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Excerpts [in printable Adobe Acrobat format] Bill Morgan     Among Goldfinches The Spoon River Poetry Review Illinois Poet: Allison Joseph     Poeticizing the (Popular) Culture:     A Discussion with Allison Joseph     and Searching For Melinda's Magic Moment The 1998 Editors' Prize Contest Winners First Place: Mary Makofske     An Inward Bruise Runner Up: Jeff Halbert     The Silver Surfer

 

Contents

Paul Keller, California

    Blind Man's House

    Let Me Tell You

Michelle Byrne, Michigan

    Blood Relatives

    Questions for Einstein

Todd Fuller, Oklahoma

    The Sweathogs Meet Charlie's Angels Behind TheShed

Carol Dine, Massachusetts

    Ice

Manju Kanchuli, Nepal

  trans. Wayne Amtzis, Nepal

    Days In The Life

Brook Holmes, Washington

    The Death Mask Of Egon Schiele

    The Line

Sheryl St. Germain, Illinois

    Poinsettia

    Love Poem

Ruba Nadda, Canada

    My Daddy's Shakin Something Awful

Dinu Adam, Romania

  trans. Adam J. Sorkin, Pennsylvania

    Photograph at Nightfall

    Interior With Forest, Autumn

Donna Turner, North Dakota

    Crying

Glen Mazis, Pennsylvania

    On This Path Of Transubstantiation

    Restored Silk Mill Apartment

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Amy Scattergood, California

    Porvenir

    Brodsky In Exile

Martin Walls, Indiana

    Dusk, Scircleville

    Tippecanoe River

Ted Lord, Washington

    Gladioli

Edward Bartók-Baratta, Massachusetts

    In Laura's Studio

Amir Or, Israel

  trans. Tsipi Keller, New York

    From The White Dictionary

Bill Morgan, Illinois

    Among Goldfinches

The Spoon River Poetry Review Illinois Poet: Allison Joseph

 

Poeticizing the (Popular) Culture:

  A Discussion With Allison Joseph

Searching For Melinda's Magic Moment

Wonderama

Reading Room

Birth Of A Nation

Role Models

Given Names

Flirtation

Accidents Will Happen: My Date With Elvis, 1977

On Viewing Two Different Date Rape Movies

What Women Want

Richard Fammerée, Indiana

    The Smell Of French Books

Jeanne Wagner, California

    Seeds

Karen Themstrup, Pennsylvania

    Contract

    What I Left Out

Henry Michaux

  trans. Stuart J. Silverman, Illinois

    The Young Girl From Budapest

Stuart J. Silverman, Illinois

    Two Epigrams, adapted from Voznesensky

Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spain

  trans. Stuart J. Silverman, Illinois

    Preciosa And The Wind

Mark Mitchell, Illinois

    The Rest Of The Way

    Night Blooming Cactus

Terry Hauptman, Minnesota

    Exquisite Corps

The 1998 Editors' Prize Contest Winners

First Place: Mary Makofske, New York

     An Inward Bruise

Runner Up: Ann Beckerman, New York

     The Woman Who Flew

Runner Up: Jeff Halbert, Maryland

     The Silver Surfer

Honorable Mention: Susanna Lang, Illinois

      Gould's Art Of The Fugue

Jeff Gundy, Ohio

    Laurel River

John Thelin, Colorado

    Tam Lin In Reverse

Kay Murphy, Louisiana

    Forgiveness

    I Have Lived On Until Now As If

    A Natural History Of Tears

Martha Modena Vertreace, Illinois

    November

    Mother-In-Law's Tongue

Polly Brody, Connecticut

    Nurse Logs

    Four Seasons

Joseph Chaney, Indiana

    The Archives Of My Childhood

Glenna Holloway, Illinois

    Balladeers By Night

Robert Funge, California

    Stafford's Way

    Poem For Ignatow

Bill Rector, Colorado

    The Patient Is Near

    Rounds

Barbara Lau, Iowa

    Body Of Dark Sparks

Michael O'Siadhail, Ireland

    Hale-Bopp

Ann Keniston, Massachusetts

    In My First Memory

    Plenitude

Jane Blue, California

    Traveling Exhibition

April Ossmann, Vermont

    Forms Of Fire

Richard Newman, Missouri

    Highway Sounds

    Phantoms

Susan Landgraf, Washington

    Wing

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Nin Andrews, Ohio

    About Childhood

    Making Love To Houdini

    The Hair Cut

Julianna Baggott, Delaware

    Preschool1

Rita Kiefer, Colorado

    Prophecy

Review Essay

B.J. McGrath, Illinois

    Tracking Nature