BMR

Giuseppe Agosta of Barking, Essex, England
"A Minimum of Truth"
"Some Lies"

Allegra Blake of Mt. Pleasant, MI
"psalm"
"The River Nowhere on this Earth"

Ute Carson of Galveston, TX
"Success"

Jane Cassady of Syracuse, NY
"There is a Fine Line between Birdwatching and Hallucination"

Phillip Henry Christopher of Indianapolis, IN
"Wartime and Everyday Blues"

Grace Connolly of New York, NY
"The World"

Jack Conway of Assonet, MA
"Satellites are Orbiting the Room"

Robert Cooperman of Denver, CO
"The End of the Line: Denver, Colorado, September 11, 2001"

Hal J. Daniel, III of Greenville, NC
"Woodies"

M. Ana Diz of New York, NY
"Body"
"Leash"

Ed Galing of Hatboro, PA
"Double Take"

Nancy Gauquier of Santa Cruz, CA
"Desperation's Children"
"Precarious"

Abraham Gibson of Chicago, IL
"walking the dog"

Stephanie Weller Hanson of Falcon Heights, MN
"Monet: the cataracts"

Anthony G. Herles of Poughkeepsie, NY
"Stiltwalking"

Robert K. Johnson of Needham, MA
"Seen on the Sidewalk"

Les Keress of Hoffman Estates, IL
"In the Autumn of Desire"

Michael Keshigian of Londonderry, NH
"Landlord"

J.L. Kubicek of Lake Crystal, MN
"Emily"

Jon Matthewson of Middletown Springs, VT
"Gray Man's Response"

Katerina Mestre of Cologne, Germany
"Russian Melancholia"

Christoph Meyer of Danville, OH
"At the Funeral I Didn't Attend"
"Echo!"

Mike Monahan of San Diego, CA
"Is There Life After the War?"

Edward J. Rielly of Westbrook, ME
untitled (3 lines)
untitled (3 lines)

Charles P. Ries of Milwaukee, WI
"How to Land a Man"

Michael D. Riley of Lancaster, PA
"The Old Admiral, Cape May, N.J."

David J. Rothman of Crested Butte, CO
"For Alice at 40"

Gerald Ryan of Roselle, IL
"Elaine at the Liffey"

Michael Salcman of Baltimore, MD
"Cat's Cradle"
"The Flemish Gallery at the Met"

David Steele of Denver, CO
"and the breeze swept the city"

David Stone of Baltimore, MD
"Deuterium Measures"

Paul Truttman of Vacaville, CA
"For Eyes to Read"

Philip A. Waterhouse of Sonoma, CA
"Quick Study"

Gerald Zipper of New York, NY
"In the Ink"

Names in bold are winners of the
Autumn 2006 poetry contest.

Cover art:
"In Search of Turtle Brittania"
by Allison Wire (Yorktown, VA)


Art in this issue by"
Kristen Kimmel (New York, NY)
Melody Sherosky (Troy, MT)
Allison Wire (Yorktown, VA)


Features:

Letters & Notes
Our editor responds to letters from Kim Tipton, Brian Morrisey, and Ed Galing. Our notes section mentions recent deaths in the small press community and discusses poetry contests with themes.

Interview
with Joseph Verrilli by Charles P. Ries

Reviews/Listings
Come Here Cowboy: poems of war by Spiel
A Discreet Menagerie by Mitchell Marco
Dream Big, Work Harder by Rebecca Schumejda
14thSt.Sta. Founditems by Mark Sonnenfeld
Goldfish Follies by Ed Galing
Interview with Todd Moore by Neal Wilgus
a pamphlet4 kirby by Mark Sonnenfeld
A Rum Do by Iavn Wallace
Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech
Shadows on the Wall by Ed Galing
SkeEZix by Mark Sonnenfeld
Brooklyn! #54
Other Investigations Vol.1, Issue 1
Over the Transom #16
Poesy XXXIII: the international issue
What I Did on My Summer Vacation by Christoph Meyer
Harp All Made of Gold (Audio) by Klyd Watkins
9 poets alive: The Radio Show (Audio)