Poems listed in order of appearance
Opening Poems
Michael Horvitz
For Jihmye
Ilya Kaminsky
We Lived Happily During the War
Maria Mazzioti Gillan
How Far Away Are the Dead
Steve Kowit
Pests
Brandon Cesmat
Moon Whet
Ellen Bass
Late Love
Harry Griswold
New World Symphony
Diane Wakoski
Wanting to Wear His Tweed Jacket
Gary Winters
midnight people
Dolores Young
Pipa
Deborah Paes de Barros
La Rubia
Alan Archer
Yellow Leaves Walking
Alexandra Ximena Milla
i pray[ed] for detox
Bernard Katz
Prestidigitation
Claudia Poquoc
My True Tongue
c. a. lindsay
Cuyamaca Peak
Clifton King
Omaha Beach
Connie Petersen
That USA
Brad McMurrey
Dissidents
Carol Heasley
The Music Box
Al Zolynas
Holding the Mystery
Lois P. Jones
The Spam We Wish Were True
John Rubio
Love Poem
Diane Cambern
(tanka)
Jenny Minniti-Shippey
Naming Lyndsey’s Unborn
MK Kellog
Cacti
Don Ruch
Sweet Anticipation
Bobbe Van Hise
You Come To Mind
Chad Stroup
The Last Sane Man Alive
Trish Dugger
Life on the Edge
Robert O’Sullivan Schleith
Misfortune (Be Here Now)
Francine Rockey
I can’t stop thinking about your ears!
Sharon Elise
(untitled)
Jon Wesick
Divine Breath
Judith Pacht
Babel
Andy Palasciano
Sea Monsters
Anne Wilson
Driving the Desert
Dan Adams
A Father’s Son
Karen Stromberg
Heart Full of Birds
John Webb
Remembering Tinker Bell
Ruth Nolan
Ochoa’s Farm, Thermal, California Temperature: 122
Gordon Johnson
Black Caddy lament
Iolanda Scripa
Silent Rust
Rodley Monk
The Mongrel in the Garden
Una Nichols Hynum
In September
Dick Eiden
Funhouse
Maria F. Stefanic
the dancer
Jesus Gonzalez
Seriousness of Humor
Diana Griggs
How Can We Not Imagine Tomorrow
Terry Spohn
something
Dionne Blaha
Green Grass
Elsa Orozco
Flowers of a Vietnam Field
Tomás Gayton
To The Graduating Class
Katie Farris
Her Mother’s Mother Was A Machete
Jim Moreno
jillian
Sam Hamod
Hijra
Cheri M. Bentley-Buckman
Coachella Valley Wildflowers
E. Eric Matus
Super Moon
Jane Mushinsky
Sunday Morning
Keith McCleary
Cape Buffalo Marathon
Joan Stevens
October
Tom Somers
Mostar
Barbara Deming
Broken at Wounded Knee
Anna Zappoli
Words and Colors
Kenneth Buhr
These words
Mai Lon Gittelsohn
Artifacts of a Chinese-American Childhood
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Mother’s Love
Paul Colaluca
Paper Airplanes
Sue Kulpa
We Sit at a Small Table
Tanya Alexis Notkoff
Self-Similitude (or Row, Row, Row Your Boats!)
Joseph D. Milosch
Where Do Cities Come From
Christina Burress
The Blue Heron
Ann Tweedy
Parting Song For My Temporary City
Dewey Reeves
This Might Be Self-Indulgent Like Bukowski
Carrie Moniz
Country Music
Angie Vorhies
Giving Thanks
Amber Momoh
Cake Bake
Bobbie Jean Bishop
Clothesline
Curran Jeffery
The Eyes Of The Mothers
HF Reeves
Easy Rider
Diane Funston
Seasoning
Roger Funston
Monday Mornin’ Dreamin’
Donna LaMare Dellinger
Stranded
Arnon Hurwitz
Avoid The Noid
Kari Wergeland
San Gorgonio
Dahryn Bell
Hatha Yoga
Ali Murphy
Easter Sunday
Dylan Barmmer
Parts Of You
Stephen McDonald
Family Photos
Erin Rodoni
Across a Low Table
Kate Harding
Third Street
DHR Fishman
Cannery Row
Rae Rose
Certain Types of Friends
William Harry Harding
To The City That Saved Her
R. J. Black
The San Diego River
Heather Fowler
What Happens Next, Rewind the Tape
David Clark
Where Can It Be Seen?
Matthew Potter
Miss Omaha
Rachel Gellman
Mother Loses Child
Deborah Allbritain
Affetuoso
Sharla Burwick
(untitled)
R. T. Sedgwick
Summer’s Over
Mary Lenore Quigley
Dark Angel
Paul Szymanski
Two Lines Plus Meaningless Sonnet
Marion Martin Dickes
Why
Seretta Martin
Quartered
Chance Austin-Brecher
Mishegas
Anne-Marye Risher Dytewski
Here to There
Joseph Hight
Waiting For You
R.D. Skaff
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
Michael L. Evans
One Poet’s Life, in Four Acts
Amanda Smith
As A Novel
Susan Platt
Renewed Friendships
Michael Burton
On the Universe’s Horizon
Gwyn Henry
Childhood’s Kitchen
Marte Broehm
Pandora
Sylvia Levinson
Ninth-Grade Dance
Jake Kelsoe
I am what am I
Elizabeth Yahn Williams
Grand Piano
Kathleen E. Peckham
On The First Day of Summer, 2011
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Memoir ̶ a poem in two forms
Sharron McCuistion-Lewis
Once
Joanne D’Amato
If memories
Matthew Villaluz
why we dance
Hope Meek
Color Me Cuba
Kerry Keys
Her Majesty
Sonata Paliulyte
Birth Of An Angel
Nick Arnold
Endless, Nameless
Margaret S. McKerrow
My Gardens
Casey Derengowski
Never Mock the Poet
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
Keeping a Count
Alejandra Proaño
On how a poem is done
Barb Huntington
Leaving Ocean Beach
Billie Dee
Black-Eyed Peas
Kimberly Sherman
Dale Poem #7
Ron Salisbury
Carmen
Silvia Piquet
Word Play
Fred Longworth
Advice to Self in Guise of Other
Sandra Bender
You Know You Want Me
Diane Gage
Fresh Griefs Call Up Old Ones
Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Lorca
Kath Abela Wilson
wild
Regina Morin
Mona Lisa @ Costco
Wanda Jackson
Starbucks Morning
Lenny Lianne
“But Boris, Darling”
Masashi Musha
Power Outage in San Diego
Sandy Carpenter
Crash
Joan Gerstein
Walk in the Woods
Bruce Gorden
Seal Sunning Itself
Lis Albright Ratnavira
Today . . .
Kristen Scott
Above Timberlines
Mary Leary
moon-girl-doll-crickets
Peggy Goings
Everyone Needs a Little Woods
Ahlia Demas
Buoy Boy
Yellapu Mukunda Rama Rao
Millennium Children
Ishion Hutchinson
Walking with Atlas
Megan Webster
Promise
Nancy Stein Sandweiss
No Snakes
Linda Engel Amundson
On the Line
Cherie Kephart
Way Out
Marlys Collom
The Belly Dancers
Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo
Three a.m.
Marianne S. Johnson
Even the moon is dusty
Sharon Laabs
Residuals of a Dinner Party
Jen Lagedrost
Ode To My Father’s Wallet
C.V. Will
View From Here
Anita Curran Guenin
The Ghosts of Johnsonville
Linda Hutchison
Househunting
Janet Foster
Icicle
Nathan Weedmark
Zero to Sixty
Kayla Krut
Second Hymn to Apollo
Kirsten Quinn
The First Time I Saw Her Play
William Hawkes
Prayer Toward The Birth Of Vision
Susan Rogers
Falling Butterflies
Oriana
Everlasting
Teresa Gonzalez-Lee
Father Son Spirit
Featured Poet
Marge Piercy
In time or out of it
What my mother gave me
Ashes in their places
The body in the hot tub
Agitated cat sees trouble coming
Pulsión Frontera / Border Beat
Bilingual Section
Encore (additional poems)
Ellen Bass
Iguana at the Wild Life Refuge
Donna LaMare Dellinger
Dancing with Her
Diane Wakoski
When You Open
Ilya Kaminsky
To Live
Katie Farris
The Politics of Metamorphosis
Jon Wesick
Polar Bears Make Bad Neighbors
Ali Murphy
My Father’s Car
Christina Burress
Interstate 5
Terry Spohn
I wrestle with a map
Maria Mazzioti Gillan
So Much That Is Not Right With the World
R. T. Sedgwick
Ode to The Pencil
Al Zolynas
Lines
Lois P. Jones
The Time Traveler’s Postscript
Tomás Gayton
From Bolero To The Blues
Francine Rockey
Arizona Flurries
Sonata Paliulyte
Variation On A Theme The Fox And The Prince
Ruth Nolan
What Rises
Dionne Blaha
What
Sam Hamod
How Cannonball Adderly Died
Kathleen E. Peckham
Still Life
Dick Eiden
Ups and Downs
Karen Stromberg
How I Want to Die
Carol Heasley
The Tango
Gordon Johnson
Fried liver
Alan Archer
Bathroom Etiquette
Trish Dugger
Because I Always Tell the Truth
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
To a Daughter Gone West
Harry Griswold
Dislocated
John Webb
Lady of La Mancha
Diane Cambern
Gem
Deborah Paes de Barros
Van Gogh’s Haystacks
Ron Salisbury
Vacation
Sharon Elise
You Lookin for Jesus?
Fred Longworth
Father’s Day
Mary Lenore Quigley
Home ̶ Where the Heart Lives
Bernard Katz
Madam Butterfly
Erin Rodoni
Somewhere Else’s Weather
Peggy Goings
The Boardwalk
E. Eric Matus
San Diego Botanical Garden
Kerry Keys
The Axe
Lenny Lianne
Ars Poetica
Mary Leary
I am listening to John Cage
Dylan Barmmer
Pilgrimage
Stephen McDonald
Catch and Release
Ishion Hutchinson
After the Hurricane
Kirsten Quinn
Running Away from Home
Kate Harding
After Midnight
Don Ruch
(untitled)
Claudia Poquoc
A Murder of Crows
Kenneth Buhr
Fantasy in C
Megan Webster
Valentine’s Day
Dolores Young
Life of a Trunk
Paul Colaluca
Metamorphosis Delayed
Marte Broehm
That Edge of South Lake Tahoe
Chad Stroup
On A Meathook
Dan Adams
John Doe
Amanda Smith
Paper Lanterns
Sandy Carpenter
Blinded
Linda Hutchison
And I Digress
Michael L. Evans
Hearing Our Song, Forty-Three Years Later
Iolanda Scripa
The Return From Exile
Rachel Gellman
mourning song
Rodley Monk
Note from the Editor
R.D. Skaff
Our Journey, Johanna
Seretta Martin
Photo Session
Una Nichols Hynum
Poem for Amador
Ellen Bass
Black Snakes Mating
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
These Things I Knew
Silvia Piquet
Dusk
Robert O’Sullivan Schleith
Cocktail Party
Maria Mazzioti Gillan
We Need to Have Things We Believe In
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Bag Lady
Brandon Cesmat
In the Combustible Ecstasy
Bruce Gorden
twenty and then some
Joan Gerstein
20/20 Vision
Kristen Scott
B.B. King at Midnight
Sharron McCuistion-Lewis
An Idea
Matthew Villaluz
Peace Corps, Morocco
Hope Meek
Two-Part, Late-Life Love Poem
Mai Lon Gittelsohn
He Was a Quiet Man
Deborah Allbritain
It’s Like Nothing Else Matters
Rae Rose
Rope
Gary Winters
tanka sequence
Nancy Stein Sandweiss
Eight Years Old
Clifton King
Giverny Garden
Heather Fowler
Man Woman Sparks
Barb Huntington
At Cuyamaca
Alexandra Ximena Milla
there are some good ones too
Anne Wilson
Pictures From San Benito County
Curran Jeffery
Tribute To Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jenny Minniti-Shippey
For The Tower
Gwyn Henry
Singular Vision
Diane Wakoski
Reinventing the Measure
Oriana
I Loved Science for the Wrong Reason
