BPR 44 | 2017

Spring 2017 Number 44


Cover of BPR 44 (2017).Featured Poet

Claribel Alegría

Winner of the Collins Prize

Stephen Kampa
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Contents

  • Featured Poet

    Claribel Alegría

    Carolyn Forché
    • Introduction
    • Preface to Flores del Volcan (Flowers from the Volcano)
    • Introduction to Saudade (Sorrow)
    Salvador Peralta and Gregory Fraser
    Laura Sonderman
  • Featured Essay

    Michael Theune and Bob Broad

    • Value Hunger: Feeding the Need for Assessment in Poetry
  • Poems
    • Kate Angus
    • Ned Balbo
      • Time’s Passage at Whiskey River
      • Fool’s Elegy
      • What Words Survive
      • Night Watch
      • Animal College
      • Gimpel the Adjunct
    • David Basilico
      • I Sit Atop a Compost Toilet
    • Anna Lena Phillips Bell
      • Overture
    • Michelle Boisseau
      • About Halfway Down the Page
    • Bruce Bond
      • Bone Flute
      • Belladonna
      • Nostalgia for the Infinite
    • Paul Bone
      • The River
    • Marianne Boruch
      • The Visit
    • David Bottoms
      • Little King Snake on the Prayer Porch
    • Joshua R. Butts
      • Hudson at Saugerties
    • Michael Chitwood
    • Clayton Adam Clark
      • Salvage: A Field Guide
    • Michael Collier
      • My Bishop
    • Rob Cook
      • Four Broken Ways to Pray
    • Daniel Corrie
      • Seedlings
    • Daniel DeVaughn
      • May Hawes
    • Eric Elshtain
      • In a warm sea
    • Nausheen Eusuf
    • Diamond Forde
      • The Right Words
    • Rebecca Foust
      • Autoportrait sans Moi-Même
    • Andrew Glaze
      • Rhinoceros
    • Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
      • The Romantics
    • J. P. Grasser
      • Hook Echo
      • Fetch
    • Juliana Gray
      • Lizzie Borden’s Pears
      • The Chauffeur’s Daughter Recalls Miss Borden
    • Eamon Grennan
      • Che Passa
      • Comeback with Swans
    • Lisa Hammond
      • I’m Not Really a Waitress
    • Jeffrey N. Johnson
      • Particle Search in D Minor
    • Madison Jones
      • Sparrows on a High Wire
    • Stephen Kampa
      • Dodo
      • The Quiet Boy
    • Sean Karns
      • The Man of Dirt Toils in the Laughter of His Wayward World
    • Brian Laidlaw
      • The Resurgence
      • The Reckoning Remedy
      • The Reckoning Rosary
      • [The Place I Love Is Burning]
    • Alexis Levitin translating Salgado Maranhão
      • Seal 9
      • Seal 10
    • Carey Link
      • Decoding the Colorless Puzzle
    • William Logan
      • The Age of Heroes
      • Reed Beds
      • Homage to an Army
      • D-Day, 2014
    • James Longenbach
      • Earthling
    • Angie Macri
      • Apples Like Roses
    • J. G. McClure
      • Nothing Will Be All Right, But Thank You Anyway
      • Self Portrait as Ego and Vehicle
    • John McKernan
      • Woman Screaming Against Angels
    • Leslie Adrienne Miller
      • Apophallation
      • What the Glossator Knows
      • The Glossator Realizes that Large Birds are Probably Unstable Signifiers
    • Matt W. Miller
      • Seborrhea
    • Tyler Mills
      • Hibakusha
    • Rachel Morgan
      • No One Can Own the Beach
      • Pietà
    • Burt Myers
      • Our House on Fire
    • Mark Neely
      • Bruce’s Mood
    • Kyle Norwood
      • A Scholar’s Vacation
    • Amy Pence
    • John Poch
      • Elegy for Mark Strand
    • Deborah Pope
      • Visiting Hours with My Grandmother
    • Terry Savoie
      • Chapel (1963)
    • Will Schutt translating Francesco Scarabicchi
      • “I carry words . . .”
      • Promenade
      • Incipit
      • A Half Wave
    • Tom Sleigh
      • My Tiger
      • Playbook
    • Barry Sternlieb
      • Cold Bearing
      • Sustenance
    • Zack Strait
      • Mantis
    • Jeffrey Thomson
      • Hotel California
    • Seth Brady Tucker
      • Countdown
    • Ellen Doré Watson
    • Charles Harper Webb
      • Rasa
    • Marcus Wicker
      • What I Won’t Say about My High-School Girlfriend
    • Allison Wilkins
      • Menagerie, Thasos Museum
    • Eleanor Wilner
      • To Bear Them Up
      • Intimations
      • The Phoenix Reflects on Its Peculiar Situation
      • What the Kite Sees
      • When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light