APR Volume 38, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June, 2009

p. 3
Love Poem: bent & Other Poems
Joanne Dominique Dwyer

p. 7
Arriving at the Heart of Tragedy
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

p. 8
Verbatim & Donkey Propaganda
Aaron Balkan

p. 9
Ecstatic Émigré
Claudia Keelan
A Column

p. 11
Unconfessional & Other Poems
W. D. Snodgrass

p. 13
Mostly Read the Luna Moth & Amber Alert
Jordan Davis

p. 14
Gardening & Other Poems
Jay Hopler

p. 16
Cars and Culture: The American Hot Rod
Jack DeWitt
A Column

p. 18
Maps and Legends
Lori Shine

p. 20
Memory Loss
Ed Skoog

p. 22
Level & Aubade
Brian Henry

p. 23
Rooms Within Rooms
Len Roberts
In the Studio

p. 25
Poets Respond: A Discussion of “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden
Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, & Ira Sadoff
A Special APR Supplement

p. 29
All three thousand worlds & Other Poems
Dionisio D. Martínez

p. 30
Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queen’s Chickabobboo
Barbara Hamby

p. 31
blur & playing hooky
Quraysh Ali Lansana

p. 32
Yom Kippur & I Did It
Jeff Friedman

p. 33
Eddie Locke’s Drum Solo on “Caravan,” Alive! At the Village Gate
Sebastian Matthews

p. 34
Illinois & Term
Mischa Kuczynski

p. 35
Write Something on My Wall: Body, Identity, and Poetry
Kazim Ali
A Column

p. 40
Coming of Age
Margot Schilpp

p. 41
Vectors 2.3: Fifty Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
James Richardson

p. 42
Small Song
G. C. Waldrep

p. 43
Necessities & Inventions
Rusty Morrison

p. 44
Conscientious Objector Discharge & Other Poems
Fred Marchant

p. 46
Psalm & Offering
Christopher Johnson

p. 47
that old crutch, God & the aorta, more noise than life
Jeffrey Encke

p. 48
Ode to the Fish Fry & Morning Song
Adrian Blevins

p. 49
Metamorphoses II: Actaeon
Norman O. Brown

p. 52
Fuentes’ Book in Spanish
Michael Burkard