered Vision: Yvor Winters as Poet review

Robert Archambeau

 

A Blue Moon In Poorwater short review

Tony D'Souza

 

Editors Select
       R. D. Skillings, Where the Time Goes.
       M.G. Stephens, Where the Sky Ends: A Memoir of Alcohol & Family.
       Jay Neugeboren, Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living With Mental Illness.
       Jamie Kalven, Working with Available Light: A Family's World after Violence.
       Virgin Fiction 2, Rob Weisback Books.
       A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne.
       Christopher Merrill, Only the Nails Remain.
       John Phillip Santos, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.
       John Peck, Collected Shorter Poems 1966-1996.
       Sandra Alcosser, Except by Nature.
       Michael Coffey, 87 North.

 

Contributors' Notes

 

 

8L

 

 

Yanbing Chen

story

Genghis Khan

 

Robert Crawford

poetry

Knowledge; Anstruther; Alford

             On Robert Crawford bio

 

Corrinne Clegg Hales

poetry

Exposure

 

Alison Jarvis

poetry

The Same Hour Has Come Inside My Body

 

John Engels

poetry

Heron; The Orders

             Walking to Cootehill review

 

Ghosts story

Ed Falco

             Interview with the Author interview & author's photo
             Tulsa Snow fiction, offsite
             Acid fiction, offsite
             Self-Portrait as Child with Father fiction, offsite

 

G.E. Murray

poetry

Annointing the Unprepared

 

Kevin Prufer

poetry

Trompe L'Oeil

             Author's Statement bio
             Astronomer's Prayer poetry
             The Living poetry
             Two Muses Discuss Arrowheads poetry

 

John Peck

poetry

The Bench at Fontainebleau

 

Teresa Iverson

poetry

Grandmother Crow

Trapped in the Catskills poetry, reading , requires RealPlayer

David M. Katz

             Adoration of the Babe poetry, reading, requires RealPlayer

 

Linda Kinnahan

poetry

Getting Language

 

Christie Hodgen

story

Raised Arms

Love Penned Red poetry

Sean Brendan-Brown

             March Morning poetry
             The Bus to Laurel poetry
             Rose-Glass Medallion poetry
             The Dark Side of Dazzle poetry
             The Singer in Eden poetry
             Author's Photo

 

Rob Faivre

poetry

Walking

Westward the Course of Empire art

Don Pollock

Heartland art

Don Pollack

Diagram for the Apprehension of Simple Forces art

Jason Salavon

 

Orlando Ricardo Menes

poetry

Bitter Algae

             Author's bio bio & author's photo
             Crib of Reeds poetry
             Doña Flora’s Hothouse poetry
             Siglo de Oro poetry

 

Tom Smith

poetry

The Butterfly Project

             Note on The Butterfly Project commentary & author's photo

Marriage of Convenience story, reading, requires RealPlayer

Harriet McBryde Johnson

             Author's Bio bio & author's photo
             Author's Comment on A Marriage of Convenience commentary
             Accidents of Nature excerpt

 

Kelly Ritter

poetry

History; Michael Furey

             New Age Truck Stop poetry
             Gesture poetry
             Kelly Ritter on the Web off site

 

Kelly Le Fave

poetry

Lament