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To Sturgeon, Danielle Cordaro

The Laureate

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Black Water In Prague, Gina Neubauer

The Laureate

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Solitude, Ryan Sprik

The Laureate

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Concerto In E-Minor, Lindsey Cherry

The Laureate

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Little Brother's Hand, Stacy Anderson

The Laureate

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Easter Falls On Sunday And He Carves The Ham, Sean Hoen

The Laureate

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Pika, Nicole Lawie

The Laureate

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Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton, Kelly Dean Shepherd

The Goose

Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton.

Breakdown Lane, Robert Phillips

Ontario Review

Robert Phillips' fifth collection of poems, Breakdown Lane, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins. A contributing editor of OR, he is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

House Of Childhood, A Moment, Everything, Gregory Orr

Ontario Review

Gregory Orr has recently completed two collections, The Marble Forest, from which these poems are taken, and a booklength sequence based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. A collection of his essays, Richer Entanglements, appeared last fall from the University of Michigan in its Poets on Poetry series. He directs the MFA Program at the University of Virginia.

Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform, Page Dougherty Delano

Ontario Review

Page Dougherty Delano's poems have appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Thirteenth Moon. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems, Victory Girls, about women in World War II. She teaches at Hunter College, and lives in New York City.

In Praise Of The Bathos, Albert Goldbarth

Ontario Review

Albert Goldbarth's most recent book is Across the Layers: Poems Old and New (Georgia). Winner of the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, he is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University in Kansas.

Incognito, And Not & Other Poems, Lynn Mcgee

Ontario Review

Lynn McGee, a former OR contributor, has published poems recently in Painted Bride Quarterly and fiction in Northwest Review. She lives in Brooklyn.

Saturday, Brooks Haxton

Ontario Review

Brooks Haxton's most recent books are Dead Reckoning and Traveling Company. New poems of his are in The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, and other journals. He teaches at Syracuse University.

In The Cemetery High Above Shillington, John Updike

Ontario Review

John Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 was published by Knopf last spring. His most recent novel is Brazil. A frequent OR contributor, he lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.

X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller

The Goose

A review of Shane Rhodes' X: Poems & Anti-Poems. This review focuses on the link between language and landscape, and considers the ways in which that link, reflected in Rhodes' work, comments upon the use of language as an oppressive tool in the treatment of Native Americans and Canadians.

"The Amusement Park Of Natural Disasters", Denver Butson

Ontario Review

Denver Butson's three books of poetry are triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews Press, 2001), and illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2004).

"Mechanical Horse With Girl And Bees", Paula Bohince

Ontario Review

Paula Bohince is the author of Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande Books, 2008). She has received the "Discovery" /The Nation Award and the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellowship.

"Bust," "Working In Flour", Jeff Friedman

Ontario Review

Jeff Friedman's fourth collection of poetry, Black Threads, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Margie, Poetry, Agni Online, and The New Republic. He is a core faculty member in the M.F.A Program in Poetry at New England College.

"Mrs. Grossheim's, 1955," "Never Again", Ronald Wallace

Ontario Review

Ron Wallace is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including For a Limited Time Only: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Long for this World: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh, 2003). He codirects the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin and edits the University of Wisconsin Press poetry series.

"Hare Song," "Descent", Tracy Jo Barnwell

Ontario Review

Tracy Jo Barnwell received an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins in 1998 and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Houston in 2005. She has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, the Barthelme Award for fiction. Her work has recently appeared in Pleiades, Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, and The Missouri Review.

"What Was Expected," "Tomma And Sandy", Joan Murray

Ontario Review

Joan Murray is a longtime contributor to Ontario Review. Her most recent collection is Dancing on the Edge (Beacon, 2002). She is also the editor of the Poems to Live By anthologies from Beacon and the Pushcart Book of Poetry.

"For A Moment You Are Nowhere," "Flag," "Nut," "Window", Michael Goldman

Ontario Review

Michael Goldman is Professor of English emeritus at Princeton University. He has published two volumes of poetry and several books of dramatic criticism, including Ibsen: The Dramaturgy of Fear, which recently won the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism.

"As Sure As Night Is Dark And Day Is Light," "Slights", Dick Allen

Ontario Review

Dick Allen is the author of seven collections of poetry including, most recently, The Day Before: New Poems, 2003 and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected, 1997, both by Sarabande Books. His poem "See the Pyramids Along the Nile" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2006.

"Chances", Robert Cording

Ontario Review

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross. He has published five collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press/ Journal award, in 1987; What Binds Us To This World (Copper Beech Press, 1991); Heavy Grace, (Alice James, 1996); Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002); and most recently, Common Life, from CavanKerry (2006).

"Rapture: South Branch Mortlock River, Doodenanning," "Canto Of The Dry River Empyrean (30)," "Rapture 6: The Crescent Of Little Beach", John Kinsella

Ontario Review

Australian-born John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and editor of the international literary journal Salt. His volume of poems The New Arcadia appeared from Norton in 2005.

"Minghun," "Hearts," "Lament", Elisabeth Murawski

Ontario Review

Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Moon and Mercury and Troubled by an Angel. Publications include: The Yale Review, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Chelsea, and others. Winner of the 2006 Ann Stanford Prize for "Abu Ghraib Suggests the Issenheim Altarpiece."

"Poem In Time Of War, 2006", Anita Barrows

Ontario Review

Anita Barrows, a prize-winning poet and a clinical psychologist, is the author of four books of poetry, and recipient of an NEA grant as well as the Quarterly Review of Literature's Contemporary Poetry Award. She has been a professional translator for more than thirty years.

"The Thin Glass Stems Of Insertion," "To This", Albert Goldbarth

Ontario Review

Albert Goldbarth's many collections of poetry include two that received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new book To Be Read in 500 Years, is forthcoming from Graywolf.

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 12, June 2014, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

Eric Stewart- "Same Love: Examining the Relationship Between David and Jonathan";

Santee Agrispin- "Music in my Life";

Jessica Anchundia- "Where I’m From";

Ahmed Caraballo- "A Life With Meaning";

Dina Esquivel- "How ‘McDonaldization’ Affects Our Society";

Jose Javier Castro- "Anonymously Yours";

Jose Javier Castro- "Homeland Uprootal";

Jose Javier Castro- "Gone but not Forgotten";

Earl Justice- "Dreamality";

Gisselle Belia- "Adios";

Eric Stewart- "After the Arrest: Exploring the Inner Workings of the New York State Criminal Justice System";

Karla Ferrera- "Poetry: The Awakening of a Creative Self";

Mario Leazard- "Sisters are Good Listeners";

Marlenny Toribio- "Finding Ways";

Angelica Rodriguez- "Antes de Morir";

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