Volume 45 (2018) BPR - Spring 2018
Complete Issue
Birmingham Poetry Review 45 (Complete Issue)
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Articles
Featured Poet: Gerald Stern
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
"And I Go On and On": Gerald Stern’s Poetics of Protest
Lucy Biederman
Book Reviews
Words, World / For the Future
John Saad
Protection Spell / Apocalypse Mix
Jessica Murray
Against Sunset
Jackie Zakrewsky
Then Winter
Cheyenne Taylor
Poems
The Cost of Love
Gerald Stern
Swimming Backstroke
Gerald Stern
Up on Blocks
Gerald Stern
March 17th
Gerald Stern
Poem Begun in a West Texas Corn Maze
Chad Abushanab
Blood of the Father
Dan Albergotti
In This World of Dust and Duty
Dick Allen
Seeing Your Breath
Dick Allen
Morning Routine
Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Andrea Spofford
Doppler Radar
Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Andrea Spofford
The Fortress of My Desk
Angela Ball
The Last Brandy
Angela Ball
Field Clod
Charles Bardes
Duck Blind
Charles Bardes
Duck Blind 2
Charles Bardes
The Permanence of Elapsed Time: Reflections on a Parochial Education
Christopher Buckley
Before the Term
Conor Burke
Look at These Altars
Elijah Burrell
The Killing Floor
Colby Cotton
We Met at Exclamation Point
Jim Daniels
Cedar Closet
Susan de Sola
Dandelions
Shawn Delgado
After Elytis
Toi Derricotte
Peaches of August
Toi Derricotte
Airplane Window
Toi Derricotte
Standing Up
Anna M. Evans
Penelope, with the Children
Mary Romero Ferguson
Dirty Old Man in the Dustbin of History
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Dirty Old Man and the Maestro
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Dirty Old Man Talks to Himself Behind His Back
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Tip of the Tongue
Jason Gray
Homecoming
Daniel Groves
Being Marvin's Underwear
Allison Joseph
About Your New Place
Annie Kantar
From Hi Harlem
Jee Leong Koh
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Andrew Kozma
Montaigne at Piggly Wiggly
David Landon
Late Epithalamium with Perrenials
Shara Lessley
The Ugly American
Shara Lessley
Studland Beach
Jennifer Holley Lux
What Our Children Will Be
Robert Manaster
Transcription
Robert Manaster
At The Sea Merchant Restaurant
Robert Manaster
A Cosmology of Clouds
Timothy McBride
The Last Time You Left Me for Your Wife
Ashley Anna McHugh
In the Galapagos Islands
Christopher Merrill
Father on the Beach, Tide Coming In
Thorpe Moeckel
In the Yoga Zone
Thorpe Moeckel
What Is Gone from Me
Peter Munro
I Heard the Buzzards Shrill
Laura Neal
One Hundred and Nineteen
Dan O'Brien
Liver Lilies, Yellow
Debbie Ou
Christ in the Wilderness: The Hen (1954)
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Proctors Hall Promontory
Ross Peters
"52 Yellow Cat"
Lizzy Petersen
Valediction at Lake Livingston
Nicholas Pierce
Heroic Origin
Saara Myrene Raappana
Smoke Dress
Doug Ramspeck
The Corinthian Woman
Chelsea Rathburn
In the Shower, My Daughter Studies My Naked Form
Chelsea Rathburn
People Bring Us Flowers
Mira Rosenthal
Björklunden
Austin Segrest
Autumn Tritina
Amanda Shires
Photo of Frost
R T. Smith
Soupbone Madrigal
Lisa Russ Spaar
Copperhead Madrigal
Lisa Russ Spaar
Lepidoptera of the Diamond Highlands
Eleanor Stanford
Each time I break
Rawdon Tomlinson
Real Estate
Pimone Triplett
Supply Chain
Pimone Triplett
Where It Begins
Jay Udall
Head of Clover
Laura Van Prooyen
Appalachian Vowels
Mark Wagenaar
Endless Summer
Chet Weise
Sea-Change
Catherine Wing
Essay
Front Matter
Birmingham Poetry Review 45 (Front Matter)
Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
End Matter
Birmingham Poetry Review 45 (End Matter)
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