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Spring 2019 Number 46


Cover of BPR 46, a painting of a woman's bare back with illustrated birds superimposed.Featured Poet

Toi Derricotte

Winner of the Collins Prize

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Contents

  • Featured Poet

    Toi Derricotte

    Lauren K. Watel

    • “Houses for the Heart to Live In": Finding a Home in the Work of Toi Derricotte

    Parneshia Jones

    • A Humble and Savory Joy: An Interview with Toi Derricotte
  • Featured Essay

    Chad Davidson

    • On Ruins
  • Poems
    • Megan Arlett
      • Lorca and I Have Brunch
    • Ned Balbo
      • To My Birth Father’s Compass
    • Jack B. Bedell
      • Fall, Light
      • Mestayer
    • Annette C. Boehm
      • Last Letter to Cassini
      • and Jesus says, on a night like this
    • Audrey Bohanan
      • Counter-Boys
      • Horse Farm in Winter
      • Streamer Handle Grips in the Wind
    • Paul Bone
      • Apologies
      • Ozark Pastoral
    • Gaylord Brewer
      • Solution to a Thursday Morning of Little Possibility: Frying Bacon
      • Moth
    • Andrea Carter Brown
      • Salade niçoise, In Memoriam
    • Brandon Jordan Brown
      • O Tired Man We Climb the Ladder Slowly
    • Nickole Brown
      • A Jonah
    • Christopher Buckley
      • Cynical
      • More or Less
    • Maia Carlson
      • Crown Shyness
    • Michael Chitwood
      • Barn
      • On the Air
      • Said and Done
    • Cally Conan-Davies
      • Mourning Cloak Butterfly
      • The World Is Simple
    • Flower Conroy
      • A Room in the Woods
    • Kevin Cutrer
      • Your Father’s Hands
    • Kate Daniels
      • The Punchbowl: An Elegy
    • Edward Derby
      • Minor Gods
    • Kathy Fagan
      • The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs
    • Kitty Forbes
      • Endangered
    • Rebecca Foust
      • The Unexploded Ordnance Bin
    • Mag Gabbert
      • New Year
    • Stephen Gibson
      • On a Literary Postcard of Tennyson at the 42nd St. Library Gift Shop
    • D. Gilson
      • A Crown of Autopsies
    • Regan Good
      • The White Cows of the Cheviots: Chillingham Castle
    • Debora Greger
      • Persephone in a Parking Lot
      • La Serenissima, Florida
    • Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
      • Space City
    • Beth Gylys
      • Made Bed
    • Joseph Harrison
      • Runaway Blimp
      • The Retreat
    • Zach Harrod
      • Jarfly
    • Henry Hart
      • Shakespeare Puppets
      • Student Response to Cornelis Van Haarlem’s Massacre of the Innocents
    • Hastings Hensel
    • Ron Houchin
      • Pinching the Moon
    • Carrie Jerrell
    • Julie Kane
      • Arson in Knockmullane: 24 December 1846
    • Robert Lee Kendrick
      • Annuals
    • Vandana Khanna
    • David Kirby
      • Poverty, Mon Amour
    • Amy Lemmon
      • Man and Widow
      • Anatomical Life Drawing for the Illustrator
      • Creature Comfort
    • Alexis Levitin translating Ruy Belo
      • Acids and Oxides
    • Ananda Lima
      • Photograph of Water as a Mass Noun
      • Seven American Sentences
      • Inflight Entertainment while the Doomsday Seed Bank Is Breached
    • Sandy Longhorn
      • Sisters Grown Distant
    • Rose McLarney
    • Claire McQuerry
      • Fall Catalog Ekphrasis
    • Sandra Meek
      • Still Life with the Coming Extinction of the Southern African Donkey
    • Matt Miller
      • Said the River When I Asked for Her Song
      • When I Am My Brother Jon Fishing with Deron
      • Bumming a Smoke from Eve on a Porch in Pauwtucketville
    • Jenny Molberg
      • Epistle from the Funambulist Hospital for Invisibility
      • Turbine
    • Mary Moore
      • Fly Fishing
      • Morpho didius
      • What the Ants Write
    • Jessica Murray
      • Readymade
    • Charlotte Muzzi
      • Moving
    • Nathaniel Nelson
    • January Gill O’Neil
      • What’s Left
    • Deborah Pope
    • Arra L. Ross
      • Excerpt from The Day of the Child
    • Jane Satterfield
      • Crow Hour
      • Ode to the Eastern Gray Squirrel
    • Carrie Shipers
      • Letter I May Never Finish
    • Catherine Staples
      • From Souls Rising
    • N. S. Thompson
      • Remembering Cape Charles
      • 19th Century Nudes
    • N. S. Thompson translating Andrea Gibellini
      • Document
      • Phoenicians and Their Oriental Aspect
      • Element
    • N. S. Thompson translating Théophile Gautier
      • Funeral Pyres and Tombs
    • Natalie Louise Tombasco
      • The Girl Who Was an Artichoke
      • Underground Fantasy
    • D. C. Turner
      • Rememory
    • Alison Umminger
      • Someone Else’s Utopia
    • Sally Van Doren
      • Further Up the Road
    • Sidney Wade
      • Fabric
    • Chelsea Wagenaar
      • My Sister Sketches Her Anorexia
    • Sara Wallace
      • Highway 35
      • Ars Poetica
    • Amie Whittemore
      • Kissing Meditation
    • Terri Witek
      • The Eurydice Game
    • William Wright
      • The Child