Volume 44 (2017) BPR - Spring 2017
Complete Issue
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Complete Issue)
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Articles
Featured Poet: Claribel Alegría
Carolyn Forché
Preface to Flores del Volcan (Flowers from the Volcano)
Carolyn Forché
Introduction to Saudade (Sorrow)
Carolyn Forché
An Interview with Caribel Alegría
Salvador Peralta and Gregory Fraser
Caribel Alegría: A Human Presence
Laura Sonderman
Book Reviews
Upcycling Paumanok
Stephen Kampa
Rough Knowledge / Pleasures of the Game
Robert Walker
Overheard in a Drug Store and Other Poems
Brad Johnson
Scriptorium
Saara Myrene Raappana
System of Ghosts
Cheyenne Taylor
Poems
From Love without End
Claribel Alegría
To My Mother
Claribel Alegría
This Mirror Understands Me
Claribel Alegría
My Paradise in Mallorca
Claribel Alegría
We Were Three
Claribel Alegría
Documentary
Claribel Alegría
Savoir Faire
Claribel Alegría
If the Dead Bird in the Gutter Rises Up
Kate Angus
Men in Bars
Kate Angus
Time's Passage at Whiskey River
Ned Balbo
Fool's Elegy
Ned Balbo
What Words Survive
Ned Balbo
Night Watch
Ned Balbo
Animal College
Ned Balbo
Gimpel the Adjunct
Ned Balbo
I Sit Atop a Compost Toilet
David Basilico
About Halfway Down the Page
Michelle Boisseau
Bone Flute
Bruce Bond
Belladonna
Bruce Bond
Nostalgia for the Infinite
Bruce Bond
Little King Snake on the Prayer Porch
David Bottoms
Hudson at Saugerties
Joshua R. Butts
Search & Rescue
Michael Chitwood
Salvage: A Field Guide
Clayton Adam Clark
Four Broken Ways to Pray
Rob Cook
In a warm sea
Eric Elshtain
Mind of Winter
Nausheen Eusuf
Pied Beauty
Nausheen Eusuf
The Right Words
Diamond Forde
Autoportrait sans Moi-Même
Rebecca Foust
Rhinoceros
Andrew Glaze
The Romantics
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Lizzie Borden's Pears
Juliana Gray
The Chauffeur's Daughter Recalls Miss Borden
Juliana Gray
Comeback with Swans
Eamon Grennan
I'm Not Really a Waitress
Lisa Hammond
Particle Search in D Minor
Jeffrey N. Johnson
Sparrows on a High Wire
Madison Jones
The Quiet Boy
Stephen Kampa
The Resurgiance
Brian Laidlaw
The Reckoning Remedy
Brian Laidlaw
The Reckoning Rosary
Brian Laidlaw
[The Place I Love Is Burning]
Brian Laidlaw
Decoding the Colorless Puzzle
Carey Link
The Age of Heroes
William Logan
Homage to an Army
William Logan
D-Day, 2014
William Logan
Apples Like Roses
Angie Macri
Nothing Will Be All Right, But Thank You Anyway
J G. McClure
Self Portrait as Ego and Vehicle
J G. McClure
Woman Screaming Against Angels
John McKernan
Self Portrait as Ego and Vehicle
Leslie Adrienne Miller
What the Glossator Knows
Leslie Adrienne Miller
The Glossator Realizes that Large Birds
are Probably Unstable Signifiers
Leslie Adrienne Miller
No One Can Own the Beach
Rachel Morgan
Our House on Fire
Burt Myers
Bruce's Mood
Mark Neely
A Scholar's Vacation
Kyle Norwood
Calaveras Big Trees
Amy Pence
Elegy for Mark Strand
John Poch
Visiting Hours with My Grandmother
Deborah Pope
Chapel (1963)
Terry Savoy
"I carry words …"
Will Schutt and Francesco Scarabicchi
A Half Wave
Will Schutt and Francesco Scarabicchi
Cold Bearing
Barry Sternlieb
Sustenance
Barry Sternlieb
Hotel California
Jeffrey Thomson
What We Carry
Ellen Doré Watson
One of the Waves
Ellen Doré Watson
What I Won’t Say about My High-School Girlfriend
Marcus Wicker
Menagerie. Thasos Museum
Allison Wilkins
To Bear Them Up
Eleanor Wilner
Intimations
Eleanor Wilner
The Phoenix Reflects on Its Peculiar Situation
Eleanor Wilner
What the Kite Sees
Eleanor Wilner
When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light
Eleanor Wilner
Essay
Value Hunger: Feeding the Need for Assessment in Poetry
Michael Theune and Bob Broad
Front Matter
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Front Matter)
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End Matter
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (End Matter)
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