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TRIBUTES

JOHN DAMON
VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE:
TWELVE STATIONS ON A TOUR OF ETERNITY
AND ONE RECURRING NIGHTMARE

I. THE POET VIRGIL-LESS
II. HITLER IN HELL
III. MARX AND ENGELS IN HEAVEN
IV. POUND IN PURGATORY
V. WHITMAN COME BACK AS A GHOST
VI. THE SECOND REBIRTH
VII. A DISPUTATION IN PARADISE
VIII. LORCA EN EL MÁS ALLÁ
IX. ANNE FRANK ON THE DACHAU TRAIN
X. EMILY IN AMHERST
XI. NERUDA ENTERS ENDLESS NIGHT
XII. THE POET FEASTS IN THE LIGHT
XIII. THE WHITE HOUSE ENTERTAINS ARMAGEDDON

JACK MYERS
INTIMACIES OF CLEANING
MARISCOS
GOING AWAY PARTY
CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
MY TOP TEN LISTS
AUTUMN ON CAPE FEAR

FICTION

BRET LOTT
BIO FOR A PORTRAIT
COLLABORATION: CURT RICHTER PHOTO

JOY CASTRO
THE RIVER

LOLITA HERNANDEZ
MAKING CALLALOO

RYAN ALLEN
PLACE MATTERS

EDUARDO SANTIAGO
The Golden Rings of Paris

FRED ARROYO
FIRST LOVE

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
GIRLS
BULLETPROOF

JASON LEE BROWN
HOGNOSE

DIANE WILSON
THE MEMORY OF HOME

TRAVIS HEDGE COKE
"EACH OF THE FOUR WINGS—"

BRUCE PRATT
MISSING PERSON

BERNICE MCFADDEN
CHAPTER 2 EXCERPT FROM GLORIOUS

EDDIE CHUCULATE
GRANDPA OLD BULL
UNDER THE RED STAR OF MARS

SARA CAMPOS
REQUIEM FOR JIMS

POETRY

LENELLE MOÏSE
HER REMAINS
BECAUSE JOHN DOE IS NOT A
  HAITIAN NAME
HAITI GLASS
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A HEEL

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
AMAISING

WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE
COMPANY MAN
THE ALCHEMIST APPRENTICE

DAVID ALLAN EVANS
DECEMBER SUNRISE, 2010
WINTER DYAD
ON NOT BEING SIX FEET TALL

JOHN HOPPENTHALER
TRACKS
PRAYER
CLOCK TRIOLET

GREG KOSMICKI
RED HAT
MOWING THE BACKYARD
MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER COME TO VISIT
DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY THIS AFTERNOON ON MY JOB

DAVID CHEEZEM
LETTERS FROM LILY

MATT MASON
LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF BELARUS

KWAME DAWES
ROSE
WHAT GOD SAYS
CREEK

KIM ROBERTS
SPRING

MILES WAGGENER
HEADQUARTERS
ELEGIAC BUCKSHOT
SKY HARBOR

LEANNE HOWE
PROSE POEM FOR SANDHILL CRANES

DONNA VORREYER
COMPASS POINTS

M C HYLAND
DIEGETIC

J. J. MCKENNA
COME, TAKE A TURN WITH ME

QUINCY TROUPE
A VISION
WOODEN MOUTHS
MARCH DAY IN GOYAVE, GUADALOUPE
GOYAVE NIGHT SCENE
THOUGHTS ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN GOYAVE, MARCH 25TH, 2007

PEGGY SHUMAKER
CREAMERS FIELD
SPAWN
THE RUN OF SILVERS

SHERWIN BITSUI
FLOOD SONG

JAMES CIHLAR
LINDA

TERRY LEE SCHIFFERNS
DREAMS OF LEAVING

LOLA HASKINS
THE SANDHILL CRANES

CHING-IN CHEN
GUEST

LORENE DELANY-ULLMAN
THREE HISTORIES, MEASURED

KIMBERLY BECKER
MARIPOSA

LEE ANN RORIPAUGH
DEE ASTER
INQUILINE
UNSWALLOWING

GINA FORBERG
SONG

JUDY LORENZEN
VOICES OF SPRING
SILENT COMMUNION
MORNING, JANUARY 1, 2007

CRYSTAL SPRING GIBBINS
TOURING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

JOSEPH POWELL
TIME AFTER TIME

ERIC HEYNE
POWERS MAKING ECHOES
VANCOUVER

PATRICK HICKS
FOR MY INTERNATIONALLY ADOPTED SON

WANG XIAONI
TR. WANG PING AND ALEX LEMON
MORNING
POSITIONS
POETS
WAITING FOR BUS

RICK MARLATT
FATHER, SON, RIVER VALLEY
SEASONAL PRAYER

DON WELCH
TWO FOR THAT MORNING

TED KOOSER
TWO HORSES

LINDA HOGAN
FIRST LANGUAGE
THE SANDHILLS

FREDY CHICANGANA
ESPIRITU DE GRULLA Y ESPRITU QUECHUA
CRANE SPIRIT AND QUECHUA SPIRIT / TR. CRISTINA EISENBERG

CHRISTINA PACOSZ
WHAT DID THE CRANES EAT BEFORE THE PRAIRIE WAS PLOWED?

DIANE GLANCY
THAT WAS NEVER THERE BEFORE
THE TRAIN TRACKS

CAROL MOLDAW
SO LATE, SO SOON

SAM HAMILL
A WORLD WITHOUT WAR?

MATTHEW SHENODA
SONG OF REMEMBRANCE

WANG PING
THIS IS HOW YOU CROSS THE LINE

PATRICK HICKS
FOR MY INTERNATIONALLY ADOPTED SON

JIM REESE
RICH LOFTHUS
DANA DE WITT
COMPOSITION 103: NO SHOES REQUIRED

JIM REESE
SCRAPPERS

CHUCK CALABREZE
FESTIVAL
MEMORANDUM: ADDENDA TO EMPLOYEE MANUAL
MEMORANDUM: ON STUDENT UNREST

LUIS RODRIGUEZ
PERHAPS
FEVERED SHAPES
MACHU PICHU - OR WHAT I
 SHOULD HAVE BECOME WHEN
 THE ANCIENT STONE WALLS
 AND THE CLOUDED HEIGHTS
 NAMED MY BLOOD

VODOUN SONGS COMPILED BY RACHEL BEAUVOIR AND DIDIER DOMINIQUE
TRANSLATED FROM HAITIAN BY BOADIBA AND JACK HIRSCHMAN
FROM SAVALOU E,
OR A WORD TO THE WISE
(IS ENOUGH)
A COUNTRY'S WORD OF HONOR

GEORGES CASTERA
GEORGES CASTER/JOJ KASTRA HAITIAN(CREOLE)
LETTRE D’OCTOBRE
LETTRE D’OCTOBRE
CERTITUDE
CERTITUDE
POLLEN
POLLEN
(TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY FRANÇOISE BELLERICE)
RANKIT
RANQUITTE
(TRADUIT DU CREOLE PAR FRANÇOISE BELLERICE)
PITIT MALERE
L’ENFANT DE LA MISERE
(TRADUIT DU CREOLE PAR FRANÇOISE BELLERICE)
TANBOU KREYOL
TAMBOUR CREOLE
(POEME POUR 4 LEVRES ET 2 PIERRES)
(TRADUIT DU CREOLE PAR FRANÇOISE BELLERICE)
ETHIQUE
ETHICS
(TRANSLATED BY COLE SWENSEN)
LE DESIR FOU
WILD DESIRE
(TRANSLATED BY COLE SWENSEN)
LITIGE
LITIGATION
(TRANSLATED BY COLE SWENSEN)

JON DAVIS
REVOLUTION

HELEN CHO
SACRIFICES
JUST VISITING

BOJAN LOUIS
CURRENTS (FIRST)

TIM BLACK
ABOVE THE STRAW
DARKEST ARCHON
THE MOTH EATER
THIS IS NOT A CHANT AT ALL
DEAR DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW

MAKALANI BANDELE
THE BRIDGE:SIRIUS B AND THE DOGON
AMANUENSIS

GLENN NORTH
VISITING AN OLD FRIEND
THE ART OF CHOKING

RACHEL JAMISON WEBSTER
BIRTH IS WHEN WE INVENT OURSELVES

SAM STECHER
THE ACTS OF GODS

JAMES P. LENFESTEY
A PRAYER TO EL NIÑO ON BEHALF OF THE GEESE
A CACOPHONY OF GRACKLES

JOY CASTRO
A VERTICAL CLIMB
CHICKEN SANDWICH, ALONE, CAFÉ
COVENANT

M.L. LIEBLER
ONE OUNCE OF FORGIVENESS
I AM LOOKING FOR YOU NOW
I WANT TO BE ONCE

NEIL HARRISON
THIS ANIMAL
OLD PHOTO OF "EDDIE"
SEASONS OF THE LONG SHADOWS
PLATTE VALLEY
GIRLS WAITING FOR THE CRANES
...AND GOLDEN NEEDLES
THIS DOG HUNTS

JIM PETERSON
GOYA'S DOG
FIRST SIGHT

KATIE YATES
MIGRATIONS

JIM NORTHRUP
DASH ISKIGAMIZIGANING
AND AT THE SUGAN BUSH

CREATIVE NONFICTION

KATE GALE
REMEMBER GUERNICA

WANG PING
KELISU EATERY

KELLY MADIGAN ERLANDSON
INVENTING RELIGION

OWEN G. MORDAUNT
VOCALIZATION OF (AND VOCALIZATIONS ON) SANDHILL CRANES

SHARON A. MURPHY
FERN RIDGE

CHIP LIVINGSTON
FAMILIAR FUR

MARY ALICE (WOSTER) HAUG
WILL MEMORY'S GROUND BE SOLID.

PAULINE DANFORTH
THE FOUR SEASONS OF ININAATIG
ECO

EILEEN APPERSON
LOS TULARES: THE PLACE OF THE RUSHES

KRISTINA ROTH
MIGTATING HOME

JIM WILSON
A STUDY IN GRAY

ALDEN WOOD
THE ETHICS OF THE NATURAL WORLD:
AN ANARCHO-PRIMITIVIST SYNTHESIS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER’S “THE BEAR”

ART GALLERY
works by:
SHIZUE SEIGEL
LINDA WOODS
BRANDON LINGLE
NEIL FRANKENHAUSER
SANDRA SOLI
KATRINA TALBOT
STEPHEN MEAD
CARLA FRISCH
JASON JILG
RYAN RODGERS
RUTH BEHLMANN

CONTRIBUTORS' BIOS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS