Contributing Poets: 2009-2010

Featured Poet: Cecilia Woloch: Postcard To Ana Leo From A Storm, Ottava Rima: Rage, Patricia, Flying, Pantoum: Le Jardin D’Isabelle, The Anti-Bio

Joseph D. Milosch: Great Grandfather And Compost, Yellowstone’s Buffalo

Jason Runnion: Sitting On The No. 10 Bus, Command Performative

Gail Rudd Entrekin: Rearrangement Of The Invisible, Edinburgh

Brandon Cesmat: Escondereños, La Boca De Tijuana

Jen McBroom: I'll Remember, Sex Is Like . . .
Lilah Sugarman: BepaSheli RoyShelch, Collapse Of Recollections

Sam Hamod: Others Dreams, Kinds Of Sky ,

Siddhartha Sarkar: My Sister Called Me From Kolkata

Sandy Carpenter: Pointed Present, Eighth Wonder Of The World

Linda Hutchison: Santa Ana, Not My Scene

Lenny Lianne: See What I’m Saying, In Pursuit Of Happiness

R.D. Skaff: Poet’s Pasodoble, Valentine’s Day Again

Kristen Quinn: Second Hand Smoke

Tina V. Cabrera: Heavy Water Shed, Caged My Heart

Daniel Charles Thomas: C O R R E D O R

Kim Noriega To The Whore Who Took My First Husband, The Sound Of A Tattoo, Fading, Wedding Day; Dulzura, California

Paul Colaluca: Radio Afternoon

Linda Engel Amundson: Saint Barbara Of Mattel, Iceberg Garden

Curran Jeffery: Sideways Glance, The Sadder Side Of Things

Barbara Joan Tiger Bass: white sand beach, Galapagos Islands, navidad

Grace Marie Grafton: The Owl Speaks,

Dick Eiden: Understudies, Making Arrangements

Cheri M. Bentley-Buckman: Could Have Been Coal, Being An American

Cathy Woo: Gently Water Rubbed Back Of Rocks, Strength And Flexibility

Dolores Young: Again He Dreams Of Enshi, Melbourne

Brad McMurrey: Pronoun Relationships

Michael “Rocky” Silva: Goodbye Suburbia

Andy Palasciano (Untitled), Adolescence

Diane Funston: Maui, Revisited, Bones

Mai Lon Gittelsohn: Chop Suey, Looking For Sea Hares

Ken Buhr: PTSD, Clots

Clifton King: In Search Of The Esquire Girl, Highway 101

Kyla Krut: Light On A Still Life,

Maya Alvarez: (Untitled), Graduation Announcement

Marte Bröehm : Agapanthus And Geranium And Eucalyptus And Bird, Root

Steve Kowit: Small Boats, Crossing The River, Desperate Solutions

Adam O. Davis: Extinction Days, 1873., Filmstrip, 1962.

Jill Moses: Floating, Poem For Rene

Oriana: Wine Silk Skirt, Vivaldi

Kyle Martindale: Portrait of Myself As An Old Woman

T.C. Bagshaw: Drink A Glass Of Sweat In TJ

Jane Mushinsky Avenida Fuego, Gentrification

R. T. Sedgwick:The Ocean, White Apples

Mary Leary: Tonight As I Was Pushing Another Packet Of Crackers, Irish CD Review

Olga Garcia: Movie

Kate Harding: Blueberries, In Bed With The Glemby Hair

Rae Rose: A Statue Is Unveiled, Her Chagal

DHR Fishman: Love Potion, Milton’s Daughters

Heather Fowler: Dear, Dear, Snowed-in March Against the Beautiful Pain Memory Of Love

Bradley Steffens: El Chupacabras

Kathleen Peckham: Rookery, (Untitled)

Ruth Nolan: Wonder Valley, Silent Night

Iolanda Scripca: We Need The Dreaded Autumn

Kate Watson: The Bouquet

Billiekai Boughton: If You’re Torn, Morning Satellites

Shadab Zeest Hashmi: Juana La Loca

Trish Dugger: Scrambled, Otherwise

c.a.lindsay: line in the sand, c l e a n s h e e t s

Terrie Leigh Relf: Non-Geosynchronous Orbit, Cotton Candy

Anne-Marye Risher Dytewski: Mosaic Of War

Michael Cheno Wickert: We Were Born

Diana Griggs: Morning Cannot Be Allowed, The Tree

Harry Griswold: Phenylpropanolamine, Half-Told, 2009

David Bolduc: Catku, Weekends

C. V. Will: The Snail, Proportionality

Ann Tweedy: space & time

Devan Schwartz: Ginsberg

Gordon Lee Johnson: Moonlight Thump-Chump, Big Indian Woman Anthem

Diantha L. Zschoche: Eye Witness, Hostess

Angie Vorhies: On The Face of It

Lauren Owensby: Unraveling Passions

PS2 Marc Adamson, USS Jarrett: The One Who Is Like The Moon

Dionne Blaha: The Dance, Feather Messenger

Rod Bradley: The Lion, Letters

Joanne D’Amato: I Never Knew His Name, Second Chances

Daniela Schonberger: A Sense of Peace, Seafood City Market

Deborah Ramos: Sunset Silhouette

Terry Spohn Gorkis Comes To The Neighborhood Reunion, ice rose lane

Isabel P. Ball: A Hidden Path

Robt O’Sullivan Schleith: Map Of This New World

Jan Gallagher : Valley Center Memories, Starlight

Barbara Deming: Flower Music

Ephraim Scott Sommers: Palm Reading, The Patient

Luis Pichardo: Dictionary

Jon Wesick: Twenty-Five Definitions Of A Poem, Dogma’s Wife

Kristen Scott: Palermo,

John Webb: What We Learned About Love, As Much Here As Anywhere

Una Nichols Hynum: The Wild Kitten, Keeper Of The Bees

Denise Stephenson: First Person Singular,

Sharmagne Leland-St. John: Snug Harbour

Michael C Ford: A Poem That Refuses To Be Called Dusk, Squall

John Rubio: Bed And Breakfast, Sun Season

Peter Hepburn: Run Daddy Run

Seretta Martin: Let Sun In, In His Workshop

Anita Curran Guenin: Truth, Imagined Their Lives

Kelly Stokes Brown: Roll, Over Coffee

Christopher Mulrooney: Coronado, the glad nook

Jim Moreno: gender truth/human truth,

Nancy Shiffrin: First Rush Of Air,

Dewey Reeves: And The Worms Ate Into His Brain

Karen Stromberg: Congestion

Marco Alvarez: Girl From My Shower, The Sunlight And You

Margaret Susan McKerrow: The Abandoned Garden

Diane Gage: Scobey, Appearances

Sharon Laabs: We Said They Didn’t Get It

Tina Culp-Barton: just me and the moon

Fred Longworth: Because Feathers

Jillian Dimitriou: Grandma’s Visit, I Am

tomás gayton: Alone Together, South Park Blues

Lisa Albright Ratnavira: From Her Sorrows

Celia Sigmon: Crestwood Summit

Paul A. Szymanski: To The Young, Dead Composers

Matthew Villaluz: The Tree

Joyce Nower: This Might Have Ben Eden

Michelle Monson: Bedroom

Stephen Kopel: beta carotene

John Myers: Desperate Solutions

Danielle Moniz: The Hallway

Jenny Minniti-Shippey: Discovery

Loch David Crane: Bike To Work Day

Claudia Poquoc: The Tamarisk Tree

Roger Funston: Now I Remember

Iolanda Scripca: We Need The Dreaded Autumn

Elizabeth Yahn Williams: Perusing The Parrot

Wanda Jackson: The Wedding Dress

Regina Morin: Calendar

Janet A. Baker: Sunflowers

Nicole Leon: Autumn, Strawberry

Dan Adams: Obsolete

Jihmye Collins: Internet Isolation FaceBooking My Space

Michael S. Horvitz: North Park, North Park, Body Of Verse

Special Bilingual Section

Nuestras Fluidas Fronteras De Poesía

Amidst Our Fluid Borders Of Poetry

Teresa González-Lee: Hermano De Los Poetas, Poetry’s Fraternal Voice

Jon Wesick:Casa De Neruda, Neruda’s House — translators: Lauren Wellman and Teresa González Lee

Connee Davis: Volcán Antuco, Antuco Volcano — translator: Teresa González-Lee

Sonia Guitérrez:Del Machete A La Pala, From The Machete To The Shovel

Olga García: Trece A Los Trece, Thirteen At Thirteen

Tomás Lucero: Muerte En El Campo De México, Death In Rural Mexico — translator: Edith Jonsson-Devillers

Francisco J. Bustos Se Llevaron A Mis Primos, They Took Away My Cousins

Edith Jonsson-Devilleurs: Puesta De Sol En El Pacífico, Sunset Over The Pacific

Vicky Nizri: Canta El Verano, Summer Sings — translator: Megan Webster

Sergio Ochoa: Relaciónes, Relationships

Olivia Ruiz: Nos Despedíamos, We Were Saying Farewell

Jose Lobo: Jinetes Azules, Blue Riders — translators: Brandon Cesmat and Teresa González-Lee

Marion Foerster: Cambios, Changes — translator: Edith Jonsson-Devillers

Yvonne Arballo: Éxtasis, Wet Words