GREY SPARROW, Summer 2011, Issue 9

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CONTENTS
Fall, 2010
 
 
 
POETRY 
 
Our National Treasure: Robert Pinsky
Presidential and Pulitzer Prize Poet Robert Pinsky
is the Sparrow's guest for our National Treasure Series.
 
Ode to Meaning

Selected poems from "Both Sides of the Niger," a new Grey Sparrow book with a  release date of September, 2011, by Andrew Kaufman:
Wind
Children of the Forest
Drumming
Cafe Baobab
Grease
 
Untitled Poem 
Meadowmount School - Westport, New York 
First Wind
Three poems by Diana Arterian
  
A Love Song to London
Because I am Leaving 

Prince of Persephone

White

The Photographer  

Four poems by Lily Bax

   

Vignette 009

Vignette 015 

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

 

Blue Notes

Looking Back

To a Small Child Holding a Balloon

Early morning sky, brimming

     effervesce, eager

Four poems by M.J. Iuppa

 

The Eve of the Wedding

Beautiful Things

The Parting Gift

by Thompson Boling
[Released, November, 2010]

 

Blue Notes

Looking Back

To a Small Child Holding a Balloon

Early mroning sky, brimming

  effervesce, eager

Four poems by M.J. Iuppa 

 

POETRY REVIEW

 

 

A Review of "Where I Live

New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 "

by Maxine Kumin, Copyright 2010,
WW. Norton & Co. Inc. 

 

A Review of "Approaching: Poems of Brazil"
by Hugh Fox, copyright 2011, Grey Sparrow
by Poet John Bennett
 

 

FLASH

 

Jake Without Pants  

by Kathryn Burak

 

A Recipe for 21st Century Loneliness,

     Served Recession

by James Rawbone

 

The Specific Gravity of Balloons

by Eric Howerton

  

Between Red Rock and a Place in Peru

by Roland Goity

 

Take it With You 
by Michelle Reale
 
Killing Me Softly
by Sayuri Yamada 

[Released, October 31, 2010] 

 

 

 

 

Art and Photography Editor Ajay Prasannan

Copy Annam Manthiram

Student Editor Kristin Rokanen

Chief Editor, Diane Smith