RHINO 2007

Editors’ Prizes
Editors’ Notes

Gabe Adoff Singing

Kelli Russell Agodon Between the Covers We Find Jesus

Jeannette Allée Lucifer Cleared His Goatish Throat, Hard Pew and The Earld Rotundis, ca. 1888

Victoria Anderson Letter to Chiapas , II

Tani Arness The Day

Lana Hechtman Ayers The Paradox of Life and Religion

Sandra Beasley The Fish

Carol Berg Make Believe

Catherine Black Hummingbird Incarnation

Victoria Boynton Quitting 2

Ronda Broatch Inishmór Goats

Cathy Carlisi Remember Me?

Lynne Yu-Ling Chien f(x) = xy – 1

Tom Christopher [The oldest man glides across the floor,]

Ewa Chrusciel Annunciation VIII

Cynie Cory I Can't Stay in Here and I Can't Stay in Here, Ain't It Clear?

James Cushing The Children's Hour (1963)

Renée D'Aoust Pearl Street

John Matt Dorn Ex-Parte

Wendy Drexler After Visiting the Memorial to Your Grandparents Who Died at Thieresienstadt

Thomas Dukes Etudes for El Paso and Spanish Guitar

Edison Dupree Recess

D.M. Ferguson Standing by a Tree, Early Spring and Aubade

Jennifer Finstrom Minotaur

Geoffrey Forsyth Coins

Elizabeth Graettinger Early a morning turned afternoon into a nightmare

James Grinwis A Rattle is Another Kind of Idiophone

Kelle Groom Sugar Mountain

Mark Halperin Chimera

Renee Lynn Hansen The Drought Just Then

Rebecca Hazelton The Earth Doesn't Mind

Kathleen Hellen Babylon I

Jannett Highfill Baedecker

Mary Crockett Hill A Theory of Everything

Taj Jackson Another plutonic bloom

Bonnie Jacobson excerpts from The Book of Jars: Jar #36

Jeff Jarosch Color and ice

Allan Johnston Childhood Near Hollywood

R. Kimm Who gets it?

Elizabeth Knapp On Running Into Jorie Graham in a Bathroom Stall at the Armand Musuem in Los Angeles , or the Poem I Always Wanted to Write About Antigone

David Koehn Spurge

Douglas Korb The Sky Is What I Say It Is

Daniel Langton On Seeing My Poems in Chinese

Mercedes Lawry A Painting Told Me This

Paul Legault Final Palindrome

Chip Livingston Crepi il Lupo

Taylor Loy Boris the Man Skinner

David Lunde Dear Vince,

Scott MacPhail Fair

Christopher Malpass Origin Stories

Jack Martin Into Space

Patricia McMillen Gristle

Jalina Mhyana Hina Matsuri

Steve Mueske My Life as a Kung Fu Movie

Matthew Murrey Flying Shamans

Jason Olsen Fire Engine Descending a Staircase

Lynn Pattison Deep Winter

James Piiparinen Silver Containers

Dan Pinkerton Us Against Them and Father Knows Best

Julie Platt The Finwife is Dismissed and Eulalia of Meridia

Alison Powell The Request

Claudia Putnam Navarre

Emma Ramey Servant and Samurai, For Easter

Josh Rathkamp Eclipse

John Repp No Away

Andrew Michael Roberts People Running from a Bus

Natania Rosenfeld Instruments

Sankar Roy The Fear of the Bride

F. Daniel Rzicznek Loose Pages, Found in a Field

Miriam Sagan Tefillah

Andrea Scarpino The Grove Behind and Afire

Mather Schneider Copperhead

Joan Siegel Pablo Picasso: Child with a Pigeon (1901) and On a Friend's Suicide in the Pennsylvania Woods

Martha Silano After Reading There Might Be an Infinite Number of Dimensions

Rebekah Silverman Even Now

Clara Silverstein Family Photo at Maymont Park

Matthew Sisson Thumb Sucking, A Quick Chat With My Boss

Erin Elizabeth Smith The Middle Ground and Divorce

Mark Smith The Barge “Captain”

John Struloeff And Then There's Marvin

Chad Sweeney The Methodist and His Method and Red Stripe in Mirror

Molly Tenenbaum My Binge

Jamie Thomas Towing Water to Australia

Meg Thompson Walking Home At Night Through a Residential Area

Susan Varnot Memento Mori

David Wagoner Crane Fly

Allen West Spring

Nancy White Girl Who Liked Doors

Lance Wilcox The Webcam on Yr Wyddfa

Vivienne Woodhead Thunder, 1954

Translations

Mario Benedetti Wet Paper
translated by Nicolas Mansito

Gastão Cruz The Spoon
translated by Alexis Levitin

Lorand Gaspar [still in the wind – ]
translated by Daniela Hurezanu and Stephen Kessler

Ericka Ghersi Among Lanterns
translated by Toshiya Kamei

Pablo Henrik Llambías Horn of Plenty
translated by Ingrid Lansford

Li Nan Eleven Line Poem
translated by Amy Liang and Steven Schroeder

Nava Semel The Rat Laughs
translated by Miriam Schlesinger excerpts from

RHINO Reads: Reviews of volumes by Kristy Bowen, Steve Davenport, Kate Greenstreet, Patricia McMillen, Martha Silano, Maria Terrone,