Im very happy that my poem New Song of the South (one of an ongoing series of imaginary movies Ive been working on) appears in the current issue of Poet Lore (Volume 109, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2014, the 125th Anniversary issue). Theres a wonderful photograph of Paul Laurence Dunbar on the cover. Im honored to have my poem included in the company of so many amazing poems, including work by two friends from the Iowa Writers Workshop: Frannie Lindsay and Jeff Friedman. My thanks to editors Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller. Jody suggested a couple of revisions that made the language of my poem more exact and more musical. Heres the table of contents of the issue: POETRY Joseph Zaccardi On the Outskirts Henry J. Morro Mississippi Summer, 1948 Joseph Ross When Your Word is a Match Joseph Ross Eighteen Years Lisa Hartz Girl with a Bow J.D. Ledbetter red ribbons John Drury New Song of the South Karl Carter Life Line Mya Green Responsibility Cornelius Eady Otis Redding, being pulled from Lake Monona Terrance Hayes How to Be Drawn to Trouble Gary Fincke Song and Dance Carmen Germain Coming Home, 1945 Daniel Donaghy Puzzle Matthew Wimberley At Sundown, One Story Left Along the Haw River Steven Winn Fashion Statement Gary Hanna Slipping By John Bargowski My Mother’s Toothbrushes Brandel France de Bravo Tepoztlán, Mexico Sue Ellen Thompson Inheritance Chana Bloch In Extremis Catherine Morocco The Coffin Emily Card Saudade Michael Goldman The Cold Glenn Pape Teaching the Children to Be Lost Jessica Shipley The Plane Jayne Benjulian My Daughter When She Sleeps Tim Mayo The Trucker’s Tale Martin Galvin Fingering a Way to Count C.C. Reid Skyfishing Chanel Brenner Into the Schoolyard David Bart Dedication Peter Leight Castle Peter Leight The Gate of the World Leslie Ullman [from Ends-of-Day: a Crown of Meditations] - Time Leslie Ullman [from Ends-of-Day: a Crown of Meditations] - Wasted Leslie Ullman [from Ends-of-Day: a Crown of Meditations] - Keeping One Step Ahead Chase Twichell Radio Silence Chase Twichell Nan’s Stick Jeremy Voigt Then My Human Heart Doug Ramspeck Speaking in Tongues Doug Ramspeck Bodhi Tree Susan Cohen To My Breath Susan Cohen Magician Randolph Pfaff Contiguous Suzanne Roszak Origin Story Cindy Veach Pleasure Island Fred Shaw Impermanence Fred Shaw Scraping Away Tresha Faye Haefner We Drove Up to Malibu to Save Our Relationship Alice Notley The Nothing Alice Notley I’m Putting on My Battle Helmet Missy-Marie Montgomery The Bridges We Burn Jeff Friedman Hold Your Horses Marge Piercy The fifth storm Dallas Crow Portrait of My Friend Betty as a Deer Foraging in Her Own Back Yard Melva Sue Priddy Spring Equinox Naomi Ayala Here Daniel Bourne Rain, Then Sleep Oliver Rice Occurrences at Gallery Anton Barbara Crooker Espagnole: Harmonie en Bleu, 1923 Karen Hildebrand Two Figures in a Landscape David Salner Stag at Sharkey’s Jessica Jacobs Early Abstraction Linda Pastan Repetitions Linda Pastan River Pig Franke Varca Inviting the Guest Inside Franke Varca Cutting Newspaper Obituaries, Finding the Balloon, Jupiter Franke Varca Armor and Fever Linda McCarriston OMG Linda McCarriston Together Melissa Scholes Young Love Motel Dara Barnat Clean Sheets Nora Hutton Shepard Changing the Dead Man’s Sheets Rachel Heimowitz Life Lessons Frannie Lindsay Proxy Traci Brimhall The Old Miracles Return on Victoria Cruziana Traci Brimhall The Fate of Maria José da Cruz’s Seven Faiths Traci Brimhall Belterra Exodus Ellen Bass Not Dead Yet ESSAYS Introduction by Jean Nordhaus Melissa Girard “‘Who’s for the Road?’: Poet Lore, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Open Road of 19th-Century American Poetry” Joan Hua “Without Borders: Poet Lore’s Early Attention to World Literature in Translation” Megan Foley “Lovers: A Tribute to Poet Lore’s Founders” Bruce Weigl “Learning to Hear the Spirits Rumble: My Four Years with Poet Lore” Rod Jellema “Finding the Undercurrent: Three Reflections on the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry
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