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week of 7/6/09:

Anderson coverJack Anderson's Getting Lost in a City Like This
3_5_2_2

Amadon spy cover Samuel Amadon's Spy Poem8stars





week of 6/22/09:

Simonsen cover Kyle Simonsen's wing'd
2stars
Baus cover Eric Baus's Tuned Droves
6_5stars_6
Chernoff cover Maxine Chernoff's The Turning and Arda Collins's It Is Daylight

7stars_9
Arda collins cover 7stars_9


week of 6/15/09:

Andrews cover Nin Andrews's Sleeping With Houdini
7_5stars_2
Raoult cover Thibault Raoult's El P.E.

7stars_9

Darst cover Lightsey Darst's Ginnungagap

6stars_7


week of 6/8/09:

Marks cover Justin Marks's A Million in Prizes and Voir Dire
6_5stars_6 

Simonds cover Sandra Simonds's Warsaw Bikini
5stars_10

Pavlic cover Ed Pavlic's Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: a Song for Donny Hathaway

9stars_6_2


week of 6/1/09:

Sweeney blaze cover Chad Sweeney's Arranging the Blaze
7_5stars_2

Miller props cover Wayne Miller's The Book of Props

9stars_6_2

Shea cover James Shea's Star in the Eye

7stars_9


week of 5/25/09:

Rooney oneiromance cover Kathleen Rooney's Oneiromance (an Epithalamion)
5_5stars
Newton cover Keith Newton's Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City
6_5stars_6
Cote coverCharles Coté's Flying for the Window
6_5stars_6

week of 5/18/09:


Gunn selected cover Thom Gunn's Selected Poems (edited by August Kleinzahler)

7_5stars_2
Phillips speak low cover Carl Phillips's Speak Low8stars

week of 5/4/09:


Walker coverCody Walker's Shuffle and Breakdown
6_5stars_6
Carr cover Richard Carr's Ace
3_5_2_2

week of 4/27/09:


Giampetro cover Frank Giampietro's Begin Anywhere
5_5stars
Fire cover Andrea Hollander Budy edits When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women

7_5stars_2

week of 4/20/09:


England cover Amy England's Victory and Her Opposites: A Guide 4_5stars_3
Raz cover thumbHilda Raz's All Odd and Splendid
6_5stars_6
Schmidt coverChristopher Schmidt's The Next in Line

7stars_9

week of 4/13/09:


Marshall cover Tod Marshall's The Tangled Line
6_5stars_6
Berg cover Aase Berg's With Deer (translation by Johannes Göransson)
8_5stars_2

week of 4/6/09:


Ga cover Ellie Ga's Classification of a Spit Stain

7_5stars_2
Cappello cover Katie Cappello's Perpetual Care

7_5stars_2

week of 3/30/09:


Dickman michael cover Michael Dickman's The End of the West

7stars_9
Dickman matthew cover Matthew Dickman's All-American Poem
5stars_10

week of 3/16/09:

Kwasny coverMelissa Kwasny's Reading Novalis in Montana 7_5stars_2

week of 3/9/09:

Roberts-somethingAndrew Michael Roberts's Something Has to Happen Next

7stars_9
Mann coverRandall Mann's Breakfast With Thom Gunn 7_5stars_2

week of 3/2/09:

Shaughnessy dark coverBrenda Shaughnessy's Human Dark With Sugar
8_5stars_2
Parish_KrewesMicah Ballard's Parish Krewes
7_5stars_2
Waldrep coverG.C. Waldrep's Archicembalo8stars

week of 2/23/09:

Field coverFarrah Field's Rising
7_5stars_2

week of 2/9/09:

Starkweather cover Sampson Starkweather's City of Moths7stars_9

Issue 1 cover Gregory Laynor and Stephen McLaughlin's Issue 13stars_3_2

 

 

 

 

week of 2/2/09:

Valentine lucy coverJean Valentine's Lucy7stars_9

week of 1/26/09:

Bogen cover Deborah Bogen's Landscape With Silos
7_5stars_2
Warn cover Emily Warn's Shadow Architect
4_stars

week of 1/19/09:

Young cover Kevin Young's Dear Darkness
7_5stars_2

week of 1/12/09:

Gamalinda cover Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare
7_5stars_2
Tate coverJames Tate's The Ghost Soldiers
8_5stars_2
Kennedy cover Sarah Kennedy's A Witch's Dictionary
5stars_10

week of 1/5/09:

Merwin coverW.S. Merwin's The Shadow of Sirius
9stars_6_2

week of 12/8/08:

Haddad cover Joumana Haddad's Invitation to a Secret Feast
3stars_3_2
Hauge coverOlav H. Hauge's The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems7stars_9

week of 12/1/08:

Burrell coverGarrett Burrell's The Plague Doctor
7_5stars_2
Blackburn coverCarlos Blackburn's The Selected Poems of Hamster
4_stars

week of 11/24/08:

Waldrep coverG.C. Waldrep's One Way No Exit
6_5stars_6
Lin coverTao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy7stars_9

week of 11/17/08:

Doty coverMark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
7_5stars_2
Smith cover Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler7stars_9
Bidart cover Frank Bidart's Watching the Spring Festival
9stars_6_2
Howard without cover Richard Howard's Without Saying8stars

week of 11/10/08:

Myles cover Eileen Myles's Sorry, Tree
7_5stars_2
Doxsee coverJulie Doxsee's Undersleep7stars_9

week of 11/3/08:

Shippy cover Peter Jay Shippy's How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic7stars_9
ObamaBarack Obama published a poem in his high school's literary journal that concluded with lines about walking "a straight line in a crooked world." Happy Election Day.
Union cover Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder's State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems8stars

week of 10/27/08:

Vitiello cover Chris Vitiello's Irresponsibility8stars
Collins ballistics cover Billy Collins's Ballistics
5_5stars

 

week of 10/20/08:

Leo_coverTeresa Leo's The Halo Rule
6_5stars_6
Buchanan_cover_2 Oni Buchanan's Spring
4_stars

week of 10/13/08:

Gibbons_cover_2 Reginald Gibbons's Creatures of a Day 4_5stars_3
Homan_cover_3 Brandi Homan's Hard Reds7stars_9

week of 10/6/08:

Neruda_hands_cover_3 Pablo Neruda's The Hands of Day
5stars_10
Simic_sixty_cover Charles Simic's Sixty Poems
6_5stars_6

week of 9/30/08:

Reines_lion_cover_3 Ariana Reines's Coeur de Lion7stars_9
Kaplan_cover Dan Kaplan's Bill's Formal Complaint
5_5stars

week of 9/15/08:

Shepard_cover_2 Neil Shepard's This Far from the Source8stars
Merwin_ballads_cover_4W.S. Merwin's Spanish Ballads7stars_9
Shapiro_alan_cover_2 Alan Shapiro's Old War7stars_9

week of 9/8/08:

Hix_god_bless_cover H.L. Hix's God Bless
3_5_2_2
Billbook75Bill Rector's Bill
6stars_7
Cirelli_cover Michael Cirelli's Lobster With Ol' Dirty Bastard
9stars_6_2

week of 9/1/08:

Martin_cover Carl R. Martin's Rogue Hemlocks8stars
Stone_cover Ruth Stone's What Love Comes To
7_5stars_2
Todd_cover Cody Todd's To Frankenstein, My Father
3_5_2_2

week of 8/25/08:

Grossman_cover_2 Allen Grossman's Descartes' Loneliness
6_5stars_6

week of 8/18/08:

Shore_cover_2 Jane Shore's A Yes-or-No Answer
2stars
Violi_cover Paul Violi's Overnight
9stars_6_2

week of 8/11/08:

Gustafsson_cover_2 Lars Gustafsson's A Time in Xanadu
6stars_7

week of 7/21/08:

Gabbert_rooney_cover_3 Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney's That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness
8stars
Tichy_cover Susan Tichy's Bone Pagoda
5stars_10
Alsop_cover_2 Maureen Alsop's Apparition Wren 4_5stars_3

week of 7/14/08:

Sweeney_cover_2Chad Sweeney's An Architecture
7_5stars_2
Woloch_cover_2 Cecilia Woloch's Narcissus 4_5stars_3
Matthews_superfecta_2 Clay Matthews's Superfecta
5stars_10

week of 7/7/08:

Langley_cover Matthew Langley's Letters Toward Jim7stars_9
Mcdaniel_cover Jeffrey McDaniel's The Endarkenment
7_5stars_2
Beatty_cover_2 Jan Beatty's Red Sugar
3_5_2_2

week of 6/30/08:

Allport_cover_3 Andrew Allport's The Ice Ship & Other Vessels
5stars_10

week of 6/23/08:

Hanusa_cover_2 Erin Hanusa's The House of Marriage
5_5stars
Knox_cover_2 Caroline Knox's Quaker Guns
5_5stars

week of 6/16/08:

Galvindo_the_math_2 Emily Galvin's Do the Math        Forms7stars_9

week of 6/2/08:

Pietrzykowski_cover_2 Marc Pietrzykowski's ...and the whole time I was quite happy. 7stars_9
Pritts_cover_2 Nate Pritts's Sensational Spectacular
7_5stars_2
Pafunda_zorba_cover_4 Danielle Pafunda's My Zorba
7_5stars_2

week of 5/26/08:

Ruefle_most_cover_2 Mary Ruefle's The Most of It
8stars

week of 5/19/08:

Sharkey_cover_2 Lee Sharkey's A Darker, Sweeter String
7_5stars_2
Lux_cover_2Thomas Lux's God Particles
6stars_7

week of 5/12/08:

Adcock_cover Betty Adcock's Slantwise 7stars_9

week of 5/5/08:

Knorr_cover_2 Jeff Knorr's The Third Body 7stars_9
Van_doren_cover_3 Sally Van Doren's Sex at Noon Taxes
5stars_10
Towle_cover_2 Tony Towle's Winter Journey
9stars_6_2

week of 4/28/08:

Mullen_cover_2 Laura Mullen's Murmur
8stars
Hawley_cover_2 Anthony Hawley's Forget Reading
6_5stars_6
Lee_liyoung_cover_2 Li-Young Lee's Behind My Eyes
7_5stars_2

week of 4/21/08:

Mesmer_cover_3Sharon Mesmer's The Virgin Formica
6stars_7
Courter_cover_3 Justin Courter's The Death of the Poem and Other Paragraphs
5_5stars
Sugarman_cover_2Yerra Sugarman's The Bag of Broken Glass
5stars_10

week of 4/14/08:

Dennigancorinna_2Darcie Dennigan's Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse
8_5stars_2
Kelikowske_cover_2Elizabeth Kerlikowske's Dominant Hand
6_5stars_6
Williams_cover_2Tyrone Williams's On Spec
4_stars

week of 4/7/08:

Mort_cover Valzhyna Mort's Factory of Tears
3stars_3_2
Rogoff_cover_3Jay Rogoff's The Long Fault
3_5_2_2
Pupek_cover_2Jayne Pupek's Forms of Intercession
7_5stars_2

week of 3/31/08:

Byrne_masque_cover_2Elena Karina Byrne's Masque
4_stars
Cox_cover_2 Sarah Anne Cox's Parcel
6_5stars_6
Notley_cover_3Alice Notley's In the Pines
7_5stars_2

week of 3/24/08:

Octopus_logo_4Octopus #8 Chapbook Series
8stars
Amirthan_cover_2Indran Amirthanayagam's The Splintered Face Tsunami Poems
6stars_7
Cramertongue_and_groove_cover_2 Stephen Cramer's Tongue and Groove
7_5stars_2

week of 3/17/08:

Elaine Sexton's Causeway
Lisa Olstein's Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
Dean Young's Primitive Mentor

week of 3/10/08:

Sawako Nakayasu edits Four From Japan
Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land
Art Goodtimes's As if the World Really Mattered

week of 3/3/08:

David Shumate's The Floating Bridge
Wayne Miller's Only the Senses Sleep
Jill Magi's Threads


week of 2/25/08:

Julia Hartwig's In Praise of the Unfinished
Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Figures for a Darkroom Voice
Jennifer Firestone's Holiday


week of 2/18/08:

Shanna Compton's For Girls (& Others)
Paul Scheerbart's The Development of Aerial Militarism (trans. M. Kasper)
Michael Kelleher's Human Scale


week of 2/11/08:

Ander Monson's Our Aperture
Christopher Patton's Ox
Cate Marvin's Fragment of the Head of a Queen




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