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Editorial Statement

Dale Smith
               / "A Quick Take-out Poem for Phillip Whalen:
                  In Memorium (6.26.02)"
Gillian Conoley
               / "Inelegant Motherless Child"
Maria Rivera
               / from the series "Cypressus" (tr. Jen Hofer)
Carmen Gimenez-Rosello
               / "Sightings of Claude"
Sara Veglahn
               / from "Another Random Heart"
Steve Hemenway
               / "Translation Dictionary"
Angélica Tornero
               / from "Fotografías en lof labios de alguien" (tr. Jen Hofer)
Bob Harrison
               / four poems
Rick London
               / "going away"
Jeanne Heuving
               / from "Staples"
Paige Menton
               / from "Formerly for the Countless Numbers"
Brent Cunningham
               / "Bird & Forest"
Geraldine Monk
               / "Marion Hangings"
Stacy Szymaszek
               / from "Some Mariners"
Jim Petersen
               / "A Song of a Bluer Bird"
Karl Krolow
               / "Beginning of Love"
               / "Restlessness"
               / "Day in Germany" (tr. Maxine Chernoff)
Joseph Kolb
               / five poems
Adriano Spatola
               / "Ancient and Modern Forms of Shame" (tr. Paul
                  Vangelisti)
Elizabeth Treadwell
               / from "D'Aulaires"
Dan Featherston
               / from "United States"
Anne Shaw
               / "Trans / parence"
Hoa Nguyen
               / "Innocence and Experience"
               / "Journey with Investigative Bees"
               / "A Keep It Together Kind of Walk"
               / "Rain After a Dry Spell"
Sawako Nakayasu
               / from "A Balconic"
Vera Linhartová
               / "Anachronic" (tr. Keith Waldrop)
Jen Hofer
               / "(in defense of a way)
Nicole Brossard
               / "The Throat of Lee Miller" (tr. Robert Majzels & Erin
                 Mouré)
Jean Day
               / "Prose of the World Order"
Beth Anderson
               / "The Scale of Largesse"
               / "Rescue"
David Miller
               / "Spiritual Letters (series 3, #6)"
Peter Gurnis
               / "Letter #3)
Valerie Coulton & Ed Smallfield
               / "Untitled (Albuquerque)
               / "Untitled, 1964"

Lewis Ellingham & Kevin Killian
               / "'She is the she of the next sentence': Bobby Lennon and
                   the Berkeley Renaissance"
Mark DuCharme
               / "Radical Lyricality"
Hoa Nguyen
               / "State of the Lyric"
Tiff Dressen
               / "Pronouns: More than Substitutes"
Kristina Krause
               / "The Left Hand of Parenthesis"
Julia Bloch
               / "Aidan Thompson's Particle and Probability"
Laura Moriarty
               / "Poetics of Distribution"

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