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Spring 2018 Number 45


Cover of BPR 45 (2018), an illustration of a lizard on a branch in front of a green brocade curtain.Featured Poet

Gerald Stern

Winner of the Collins Prize

Shara Lessley

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Contents

  • Featured Poet

    Gerald Stern

  • Featured Essay

    Ryan Wilson

    • The Polyvocal Poet: Tradition, Translation, and the True Original
  • Poems
    • Chad Abushanab
      • Poem Begun in a West Texas Corn Maze
    • Dan Albergotti
      • Blood of the Father
    • Dick Allen
    • Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Andrea Spofford
      • Morning Routine
      • Doppler Radar
    • Angela Ball
      • The Fortress of My Desk
      • The Last Brandy
    • Charles Bardes
      • Field Clod
      • Duck Blind
      • Duck Blind 2
      • Rictus
      • Lararium
    • Christopher Buckley
      • The Permanence of Elapsed Time: Reflections on a Parochial Education
    • Conor Burke
      • Before the Term
    • Elijah Burrell
      • Look at These Altars
    • Colby Cotton
      • The Killing Floor
    • Jim Daniels
      • We Met at Exclamation Point
    • Susan de Sola
      • Cedar Closet
    • Shawn Delgado
      • Dandelions
    • Toi Derricotte
    • Jehanne Dubrow
      • Minutes
    • Anna M. Evans
      • Standing Up
    • Mary Romero Ferguson
      • Penelope, with the Children
    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
      • Dirty Old Man in the Dustbin of Historyr
      • Dirty Old Man and the Maestro
      • Dirty Old Man Talks to Himself Behind His Back
    • Jason Gray
      • Tip of the Tongue
      • Octopus
    • Benjamin S. Grossberg
      • Pinnacle
    • Daniel Groves
      • Homecoming
    • Allison Joseph
      • Being Marvin’s Underwear
    • Annie Kantar
      • About Your New Place
    • Jee Leong Koh
      • From Hi Harlem
    • Ted Kooser
      • At Home
    • Andrew Kozma
      • Memoirs of an Invisible Man
    • David Landon
      • Montaigne at Piggly Wiggly
    • Shara Lessley
      • Late Epithalamium with Perennials
      • The Ugly American
    • Jennifer Holley Lux
      • Studland Beach
      • Kazahana
    • Robert Manaster
      • What Our Children Will Be
      • Transcription
      • At The Sea Merchant Restaurant
    • Timothy McBride
      • A Cosmology of Clouds
    • Max McDonough
      • The Bat
    • Ashley Anna McHugh
      • The Last Time You Left Me for Your Wife
    • Christopher Merrill
      • TIn the Galapagos Islands
    • Thorpe Moeckel
      • Father on the Beach, Tide Coming In
      • In the Yoga Zone
    • Peter Munro
      • What Is Gone from Me
    • Laura Neal
      • I Heard the Buzzards Shrill
    • Dan O’Brien
      • One Hundred and Nineteen
    • Debbie Ou
      • Liver Lilies, Yellow
      • Echo
    • Ricardo Pau-Llosa
      • Christ in the Wilderness: The Hen (1954)
    • Charlotte Pence
      • Heredity
    • Ross Peters
      • Proctors Hall Promontory
    • Lizzy Petersen
      • “52 Yellow Cat”
    • Jeffrey Peterson
      • Illeism
      • Epicurism
    • Leanna Petronella
      • Beached
    • Nicholas Pierce
      • Valediction at Lake Livingston
    • Saara Myrene Raappana
      • Heroic Origin
    • Doug Ramspeck
      • Smoke Dress
    • Chelsea Rathburn
    • Mira Rosenthal
      • People Bring Us Flowers
    • Austin Segrest
      • Björklunden
    • Amanda Shires
      • Autumn Tritina
    • R. T. Smith
      • Kettle
      • Photo of Frost
    • Gary Soto
      • Untitled
      • Untitled
    • Lisa Russ Spaar
    • Eleanor Stanford
      • Lepidoptera of the Diamond Highlands
    • Kathryn Starbuck
      • Roofless
    • Rawdon Tomlinson
      • Each time I break
    • Pimone Triplett
    • Jay Udall
      • Where It Begins
    • Laura Van Prooyen
      • Head of Clover
    • Ryan Vine
      • Altar Boy
    • Mark Wagenaar
      • Appalachian Vowels
    • G. C. Waldrep
      • Tübingen
    • Chet Weise
      • Endless Summer
    • Ryan Wilson
      • Lemons
    • Catherine Wing
      • Sea-Change
    • Cecilia Woloch
      • La Mer