American Letters & Commentary #11

Cover of issue #11

TIMOTHY LIU Psalm
MICHAEL PALMER Autobiography 9
W. R. MARCY The Ersatz Armenian
MICHAEL JAY McCLURE Two Poems
MARK IRWIN A Distance
BARON WORMSER Two Poems
BJ ATWOOD-FUKUDA The Wreck of the Platonic
NIN ANDREWS Making Love to Houdini
MICHAEL GUSHUE Altering Penetrating
MARGOT SCHILPP In Memory of Freud
LIZ WALDNER Flight Path of Real Desires
DONNA DE LA PERRIERE Even your breath can't save you, even your bones give you away
AMY PENCE Take Back
DAVID GOLUMBIA Our Wings
AMY ENGLAND Nothing Framed Is Accident
KAREN VOLKMAN Two Poems
MALINDA MARKHAM Two Poems
TIMOTHY DONNELLY Two Poems
MATTHEA HARVEY Two Poems
Special Feature: Elliptical Poets
STEPHEN BURT The Elliptical Poets
ROBERT MUELLER The Subject and the Elliptical Poets
CLAUDIA KEELAN School's Out
COLE SWENSEN Elliptical Poetry: A Response
EDWIN FRANK A Demurral
STEPHEN BURT About Ellipticism (Round Two)
BRIAN HENRY Three Poems
MOIRA EGAN Semiotics
GEORGE KALAMARAS Two Poems
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN The Lawless Germinal Element
JOHN OLSON Vis-à-Vis
BARBARA GUEST Outside of This, That Is
G. HULL from B
JOSHUA HARMON Sundowning
DAVID BRESKIN Relevancy
ANNE-MARIE LEVINE POEMS
GERARD MALANGA Baron Haussmann Sweeps Through Paris
NANCY NALVEN Two Poems
MARY JO BANG Two Poems
GEOFFREY G. O'BRIEN Two Poems
BRIAN JOHNSON Two Poems
BARRY SILESKY Vacation
KATHLEEN OSSIP Ballade Confessionnelle
GEOFF BOUVIER The Late Stages of a Housewife
JENNILYN ROMANO How the Noun Watched Others Watch It Fall Apart
ROBIN REAGLER Mobius Strip
BEN MILLER from Tiny Tales of Mayhem, Madness & Murder, #220
JERRY MASON The Long Retum
TOD THILLEMAN Slate
SUSAN LASHER More Rain Stories
JOSHUA McKINNEY Two Poems
SHARON DOLIN Two Poems
SCOTT HIGHTOWER Andromeda
ELIZABETH ROBINSON Happenstance: Landscape
RICHARD MEIER Seesaw Under Pine Shadows
MARY ANN SAMYN Poem of One Hand Waving
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