Other Poets/Other Poems

Anonymous, Issue 17

Antler, Issue 36

Amy Beeder, Issue 16

Boyd W. Bensen, Issue 31

Donna Biffar, Issue 15

Kimberly Blaeser, Issue 27

P. W. Boisvert, Issue 39

Rick Cannon, Issue 28

Jared Carter, Issue 24

David Chorlton, Issue 40

Billy Collins, Issue 1, Issue 18

Philip Dacey, Issue 6

Denise Duhamel, Issue 13

Stephen Dunn, Issue 34

Stuart Dybek, Issue 41

Dave Etter, Issue 14

Norma Hammond, Issue 22

David Hernandez, Issue 23

Susan Holahan, Issue 12

Tim Hunt, issue 42

Angela Just, Issue 32

Lisa Kadous, Issue 20

Julie King, Issue 30


Lyn Lifshin, Issue 19

Louis McKee, Issue 5

Eve Merriam, Issue 7

Pamela Miller, Issue 8

Lisel Mueller, Issue 29

D. Nurkse, Issue 9

Alexis Orgera, Issue 35

James Reiss, Issue 26

Len Roberts, Issue 2

Kristopher Saknussemm, Issue 10

R. T. Smith, Issue 38

Cathy Song, Issue 21

Judith Valente, Issue 37

Charles Harper Webb, Issue 25

Mary Ann Waters, Issue 11

J. D. Whitney, Issue 33

Bayla Winters, Issue 3

Lila Zeiger, Issue 4

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Early Snow

The road I knew is gone. In the dark, down a double row of street lamps
illuminating seeming puffs of whirling seed, I steer my slow, slippery guess.

From the softened lot I enter and sign the book, tight clots of murmuring
women, mute husbands fumbling with their hands.

Your boys are men now, cleaned up scruff, silk square knots
plump as buds. "Just dropped," they say, "Sunday, like a cable snapped."

A line at the priedieu. Finally I kneel. Your face is flatter, lips slimmer,
some dirt ridging a nail. Vince, you harbinger you! bringing in our season:

don't we learn early what we already know? Soon, it's February everywhere,
and it's roses, roses, spoiling the cold scent of snow.

--Rick Cannon
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