(Click on links to poems, essays & reviews below.)
Editors' Note
"Luck of the Draw" Poems
Guest Edited by Shoshauna Shy, Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf
F.J. Bergmann, Power Tools
Shirley Brewer, Fortune Cookies
No Shoulder and Other Positive Signs
Carol Carpenter, The Nature of Vipers
Martha Christina, Marked
Jan Chronister, Burning Permit
All Walt Disney's Fault
Barbara Crooker, Surfeit
Heidi Kristine Czerwiec, Star Shell
Julie Damerell, Why Perfectly Green Leaves Change Color and Fall
Max Garland, Mega-Foods
James Gurley, Jelly Roll Way Out West
Lois Marie Harrod, Insomnia for Another Season
Reckless
John Johnson, Everyone's a Winner
Kit Kennedy, Not Necessarily
Rediscovered, Your Postcard
Peg Lauber, Adoption
Lyn Lifshin, My Mother and the Lilacs
dawn lonsinger, Horror Flick (a hard kiss)
Alison Luterman, Manifesto
Janet McCann, Japanese Divorce Party
Ken Pobo, Dindi Says Hang Luck!
Margaret Rozga, Love
Hal Sirowitz, The Tall Have It Made
Sandy Stark, Cold Front
Jeanie Tomasko, Plate 345 Seaside Sparrow
You've Always Known
Theresa Welford, The Death of, Like, a Ball-Turret Gunner
Online Features
- Interview with Denise Duhamel, by Karla Huston
- My Barefoot Rank, by David Graham
- Jessica Nelson North: Recalling The Reaches Of Silence And Sound, by LaMoine MacLaughlin
- Four Musicpoems, with Commentary, by Ron Riekki & Dan Wrzesinski
- Why Being an Obscure Poet Isn’t Such a Bad Life After All & Ten Ways of Knowing Your Poetic Sun is Setting, by Charles P. Ries
- Poetic Justice: Books for Troubled Times, A Review-Essay, by Wendy Vardaman on Kimberly Blaeser, Martín Espada, Fabu, Daniel Khalastchi, Margaret Rozga, & Chuck Rybak
Wisconsin Poetry News
- StreetcART: Poetry on Kenosha's Street Cars
- Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Adopts State Poet Laureate
Book Reviews
- B.J. Best, Birds of Wisconsin, New Rivers Press , 2011 by Amanda Brzenk
- Sue Chenette, Slender Human Weight, Guernica Editions, 2009 by Lou Roach
- Karl Elder, The Houdini Monologues, Seems 43 – 44 / Word of Mouth Books 2010, by Michael Kriesel
- Joseph Farley, Looking for the Mother Tongue, March Street Press, 2010 by Karla Huston
- Ann Fisher-Wirth, Carta Marina, Wings Press, 2009 by Moira Richards
- Barbara L. Greenberg, Late Life Happiness, Parallel Press, 2010 by Lou Roach
- Miriam Hall, Dreams of Movement, Finishing Line Press, 2010, by Russell Gardner, Jr.
- Derrick Harriell, Cotton, Willow/Aquarius Books, 2010 by Sarah Busse
- Terrance Hayes, Lighthead, 2010 by Fabu
- James P. Lenfestey(ed.), Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems About Pigs, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010 by Athena Kildegaard
- Dimitris Lyacos, trans. by Shorsha Sullivan, Poena Damni Z213: Exit, Shoestring Press, 2010,
Two Reviews: by Manos Georginis and by Judith Swann - Shane McCrae, In Canaan, Rescue Press, 2010 by Lisa Vihos
- Berwyn Moore, O Body Swayed, Cherry Grove Collections, 2009 by Sherry Chandler
- Cristina M.R. Norcross, Unsung Love Songs, 2009 by Kathleen Serley
- Alicia Suskin Ostriker, The Book of Seventy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009 by Moira Richards
- Stephen Roger Powers, The Follower’s Tale, Salmon Poetry, 2009 by Russell Gardner, Jr.
- Liz Rhodebeck, What I Learned in Kansas, Port Yonder Press, 2010 by Elmae Passineau
- Thomas R. Smith, The Foot of the Rainbow, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010 by Ralph Murre
- Alex Stolis, Li Po Comes to America, Parallel Press, 2010 by Lisa Vihos
- Joyce Sutphen, First Words, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010 by Barbara Crooker
- Timothy Young, Herds of Bears Surround Us, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010 by Judith Swann
& Books Noted—Brief Reviews of Bart Galle, Everything Is True at Once; Kenneth P. Gurney, Fluid Shape of an Empty Womb; Deborah Jackman-Wilson, Walking Between The Raindrops; Richard Kovac, Untitled, Poems; Mokasiya, The Shamans’ Dream; Georgia Ressmeyer, Today I Threw My Watch Away; Robert Sonkowsky, Unsound Science; Diana Woodcock, In the Shade of the Sidra Tree.
