v9

What Passing Bells

What Passing Bells

A policeman blocks the road so I stop
and tut and tap the wheel and find a sweet
and scrape it through its wrapper with my teeth.
More cars stop. Then bright rustling up the street
from snare drums and some reedy trumpet-calls
remind us all what day it is. In front

Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, but has spent most of his life in England. A number of his poems will be included in a Carcanet anthology in 2011, and poems have been taken by various magazines including Agenda, PN Review and Stand. He lives between Leicester and Bristol, and is studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester.

Lust Redeems Her Car from the Parking Valet

Lust Redeems Her Car from the Parking Valet

Rebecca Foust

Rebecca Foust’s books include All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song  (Many Mountains Moving Prize, 2010) and God, Seed, environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens (Sept. 2010). Foust’s poetry won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes and appears in Hudson Review, Margie, North American Review, Spoon River Review, and elsewhere.

Myself in an Old Photograph

Myself in an Old Photograph

That was the day.  This is the final record,
me before the change.  It’s fantasy
to search out the expression of a word
in lips still motionless—how can I hope
to read a cheek’s subtext, identify
exactly the pigment, shadow, line or shape,
the gaze’s drift, the impossible unblurred
flicker of anguish in a printed eye
that means I did not know, but I would learn.
Nobody can be loved on his own terms.

Peter Kline

Peter Kline lives in San Francisco, where he is a Stegner Fellow in Poetry Writing.  Some of his recent work can be found in ZYZZYVA, Lo-Ball, The Potomac Review, Quiddity, and The Pennsylvania Review.

Across a Crowded Room

Across a Crowded Room

Peter Austin

Peter Austin lives with his wife and three daughters in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches English at Seneca College. Over a hundred of his poems have been published, in magazines and anthologies in the USA (including Contemporary Sonnet, The Lyric, Iambs & Trochees, The Pennsylvania Review, The Barefoot Muse, 14 by 14, The Raintown Review, The Shit Creek Review, Lucid Rhythms, The Chimaera and Road not Taken), Canada and elsewhere. He also writes plays, and his musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has enjoyed four productions.<

Chimborazo Hospital

Chimborazo Hospital

           (after the Battles of the Seven Days)

Lance Levens

Lance Levens is a writer/Latin teacher from Savannah, GA. He has has published in Beloit Poetry ReviewThe Adirondack ReviewThe Danforth Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook Jubilate was published by the Pudding House Press in 2007. In that same year he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction.

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