Volume 39 (2012) BPR - Spring 2012
Complete Issue
Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (Complete Issue)
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Articles
Featured Poet: David Bottoms
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Book Reviews
We Almost Disappear
Chad Davidson
Give Over, Graymalkin
Jessica Murray
On the other Side, Blue
Jessica Murray
Utopia Minus
Jessica Murray
Poems
My Old Man Loves Fried Okra
David Bottoms
An Old Man Finds a Bench
David Bottoms
Concerning Gorky's "The Artist and His Mother"
Jasmine V. Bailey
Six Years On
Jasmine V. Bailey
the wall board knife
Michael Casey
beautiful day
Michael Casey
Cornelius' gas grill
Michael Casey
What the Dead Do
Katie Chaple
Life is Not a Porno
Katie Chaple
The Tornado Siren
Clayton Adam Clark
Stars Pay Back the Dark
Noel Conneely
Chancery Hand
Maryann Corbett
Soundtrack
Maryann Corbett
Limoncello
Chad Davidson
The Waterwalkers
Chad Davidson
Bobs and Dicks
Travis Wayne Denion
Thematics of Dirt
Cal Freeman
A Cabbage Farmer
Cal Freeman
On Euclid Avenue
Cal Freeman
Amygdalus persica (peach)
Amy Glynn Greacen
Rubus fruticosus (Blackberry )
Amy Glynn Greacen
Ficus carica (Fig )
Amy Glynn Greacen
The Vacant Lot at the End of the Street
Debora Greger
Last Laugh
Daniel Groves
@#$%+!!! (A Williamsonnet)
Daniel Groves
Lake Alice Epithalamium
Heather Hamilton
First Lines and Last
Robert Wayne Hill
King's Highway
Robert Wayne Hill
Measuring the Moon (1956)
Ron Houchin
Old Cowboy
Lowell Jaeger
Straphangers
Anne Ward Jamieson
Complaint of the Cubicle Jockey
Charles Jensen
Slash and Burn
Andrew Kozma
New Arrivals
Marianne Kunkel
Regarding Inhuman Fate
Harry Leeds and Georgy Ivanov
That Former Future
Alexis Levitin and Gastāo Cruz
August Once Again
Alexis Levitin and Gastāo Cruz
The Bamboo Talking Bamboo-Talk
Tim Liardet
Giant Lilies
Tim Liardet
Mister Gul as a Migrating Bush
Tim Liardet
Darwin in Mauritius
Tim Liardet
The Flame Trees of Trou Aux Biches
Tim Liardet
Farming Accidents
Austin MacRae
Lost to Fever
Angie Macri
Parenthood as Correspondence Course
Al Maginnes
Parenthood as Bad Theology
Al Maginnes
Roller coaster
David McAleavey
What have they done to my sonnet?
David McAleavey
Geese Imagine Living in Manhattan
Greg McBride
Joseph Van Gilreath (1922-1990)
Nick McRae
Mountain Redemption
Nick McRae
For Richard, My Student
Michael Milburn
Oral Report
Michael Milburn
To My Jailor
Rebecca Parson
The Vomit Sonnet
Rebecca Parson
“Absolute Commitment to Excellence”
Rebecca Parson
Western Summer
Rebecca Parson
Reverie: Nightfishing
Michelle Peñaloza
On Migration, upon Finding an Old Map
Michelle Peñaloza
Temporary Portables
David Rosenthal
The First Person
J D. Schraffenberger
Baltimore Mist
Dave Smith
God's Grace
Ronald Wallace
Living Room Floor
Wes Ward
Blond Mare, Iredell County, NC (1870-1896)
William Wright
Prayer to Worms
William Wright
Mix Tape with Foghorns
Nikki Zielinski
Gia Marotta
Nikki Zielinski
Front Matter
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End Matter
Birmingham Poetry Review 39 (End Matter)
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