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Gambol In The Face Of Death: An Interview With Andrew Hudgins, Robert W. Hill

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 14-31

Origin Song, Cody Walker

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 145

House Under The Moon, Theodore Haddin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 186-188

Soul-Speak, Pimone Triplett

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 140-142

[Introduction To] The Cambridge Companion To Paradise Lost, Louis Schwartz

Bookshelf

This Companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its grand design. Essays in Part I introduce the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics …

Mommy What Is War For?, Ellen

Bryant Literary Review

One rainy day some people get scared

spill drips of innuendos

Nancy Underwood, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Or it may have been Susan.

Second grade; 1958--

Zoot: A Rondel, Philip Dacey

Bryant Literary Review

In '42, Los Angeles banned the zoot suit.

Crime came woven into the clothes some wore.

Curly*, Nora Barry

Bryant Literary Review

He sits on the ground his long hair flowing in the breeze. Beside him is the burial scaffold of his child.

The Fishing Trip, David Dragone

Bryant Literary Review

The waves came up on shore, speaking in tongues

While I waited for the ocean's pitched language

The Man Who Shoots Stop Signs, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

Standing alone on a dark road, maybe he believes

the new ones are virgins, too hard to resist.

Drownproofing, Tom Chandler

Bryant Literary Review

Just cup your hands

and peel back

water like sky.

What It Takes, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

All it takes is one blue rowboat tied to a buoy,

and its reflection, and this moment

Rhetor, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

"Words fail me." Why read further then?

Well, because you see the words do continue,

A Wake, Carol Harada

Bryant Literary Review

It's good to see the body, to know the difference. This bruised shell, with the jaw wanting to flap open, is not she.

Foxley's Progress, Michael Washburn

Bryant Literary Review

August 20, 2014

Dear Lance,

This letter has come with no return address.

An Element Of Style, Charles Sabukewicz

Bryant Literary Review

A noun by definition

can be almost anything:

Sleeping God, V. P. Loggins

Bryant Literary Review

On the ninth day of creation God

Had already slept for 63 hours.

Ice, Holly Guran

Bryant Literary Review

You are no companion

for this aging lover

lying in wait under snow.

Remembered, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

Years and months and days

fade into one another.

Only moments survive the chaos

Elegy Without Consolation, Matthew Buckley Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 133

Things In The Vicinity, Eamon Grennan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 76

"Well, Shaniqua’S Taking Her Time", Benjamin Grossberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 78-80

Naming The Dead, Robert Miltner

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 174-177

Cardiac, Marjorie Welish

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 149-150

Droit Du Vassal, Rebecca Foust

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 72

The Use Of The World, Shelly Cato

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 160-163

Witness, Amy Arthur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 55

The Arsonist's Lament, Eric Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p.131

The Conversation, Kimberly Bruss

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 64