RHINO 2006

Editors’ Prizes
Editors’ Notes

Carl Adamshick All light is arriving light

Neil Aitken Outside Plato’s Republic, the Last Poets Wait for Departure

Maureen Alsop Finding the Best Mathematician

Priscilla Atkins I Was Telling You About Love

Edward Beatty A Father’s Dream in Time of War

Kristy Bowen toward the blue peninsula and midnight pastoral

Marion Boyer New River Gorge, West Virginia and One Shoe on the Freeway

Joey Brown A Girl You Could Get, Pt. 2

Julia Budenz Diary of Flora Baum: January 23, 2005, Ianualia

Julie Cooper-Fratrik At Dusk, Driving Past a Small Nursery on Upper Mountain Road

Jill Alexander Essbaum Houses, Haunted

Michael Estabrook frogs and the Boston Strangler

Brent Fisk At Flood Stage

Chris Forhan Cruising Lake Cityand The Fall

Geoffrey Forsyth The Wall

Carrie Fountain Alamogordo

Matthew Gavin Frank Second Honeymoon

Marc J. Frazier Anomalies

Diane Furtney Lithium, Chromium

Paul Gibbons How the Sky Touches

Alexandra Grace Solstice

Greg Grummer The Root Causes of War and First Breaths

Jared Harel Falling in love in the 6th grade at a pool party –

Peter Harris Sister Brigit

Liam Heneghan An Intentional Forest

Claire Hero Coming of Age in America

Tom Hunley None of Them Wanted to be a Cloud

Joseph Hunt Looks Like a Lemonade Stand

Andrea Jackson Leakage

Daniel Johnson Imagine Getting Exactly What You Want

L. Bellee Jones Six Days Late

Erin Jourdan Cult of the Subconscious

Sally Rosen Kindred Noah Waiting, Not Praying

Janet Norman Knox Gravity Dog

Kristina Kocan Jo was here –

Ted Lardner From Afar and Singing

Diane LeBlanc Living With Forbidden Desire in the Midwest

Rebecca Louden Learning to Drive the Tractor

Erin Malone At the Seams

Paul Martinez-Pompa Police Dog and Want

Frank Matagrano Psalm Two

Clay Matthews Elegy for the Organ Slowly Dying Inside

Kathleen McGookey At the John Ball Zoo

Ellen McKnight Watching

Roger Mitchell Always Somewhere

D.O. Moore Wedding Dress: Doubting Color, Doubting Memory

C.J. Muchhala Legacy

Art Nahill Miracles

Carla Panciera At Helen’s House

Ricardo Pau-Llosa Ryman Auditorium, Nashville

Jennifer Perrine The Resurrectionist’s Wife

Gretchen Primack Avenue

Marcia Lynx Qualey From Underneath the Nile

Doug Ramspeck Visiting Hours

Michael Robins First Doubts in Third Person

Margaret A. Robinson Like Marvin Bell

Lindsey Gail Ronfeldt The Art

Geri Rosenzweig Jealous Only of the Red Bowl of the Sun and Pastoral

Lee Rossi “Figure with Meat”

F. Daniel Rzicznek Mane and Claw and Natural: History

Jacob Saenz Blue Line Incident

Andrea Scarpino Trou de Memoire

Maureen Seaton Cybele’s Caves

Patty Seyburn Pop-Quiz: The Spider, Itsy Bitsy

Marian Kaplun Shapiro Watching Grass Grow

Sarah Sloat The Silent Treatment

Ardis L. Stewart Dead Poet’s Dresses

Barbara Buckman Strasko Solo in the Snow

Jim Tilley Serendipity in the Cosmos

Justin Vicari Trakl at the Front

Jeremy Voigt The Paper Around the Orange

Lynn Wagner Glass Case No. 35

Sara Wallace blue curve of empty interstate

Ernie Wormwood Shampoo

Donald Zaremba Passing Through

Translations

Ioan Flora Field Notes
translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Borta

Alvaro Garcia the painter
translated by Chris Michalski

Genevieve Hutton Near Belchatov
translated by Bradford Gray Telford

Ioana Ieronim Melody of the Day I and Melody of the Day II
translated by Carrie Messenger

Li Nan Falling Leaves
translated by Amy Liang and Steven Schroeder

William Ospina An Old Historian Tells His Story
translated by Elaine Fowler Palencia and Michael Palencia-Roth

RHINO Reads: Reviews of volumes by Paulette Beete, Jan Bottiglieri, Kristy Bowen, Patricia Clark, Michael Hettich, Kathleen Kirk, Bill Morgan, Simone Muench, Lynn Pattison, Anele Rubin, Judith Valente and Charles Reynard.