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Summer/Fall 2003
[Volume XXVIII, Number 2]
Excerpts
[in printable Adobe Acrobat format]
The 2003 Editors’ Prize Contest Winners
First Place: Melissa Stein, California
(How to Fall from) Grace
Runner-up: David Keplinger, Colorado
More Entries from the Notebook of Anton Chekhov
Runner-up: Moira Magneson, California
Confession
Honorable Mention: David Keplinger, Colorado
Lorca’s Passport
Honorable Mention: Bernard Gershenson, California
Salgado’s Photos
Honorable Mention: Aaron Kellerstrass, Arizona
Skeleton Song
Honorable Mention: Tamara Kaye Sellman, Washington
Making Paneer
Honorable Mention: Ada Limón, New York
The Echo Sounder
Honorable Mention: Josie Sigler, Maine
Gardenia
The SRPR Illinois Poet: David Bond
Language Refresher—
A Discussion with David Bond
Disquieting Muses
Calendar of Saints
Pastoral
At the Wellness Center
Snake Poem
Monhegan Island
Visit to 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida
Largest Tract of Hardwood in America 7
My Wife as Lighthouse Keeper
Karen Craigo, Ohio
In Praise of the Body Broken in Two
Stefi Weisburd, New Mexico
Kadosh, Holy
Birth, Death, and In Between, Guava Juice
Diane Gilliam Fisher, Ohio
Crescendo, Decrescendo
Sixty-five Roses
How I Decided Not to Write a Sestina about Cystic Fibrosis
CF Clinic, Children’s Hospital
Kay Murphy, Louisiana
The Temple of the Tooth
Good Friday in the Dead Land
Black
Yi Yon-ju, South Korea
Trans. Don Mee Choi, Washington
La La La, There Is No Way of Knowing
A Tiresome Dialog
For Kanamycin
Contents
Stefi Weisburd, New Mexico
Kadosh, Holy
Birth, Death, and In Between, Guava Juice
Catherine Esposito-Prescott, Florida
Ghazal
Diane Gilliam Fisher, Ohio
Crescendo, Decrescendo
Sixty-five Roses
How I Decided Not to Write a Sestina about Cystic Fibrosis
CF Clinic, Children’s Hospital
Robert McNamara, Washington
A Pastoral
On the Death of a Friend’s Daughter, Age 20
Melissa Peters, New York
Hurricane Ridge
Toll Free Number
Grace Marie Grafton, California
We Want What We Want
Charles Harper Webb, California
As If My Own Life Isn’t Moving Fast Enough, I Have a Son
According to the Doctor’s Theory
Susanna Mishler, Arizona
The Borracho Tree
Western Banded Geckos
Lacy Schutz, California
What’s a Sweetheart
Marilyn Krysl, Colorado
Goya’s Fight with Cudgels
Kay Murphy, Louisiana
The Temple of the Tooth
Good Friday in the Dead Land
Black
Reid Bush, Kentucky
Our Burglar
Foreign Idyll
Alexios Antypas, Hungary
New Country
Going Home
The SRPR Illinois Poet: David Bond
Language Refresher—
A Discussion with David Bond
Disquieting Muses
Calendar of Saints
Pastoral
At the Wellness Center
Snake Poem
Monhegan Island
Visit to 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida
Largest Tract of Hardwood in America 7
My Wife as Lighthouse Keeper
Pamela Garvey, Missouri
No Less in Blood
Dana Roeser, Indiana
His Hands Like Warm Earth
Charlotte Matthews, Virginia
Augury
Anna Leahy, Illinois
Saying Prayers
Bob King, Ohio
Nine Weeks In
M. Bennet Smith, Oregon
To Inhabit the Earth: Baptizing
Simon Perchik, New York
Untitled
Amanda B. Kimball, Delaware
Anniversary Gift
Rachel Contreni Flynn, Illinois
Daughters
Randy Blythe, Alabama
The Trouble with Prophecy
Appointed
Marlys West, New Jersey
The Absinthe of Trousers
Barry Ballard, Texas
Divining
The Only Road Out
William Doreski, New Hampshire
Seeing You on Newbury Street
Dead Poets
Paul Hostovsky, Massachusetts
Speaking Up
Man in the Men’s Room, Praying
Elena Georgiou, New York
Born out of Lyric
Vera Kroms, Massachusetts
The Pears of Budapest
The Doorbell
At the War Crimes Museum, Saigon
Karen Carissimo, California
Mother with Child
The Waiting Room
The 2003 Editors’ Prize Contest Winners
First Place: Melissa Stein, California
(How to Fall from) Grace
Runner-up: David Keplinger, Colorado
More Entries from the Notebook of Anton Chekhov
Runner-up: Moira Magneson, California
Confession
Honorable Mention: David Keplinger, Colorado
Lorca’s Passport
Honorable Mention: Bernard Gershenson, California
Salgado’s Photos
Honorable Mention: Aaron Kellerstrass, Arizona
Skeleton Song
Honorable Mention: Tamara Kaye Sellman, Washington
Making Paneer
Honorable Mention: Ada Limón, New York
The Echo Sounder
Honorable Mention: Josie Sigler, Maine
Gardenia
Steven Barza, Virginia
Ceremony
Eric Anderson, Ohio
My Time Being Famous
Under the Willow in My Parent’s Front Yard, I Look
across the Street to the Place Where a Man Died on
Rt. 58 in Oberlin
Yi Yon-ju, South Korea
Trans. Don Mee Choi, Washington
La La La, There Is No Way of Knowing
A Tiresome Dialog
For Kanamycin
Susan Terris, California
Steep Trail to the Acropolis
Jody Winer-Cook, New York
Accident
Ava M. Hu, New York
Five Daisies
Karen Craigo, Ohio
In Praise of the Body Broken in Two