blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1
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POETRY

John Allman
   News from Home
   Reading Andrew Marvell
   Renters
   This Time

Becca Barniskis
   From the Letters of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck

Sandra Beasley
   Drink
   She Falls Asleep in Strange Places
   You

Jennifer Chang
   Estuary
   Field Guide to the Night Sky
   Slept

R. H. W. Dillard
   Ten Poems from What Is Owed the Dead

Jehanne Dubrow
   Ars Poetica
   Charm Against a Broken Tongue

Margaret Gibson
   East Window, Moon

Lorene Lamothe
   Paper

Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
   Caretaker
   The Melancholy Tailor

 

 

 

 

Christine Perrin
   Prisoner of War Camp,
      Pine Grove Furnace
   Spring Poem

Catherine Pierce
   Domesticity
   This Is Not an Elegy

Ed Skoog
   Bela

Alison Stine
   Everything Is an Instrument
   Tiresias

Sarah Vap
   Are you expressing a desire to know me?
   Breast-Feeding Across America
   The Cow Can’t Fear Something Eternal
   Horses Remember How
   Mark Time
   Night Bath, Sagittarius

Martin Walls
   Crows

Terri Witek
   Kimono Pulled Up as Bedclothes (Willow)
   Stiff-Edged Kimono (Ruffled Iris)
   Reading to Children
   Right Over Left