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I COLUMBIA PO ET RYREVIEW Spring 2007 COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO Columbia Poetry Review is published in the spring of each year by the English Department of Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60605. SUBMISSIONS Our reading period extends from August 1 to November 30. Please send up to 5 pages of poetry during our reading period to the above address. We do not accept e-mail submissions. We respond by February. Please supply a SASE for reply only. Submissions will not be returned. PURCHASE INFORMATION Single copies are available for $8.00, and for $11.00 outside the U.S. Please send personal checks or money orders made out to Columbia Poetry Review to the above address. WEBSITE INFORMATION To see an archive of back issues visit Columbia Poetry Review’s website at http://english.colum.edu/cpr. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kenneth Daley, Chair of the English Department; Dominic Pacyga, Acting Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Steven Kapelke, Provost; and Dr. Warrick Carter, President of Columbia College. The lines “And the red dress (think about it,/redress) is all neckhole”, which appeared in the poem “Red Dress Cento #1” in issue no. 19, are taken from “Your One Good Dress” by Brenda Shaughnessy (Interior with Sudden Joy, FSG 1999). Cover art: Self-Portrait as Tender Mercenary. Julie Heffernan, 2006. oil on canvas, 91”x 68”. Design by Columbia College Chicago Creative & Printing Services ISSN: 1930-4900 Copyright © 2007 by Columbia College Chicago All rights revert to authors upon publication Printed in the U.S.A. MANAGING EDITOR Cora Jacobs EDITORS Hanna Andrews Amanda M. Johnson Becca Klaver BJ Soloy Jennifer Watman ASSISTANT EDITORS Margaret Brady C.H. Eding Monica Gerstemeier EDITORIAL BOARD N’Kyenge Brown Piper Daniels Joe Eldridge Ted Jackle Shanley Erin Kane Daniela Olszewska Kristen Orser Jessica Rose Jennifer Steele Nicole Wilson READERS Richard Dugan Stephen Dvorak Sara Faye Harvey Nicole Martin FACULTY ADVISOR David Trinidad FIRSTNAME LASTNAME In memory of Byron, who never missed a meeting CONTENTS JEAN VALENTINE Photographs at her Wake ..............................................................1 The Poet ......................................................................................2 LISA FISHMAN from On the Sea ...........................................................................3 JOE ELDRIDGE A Giant Proposal ..........................................................................6 BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY A Brown Age ...............................................................................7 Moth Death on the Windowsill ....................................................9 A Poet’s Poem ............................................................................11 Glass Family ...............................................................................12 ALBERTO RÍOS The Leukemia Girls ...................................................................13 SHIN YU PAI lucky strike ................................................................................15 BRANDI HOMAN Typography: The Letter A ...........................................................16 A History ..................................................................................17 Looking for Desnos ...................................................................19 JAMES SHEA This Is Not What I Came Here For............................................21 CHET GRESHAM The Trouble With Documentaries ..............................................22 DENISE DUHAMEL from Help (In 47 Languages) Menahan ................................................................................24 Naadamaagen .........................................................................25 Namola ..................................................................................26 KRISTY BOWEN the ten-in-one ...........................................................................27 CHRIS GREEN Letter to cin salach .....................................................................28 MIKE WHITE Cinéma Vérité ............................................................................30 D.A. POWELL & HAINES EASON Jump Cut ...................................................................................31 Day for Night ............................................................................33 HAINES EASON Dear Dad, ..................................................................................34 BJ SOLOY My Co-Pilot is a Welsh Pixiehorse .............................................37 JULIE ROUSE The Play House .........................................................................38 BRIGITTE BYRD (perhaps the reason was really that) .............................................39 DEAN YOUNG Arsonist at Rest .........................................................................40 Half Story Half-life ....................................................................41 Washing in Cold Water ..............................................................42 ANGIE ESTES Last Words..................................................................................43 SUSAN KUREK Truth #60 ..................................................................................44 JASON TANDON I Don’t Speak Donkey ...............................................................45 LANDIS EVERSON High Heels, Low Spirits .............................................................46 Troy Poem .................................................................................47 MÓNICA DE LA TORRE from One Hour Photo Fuck the Stars and Other Heavenly Bodies .............................48 Exercise Your Monotony .........................................................49 SEAN FLYNN Techno-Cento ...........................................................................51 MARK NEELY Four Blues .................................................................................52 AMANDA M. JOHNSON I Remember (Being Sick and Injured) .......................................54 FRANK GIAMPIETRO Me Spy With My Little Eye .......................................................58 Please, ........................................................................................59 RACHEL FINKELSTEIN Swiss Lint ..................................................................................60 JORDAN DAVIS West To East (Ten Ten Wins) .......................................................61 The Sense Of An Ending ...........................................................63 REBECCA LOUDON Eating the tender thing that will not fill .....................................65 ANIS SHIVANI What the Iranian Woman Wants to Say to Her American Counterpart .........................................................................66 K.E. DUFFIN Mountaineer ..............................................................................67 RICHARD MEIER Rainbow Report .......................................................................68 Diurnal Round ..........................................................................69 TERESA K. MILLER After Aftermath ..........................................................................70 HANNA ANDREWS Dear you, all the coins have gone soft, ........................................71 JOAN LARKIN Last Seen ...................................................................................72 Phoning My Brother..................................................................73 Houston to Tucson .....................................................................74 MIKE HAUSER Triple Envelopment Strata ..........................................................75 KAIA SAND from family album of earthen estrangement actual pedigree charting soap & milk .......................................86 “did you read” .........................................................................88 Brief Memoir ............................................................................90 MICHAEL ROBBINS On this date in history ...............................................................91 DANIELLE AQUILINE Cakes .........................................................................................92 Traveling Games ........................................................................93 PATRICK WOODCOCK The Saddest Ink .........................................................................94 MICAH PERRY Boot-Strap Blues ........................................................................95 ARIELLE GREENBERG Dissociative Fugue .....................................................................96 Your Bad Feelings ......................................................................97