Copyright the author(s) ©2007–2012

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↓ Issue #5

POETRY:

• Samuel Day Wharton
  • Subject: Baron Jukaga Nodded to an Aide Standing in the Far Side of the Room Who Controlled
  • Subject: Bottomed Out, Going Back Up

• Fritz Ward
  • Self-Portrait in Conway, Arkansas

• Julie Marie Wade
  • “I’m drowning here, & you’re describing the water.”
  • “There’s no hole on earth where the heart drops through without bringing something with it.”

• Margot Schilpp
  • Living Arrangements
  • Myopia

• Nicholas Reading
  • From the Bible Belt
  • Parades in Kankakee

• G. M. Palmer
  • Last Sonnet

• Clay Matthews
  • Carne Asada
  • Mental Aerobics

• dawn lonsinger
  • Knee-Deep

• Lisa Lewis
  • Code of Honor

• Sara Kearns
  • The Good Doctor

• Todd Fredson
  • Flies Puckering in the Rain
  • Some Part of Yourself, Then—Vast, Repeating

• Gary Dop
  • Coleman Generator Plant—Darrell, Line Supervisor

• Curtis L. Crisler
  • They will say

• Nick Courtright
  • The Longest Sentence

• Chip Corwin & Michael Theune
  • from The Book of Exclamations

• Elizabeth J. Colen
  • Motor of the World

• Jenny Browne
  • Auscultation (or A Year After His Death, I Find What My Father Underlined in a Textbook on Listening to the Heart)

• Albert Abonado
  • The Missing Bridge

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G. M. Palmer

G. M. Palmer is the founding editor of Strong Verse and blogs at strongverse.blogspot.com. He lives on an urban farm in North Florida with his wife and kids and plays a mean mandolin.

Anti- Thesis:

“I am against the shabby chic of deconstruction. No one should be faced with a poetry that only empties the soul of the poet. Folks ought to be readers, not ersatz therapists.”

G. M. Palmer

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