contributors' notes, or notes that were a mishmash of fanciful and real information. Deranged pleas for funds, ... read like this: Sweat spurted / as he struggled. / Blast and damn / marijuana anyhow. My favorite notes ... manuscript submitted to Poetry Northwest, but the large volume of submissions makes that impossible. The fact ...

Page 253 from Issue 79 the rejection of any actual practice of poetry in the interest of another ... old age as remembered by an observer (William Power, in My Scotland, cited by Hugh MacDiar­ mid in ... another horse- Bind up my wounds." His voice rose to a howl. He thrust and slashed at imaginary ...

Page 255 from Issue 80 the honesty, the commoner. My knees hurt from my life and playing soccer- ... poetry is solid, four-square; despite his eye for clouds, natural writing and the filigree in ... lace-making, Moss is never delicate, witty or fanciful when dealing with subjects that he might treat instead ...

mannequins too, with nipples the size of the Hope Diamond. Nibbles my nephew says, indicating his desire to ... West. But she's skeptical-such felicitous coincidence. Should I prove it, unfurl my wallet, ... judah, Ras Tafari, Jamaica's Living God.) Alas, the hotel map I extract instead from my ...

pass itself off for poetry." He agreed in part, then went on, "But if you mean the ... my awareness that a new academicism, at least as rigid as the old, was hardening into place. Enslin ... although there are times for fancy dress balls, too." Whatever our shared enthusiasm for Williams, ...