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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Editors’ Prizes
Contributors
Gabe Adoff – Singing
Kelli Russell Agodon – Between the Covers We Find Jesus
Jeannette Allée - Lucifer Cleared His Goatish Throat – poem (PDF); Hard Pew; The Earld Rotundis, ca. 1888
Victoria Anderson – Letter to Chiapas , II
Tani Arness – The Day
Lana Hechtman Ayers – The Paradox of Life and Religion
Sandra Beasley – The Fish
Carol Berg - Make Believe
Catherine Black – Hummingbird Incarnation
Victoria Boynton – Quitting 2
Ronda Broatch – Inishmór Goats
Cathy Carlisi – Remember Me?
Lynne Yu-Ling Chien – f(x) = xy – 1
Tom Christopher – [The oldest man glides across the floor,]
Ewa Chrušciel – Annunciation VIII
Cynie Cory - I Can’t Stay in Here and I Can’t Stay in Here, Ain’t It Clear?
James Cushing – The Children’s Hour (1963)
Renée D’Aoust – Pearl Street
John Matt Dorn – Ex-Parte
Wendy Drexler – After Visiting the Memorial to Your Grandparents Who Died at Thieresienstadt
Thomas Dukes – Etudes for El Paso and Spanish Guitar – poem (PDF)
Edison Dupree – Recess
D.M. Ferguson – Standing by a Tree, Early Spring and Aubade
Jennifer Finstrom – Minotaur
Geoffrey Forsyth – Coins
Elizabeth Graettinger – Early a morning turned afternoon into a nightmare
James Grinwis – A Rattle is Another Kind of Idiophone
Kelle Groom – Sugar Mountain
Mark Halperin – Chimera
Renee Lynn Hansen – The Drought Just Then
Rebecca Hazelton – The Earth Doesn’t Mind
Kathleen Hellen – Babylon I
Jannett Highfill – Baedeker
Mary Crockett Hill – A Theory of Everything
Taj Jackson – Another plutonic bloom
Bonnie Jacobson – excerpts from The Book of Jars: Jar #36
Jeff Jarosch – Color and ice
Allan Johnston – Childhood Near Hollywood
R. Kimm – Who gets it?
Elizabeth Knapp – On Running Into Jorie Graham in a Bathroom Stall at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles , or the Poem I Always Wanted to Write About Antigone
David Koehn – Spurge
Douglas Korb – The Sky Is What I Say It Is
Daniel Langton – On Seeing My Poems in Chinese
Mercedes Lawry – A Painting Told Me This
Paul Legault – Final Palindrome
Chip Livingston – Crepi il Lupo
Taylor Loy – Boris the Manskinner
David Lunde – Dear Vince,
Scott MacPhail – Fair
Christopher Malpass – Origin Stories
Jack Martin – Into Space
Patricia McMillen – Gristle
Jalina Mhyana – Hina Matsuri
Steve Mueske – My Life as a Kung Fu Movie
Matthew Murrey – Flying Shamans
Jason Olsen – Fire Engine Descending a Staircase
Lynn Pattison Deep Winter
James Piiparinen – Silver Containers
Dan Pinkerton – Us Against Them and Father Knows Best
Julie Platt – The Finwife is Dismissed and Eulalia of Meridia
Alison Powell – The Request
Claudia Putnam – Navarre
Emma Ramey – Servant; Samurai, For Easter
Josh Rathkamp – Eclipse
John Repp - No Away – poem (PDF)
Andrew Michael Roberts – People Running from a Bus
Natania Rosenfeld – Instruments
Sankar Roy – The Fear of the Bride
F. Daniel Rzicznek – Loose Pages, Found in a Field
Miriam Sagan – Tefillah
Andrea Scarpino – The Grove Behind and Afire
Mather Schneider – Copperhead
Joan I. Siegel – Pablo Picasso: Child with a Pigeon (1901) and On a Friend’s Suicide in the Pennsylvania Woods
Martha Silano - After Reading There Might Be an Infinite Number of Dimensions
Rebekah Silverman – Even Now
Clara Silverstein - Family Photo at Maymont Park
Matthew Sisson - Thumb Sucking, A Quick Chat With My Boss
Erin Elizabeth Smith – The Middle Ground and Divorce
Mark Smith – The Barge “Captain”
John Struloeff - And Then There’s Marvin
Chad Sweeney – The Methodist and His Method and Red Stripe in the Mirror
Molly Tenenbaum – My Binge
Jamie Thomas – Towing Water to Australia
Meg Thompson – Walking Home At Night Through a Residential Area
Susan Varnot – Memento Mori
David Wagoner – Crane Fly
Allen West – Spring
Nancy White – Girl Who Liked Doors
Lance Wilcox – The Webcam on Yr Wyddfa
Vivienne Woodhead – Thunder, 1954
Translations
Mario Benedetti – Wet Paper
translated by Nicolas Mansito III
Gastão Cruz – The Spoon
translated by Alexis Levitin
Lorand Gaspar – [still in the wind – ]
translated by Daniela Hurezanu and Stephen Kessler
Ericka Ghersi – Among Lanterns
translated by Toshiya Kamei
Li Nan – Eleven Line Poem
translated by Amy Liang and Steven Schroeder
Pablo Henrik Llambías – Horn of Plenty
translated by Ingrid Lansford
Nava Semel – And the Rat Laughs
translated by Miriam Schlesinger excerpts from
RHINO Reads: Reviews of volumes by Kristy Bowen, Steve Davenport, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Kate Greenstreet, Therèse Halscheid, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Patricia McMillen, Martha Silano, Maria Terrone
Books received from RHINO Poets and Friends in 2006
Contributors’ Notes
Donors
READERS=WRITERS Contest
