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Gerald Stern
Five poems by Gerald Stern.


POETRY
Christopher Buckley
Michael Burkard
Jeff Friedman
Ross Gay
Jack Gilbert This marks an author's first online publication
Linda Gregg
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Joan Larkin
Dorianne Laux
Jan Heller Levi
Anne Marie Macari
Ed Ochester
Alicia Ostriker
Kathleen Peirce This marks an author's first online publication
Peter Richards
Ira Sadoff
Jean Valentine
Arthur Vogelsang This marks an author's first online publication
Judith Vollmer
Anne Waldman
Peter Waldor
Michael Waters This marks an author's first online publication
 
Essay
"The Final Vocabulary of Gerald Stern" by David Rigsbee.

Book Review
"Save the Last Dance" by Gerald Stern—Book Review, by David Rigsbee.

Judith Vollmer

Judith Vollmer is the author of four collections of poetry including, most recently, Reactor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Vollmer co-edits the poetry journal 5 AM and lives in Pittsburgh.
 


Port of Entry


    The world breathes
its generous display: You can have this! And this!
Look mama, a fish tail! a child cries at the icy
seafood window, and in the blip before hearing
her mother's Yes! she's gone, time
is silk, burning, eyes out of nowhere open petals, pages
—she's through, she's peeking
onto the tip of the flat-wavy universe,
a world rushes forward and up through
her feet, palms & fingertips.
Ecstasy
move us, each first time.

 

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