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Winter/Spring 2005

[Volume XXX, Number 1]

 

Excerpts

[in printable Adobe Acrobat format]

 

The SRPR Illinois Poet: Rachel Contreni Flynn

Interview

 

Janis Greve, Massachusetts

Woman in a Rose Hat

 

Jason Lee Brown, Illinois

Daily Routines

 

Mary Ann Hudson, Washington

The dog considers

 

Cyril Wong, Singapore

Caving In, White, Salted Flesh

 

 

Contents:

 

David Lazar, Ohio

And Testament

Last Night I Dreamed

 

Karin Gottshall, Vermont

A Fable

Vespertine

 

Lesley Wheeler, Virginia

The Problem with Personal Expression

The Legend of the DevilÕs Darning Needle

Concerning the Liver Bird

 

Judy Kronenfeld, California

Bronx-Gemeinschaft-Street-Hush Memory

 

Jeffery Bahr, Colorado

Poem That Begins with an Excerpt from Bertrand RussellÕs Biography and Proceeds to Paradox

Dinosaurs

Do the Math

 

Janis Greve, Massachusetts

Woman in a Rose Hat

 

Jennifer Tseng, California

Tender

For Maria who asked me to write her a poem in which she is young

Red Handkerchief

 

Jason Lee Brown, Illinois

Daily Routines

 

M. A. Schaffner, Virginia

At the Museum of Natural History

News of Lost Tribes

 

The SRPR Illinois Poet: Rachel Contreni Flynn

A Discussion with Rachel Contreni Flynn

Fine

Dead Center

Haywire

Rolling

Heat Rising

Three Trees

Full-Time Permanent

Still Slipping

Grace

Tethered

 

Loren Graham, Montana

Estranged

The Trance

Imaginary Conversations

 

Kelly D. Whiddon, Georgia

Refrigerator Note

 

Mary Ann Hudson, Washington

The dog considers

Howl

 

Larry Starzec, Illinois

Bleeding Ulcer

 

Erika Mikkalo, Illinois

Squid Introduced

 

Susan Terris, California

Fish of Her Dreams

Rhino in the Bedroom

The Ghoul on the Bench: Workshop at M.I.T.

 

Georgia Scott, Poland

The Mothers-In-Law from Minsk

There Are Worse Things Than This

 

Faith Shearin, Maryland

Sixth Sense

Preschool

 

Ginny Grimsley, Florida

First Frog

 

Margaret Benbow, Wisconsin

The Opera Pen

PeterÕs Thoughts at Firelight

 

Maria Terrone, New York

Reverie on a Train

Breaking the Code

 

Martin Walls, New York

Cycling

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

 

Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody, Illinois

Nothing to Relate but a Dream (1824)

 

Charlotte Pence, Tennessee

Love in the Form of a DeWALT Screw Gun

Grief

 

Jeff Mann, Virginia

The Men of Taco Bell

Civilization Comes to Summers County

Bereft

 

S‡ndor K‡ny‡di, Romania

Trans. Paul Sohar, New Jersey

They Take Off

I Confess

 

Nina Corwin, Illinois

The Question

 

Pamela Gemin, Wisconsin

April

Room-Darkening Shades

 

Bill Rector, Colorado

Before the Colonoscopy

Before

 

Cyril Wong, Singapore

Friends

Caving In, White, Salted Flesh

 

Kathleen Spivack, Massachusetts

Open Studio: Landscape Paintings

 

Joel Long, Utah

The Assumption of the Virgin

Wooden Things

 

Charlotte Matthews, Virginia

In the Other Room My Daughter Plays with Her Dollhouse

 

George Kalamaras, Illinois

In Distant Lands

Wang Wei Board Game

 

Jim Daniels, Pennsylvania

Gas for the Grill, Memorial Day

 

Jessica Jopp, Pennsylvania

GriefÕs Plow

Emily Dickinson Looks Through the Hubble Telescope

 

Shushan Avagyan, Armenia and Illinois

No Exit

 

Susan Snively, Massachusetts

Louisville Trees

 

Marcel Gauthier, South Carolina

Fibromyalgia Takes a Brandy

Inventor of the Puzzle

 

E. Louise Beach, Maryland

Like Nothing in the World

Hubble

 

Crystal Williams, Oregon

Deceit

 

Ann Keniston, Nevada

Her Illness in Me

Lust

Autobiographical Poem