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Dorianne Laux
"Dog Poets" by Dorianne Laux.

Dorianne Laux
Five poems by Dorianne Laux.


POETRY
This marks an author's first online publication Carl Adamshick
This marks an author's first online publication William Archila
Wes Benson
Roy Bentley
Michelle Bitting
Kim Bridgford
Stacey Lynn Brown
Grant Clauser
Michael Dickman
This marks an author's first online publication Matthew Dickman
This marks an author's first online publication Geri Digiorno
Cheryl Dumesnil
Molly Fisk
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Kate Lynn Hibbard
Major Jackson
Greg Kosmicki
Keetje Kuipers
Michael McGriff
This marks an author's first online publication Philip Memmer
This marks an author's first online publication Jude Nutter
John Repp
R. T. Smith
This marks an author's first online publication Brian Turner
 
Book Review
"Sister" by Nickole Brown—Book Review, by John Hoppenthaler.

Book Review
"Superman: The Chapbook" by Dorianne Laux—Book Review, by David Rigsbee.

Kim Bridgford

Kim Bridgford directs the creative writing program at Fairfield University, where she is a professor of English and editor of Dogwood and Mezzo Cammin. Her third book of poetry, In the Extreme: Sonnets About World Records (West Chester University Poetry Center, 2007), won the Donald Justice Poetry Award.



2001: A Space Odyssey    


We yearn for shapes: the violence that is flung,
The blood in iron curves along our tongue;
The coffin lit by God, His clear long lines,
The sweep of His mathematical designs.

We yearn to find the edge of time and space.
What can we know?  Is it beginning, end?
Is it the embryo of Holiness?
And if we touch it, can we comprehend?

And when we find our death in ornate halls,
Where glasses break, and heavy beauty mutes
The glorious vanity of our pursuits,
We ask, What does it mean? What out there calls
To hold the weight of our vast loneliness?
We want escape, and we'll take nothing less.









 

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