Oregon
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Vol. 2, No. 2

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Poetry Suddenly this dream you are having matches everyone's dream, and the result is the world. --William Stafford (Note: throughout this section, clicking on small images will enlarge them. The poetry editor thanks Ripley Hugo, Lois Welch, Sunni Kessler, Michael Wiegers, Lillian Pitt, Charles Gluskoter and Mike Santone for their assistance in compiling this section.) Poems: Drumming in the Open: Poets from the Institute of American Indian Arts: Britta Andersson Jon Davis Jennifer Foerster S. G. Frazier DG Nanouk Okpik Deleana Otherbull Cathy Tagnak Rexford Arthur Sze Orlando White Other Dancers Missoula Poets: In Memoriam Patricia Goedicke James Welch Richard Hugo National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), young poets (graphic design by Benjamin Baltazar): Jenna Brager Katherine L. Browning Olivia A. Cole Phoebe C. Rusch Phyllis Unkefer Students at Newby Elementary School Selected work. Also: Eight poems by Henry Carlile. Also see: "Like a Black Bell": On the Poetry of Henry Carlile by Paul Giles. Ukiyo-E by Siv Cedering. A story and a poem by James Crumley. Paint-By-Number Jesus by George Evans. Four poems by Michael S. Harper. Four poems by Milton Kessler. The Charlie Rose Show by Tom Meschery. Two poems by E. Ethelbert Miller. Two poems by John C. Morrison. Seven poems by Vern Rutsala. Three poems by Jim Shugrue. Five poems by Greg Thielen. Sestina for the Neighbors by Phyllis Unkefer. Also see Charles Deemer. Poems with images: Poetry, painting and photography by Siv Cedering. Translations: A Poem by Léopold Sédar Senghor, from the French by Léopold Sédar Senghor (plus essay). A Poem by Werner Aspenström, from the Swedish by Siv Cedering. Also see Cedering's Poetry and Images. Four Poems by George Themelis, from the Greek by Tom Doulis. Three Poems by Gunnar Svensson, from the Swedish by Lars Nordström. Three Poems by Pierre Emmanuel, from the French by Mary Anne O'Neil. A Poem by Paulann Petersen, from English to Italian by Joseph A. Soldati. From Copper Canyon Press: Broadsides Poets: Chris Abani Taha Muhammad Ali Mahmoud Darwish June Jordan W.S.Merwin Lisa Olstein Cesare Pavese Peter Pereira The Spoken Word: From the CD so quietly the earth by David Lee and Glen Moore. From the CD War Baby by Bill Ransom and Steve Cifka. Five Poems by Taha Muhammad Ali. Also see Thylias Moss. Essays: "Like a Black Bell": On the Poetry of Henry Carlile by Paul Giles. Muscle Memory by Tom Meschery. On Paragraphs by Vern Rutsala. Roots and Wings: Poetry Conveys the "Jizz" of Life by Susan J. Tweit. Also see Léopold Sédar Senghor essay. Book Review: Marianne Boruch's "Something" by Lisa M. Steinman.