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Summer 2004

From the Editor
Thom Didato

E.L. Doctorow
Jonathan Ames
interviews

"Like Love"
fiction by
Karen Shepard

"Jnun in the Age of Metal"
fiction by
Susan Daitch

"Valet Parking"
fiction by
Geoffrey Becker

"Fox Hunting"
fiction by
Frances Sherwood

"Deneb"
"Praesepe"
"White Hole"
poetry by
Mark Cunningham

"frequently asked questions"
"oh juliet"
poetry by
Daphne Gottlieb

"North of Big Sur"
"Cypress Tree"
"Island or House"
poetry by
Michelle Valladares

"The Poet"
"Under"
"Birthing"
poetry by
Katey Nicosia

"Skater Cats"
"The Blue Boa"
"The Muse"
paintings by
Jeremiah Stansbury

"Studio Sink"
"Johnson Laundromat"
paintings by
Catharine Balco

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Cypress Trees

It is the leaning I look at twice
defying gravity
right angle.

Old sailors with bent backs,
gnarled fingers, towering
on the edge of cliffs
towards the Pacific.
Shaped by wind and mist.
Their leaves are fists,
sturdy and clinging.
Rocks for neighbors.
Gulls rest in branches.

In the way we hold two thoughts
cypress tree / sea

Michelle Yasmine Valladares's poems have been published by The Women’s Review of Books, Global City Review, and 7 Carmine. She has others forthcoming in The North American Review and Risen From the East: An Anthology. She is currently seeking a publisher for her recently completed work Nortada, The North Wind.

Valladares holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches at the City College of New York and the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, close to the sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From our
poetry archive

"Old Bardstown"
Ellen Hagan
Issue 10 -
Spring/Summer 2003

"Who Invited the Monkey to Omen's Party"
Arisa White
Issue 11 - Spring 2004

"Ballad of the Strong Man in New York"
Suzanne Burns
Issue 6 -
Spring/Summer 2002