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Gerald Stern
Five poems by Gerald Stern.


POETRY
Christopher Buckley
Michael Burkard
Jeff Friedman
Ross Gay
Jack Gilbert This marks an author's first online publication
Linda Gregg
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Joan Larkin
Dorianne Laux
Jan Heller Levi
Anne Marie Macari
Ed Ochester
Alicia Ostriker
Kathleen Peirce This marks an author's first online publication
Peter Richards
Ira Sadoff
Jean Valentine
Arthur Vogelsang This marks an author's first online publication
Judith Vollmer
Anne Waldman
Peter Waldor
Michael Waters This marks an author's first online publication
 
Essay
"The Final Vocabulary of Gerald Stern" by David Rigsbee.

Book Review
"Save the Last Dance" by Gerald Stern—Book Review, by David Rigsbee.

Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari's third book She Heads into the Wilderness (Autumn House, 2008), followed Gloryland (Alice James, 2005), and Ivory Cradle, which won the APR/Homickman first book prize in 2000. She has published in many journals and directs the Drew University Low-Residency Program in Poetry.
 


Dance    


I can almost hear the crashing,
plants closing up, trees

sucking back their leaves.
A rash of bees in the tall

sage tasting everything purple.
In the house someone's

stomping around,  through
the deep underbrush and

into the mind, someone's
tramping. When I am dragged

down, let the legs
dance uncontrollably, wine

light spilling across
the table and floor.

 

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