PROVISIONS

INCLUDING: Ruth Arnison   Linda Arntzenius   Bruce Bennett   Elizabeth Birch   Barbara Siegel Carlson   Richard Dey   Chard deNiord   Susan Donnelly   Richard Fein   Mary Freeman   Helen Heineman   Robin Helweg-Larsen   John L. Holgerson   Katherine Jackson   Robert K. Johnson   George Kalogeris   David M. Katz   Jean L. Kreiling   David MacRae Landon   Miriam O'Neal   Marge Piercy   Hilary Sallick   Joan S. Soble   Elaine Sorrentino   Michael Todd Steffen   Emily Jane VandenBos Style   Diane Thiel   Jonathan Chibuike Ukah   Rachel Weintraub   Jay Wickersham   Joyce Wilson   Joanna Zarkadas  

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PROSE:
Editor’s NOTE   Two essays “Death and Euphemisms” and “Cats and Me Now” by Marge Piercy

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POETRY: By Richard Dey, from Moonrise over Penobscot Bay,        A Sequence of Eight Poems Three by Diane Thiel         The Song the Only Map         Turning         Appreciating Gravity Two by Michael Todd Steffen         For Michael Longley         My Cousins Three by George Kalogeris         Porcelain         Rash         Laundry Load Four by Richard Fein        Brighton Beach         Phrasing the End         A Different Night         Leaving Teaching . . . Three by Helen Heineman         Poetry Class         Losses         Stroke the world by Hilary Sallick Four by Marge Piercy         An orchestra of solos         Life in the dark         How we love now         Early spring is still a joy

Poem in which I thank my anger— by Miriam O’Neal Four by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah         My Sadness is My Private Property         The Bicyclist         A Dress Rehearsal         To My Little Sister Three by Joan S. Soble         The Field Who Would Be Queen         November 2008         On Plimack Mangold’s Winter Landscapes Two by Chard deNiord         Brush Pile         Orpheus’s Swan Song Four by Barbara Siegel Carlson         Swinging Near Dark         Above Earth         Afterlife         Green Mountains Walking Four Songs by Robert K. Johnson Shared Seas by Elizabeth Birch Great Crested Grebe by Jay Wickersham Brief Return to a Paradise Lost by John L. Holgerson Things My Father Held by Elaine Sorrentino Lullabye for Julian by Joanna Zarkadas Mossend Memoir by Linda Arntzenius Autumn Mulching by Ruth Arnison Two by Emily Jane VandenBos Style         Daffodil Study         Consider Joining the Potato Brigade

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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Sonnet Scroll

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