Poetry Quarterly

Poetry Quarterly is published 4 times a year. Our spring edition is usually lighter. Each edition is edited by our primary editor, and he/she may be assisted by a guest editor and/or ghost editors.

Our website serves as a companion to our print journal. Inclusion in Poetry Quarterly is very competitive. We can only accept a small percentage of the poems submitted.

Submissions are now open. We rarely close submissions but we do occasionally. There is no predetermined schedule.

Saugus

I couldn’t find it, broken underfoot, the head
of Saugus or the soggy burlap bag of arms
I lost before he turned on me.

Saugus tapped his cane on the shell of a drum,
looking in disbelief—how could anyone lose
a giant crimson bag of arms?

For years I carried water to the women—I never lived it
down. I saw how the village looked at me
until I cut them off—my own arms falling to the ground.

Saugus took my arms, clapping my hands
in a mocking gesture. He used them
as a back scratcher, while the women laughed—

he sucked the marrow from my stumps
and combed my juices through his hair
like some great red-crested bird.

I wept in the village circle, all of my tears
dotting the drums into the morning
when I discovered Saugus’ head and my arms were missing.

Glenn Lyvers

Anne Champion
Benjamin Sutton
Carol Ayer
Christie Isler
Christine Hamm
Crystalee Calderwood
Curt Eriksen
Cynthia Banks
Daniel Casey
Dawn Schout
Felicia A. Rivers
Frank Possemato
Gary Bloom
Greg Billingham
Helen R. Peterson
Hugh Fox
Irena Pasvinter
J. J. Steinfeld
J. R. Salling
J Sackett Jr.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jesse DeLong
johnmac the bard
Kara Ferguson
Kristine Muslim
M. Blake
Meaghan Elliott
Mia Cartmill
Michael Meyerhofer
Peycho Kanev
Roberto Christiano
Sharron Singleton

Our Spring 2010 issue is now completed. You can view the issue for a limited time by visiting the “Issues” page. We will begin taking orders for the printed version soon..

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The following poems and poets are featured in “Carried Over.” This publication is no longer publicly accessible.

Contents

Show me the way… 1
• All Bones Jane Hammons
• Your Father’s Forgotten Razor J.J. Steinfeld
• In a Top Drawer Shaindel Beers
• The Whole History of Art William Doreski
• What If Einstein Was Right? Carol Ayer
• Get In Line Paul Handley

Digging roots… 13
• Oleander Snow Rhoda Greenstone
• Canal Run, Ice Forming Martin H. Dickinson
• Dandelions Arguing Music Gwyn McVay
• Needed In Train, Song, and Light Helen Losse
• The Distance Shows Us How John Abbott
• Nobody’s Ponies Heather Nicaise
• Due North Joel Allegretti
• Birdcalls Are Red Also
// or Describing Red Carolyn Srygley-Moore
• Facing East Judi Brannan Armbruster

Pass it on… 27
• Fathers Day Robert Lietz
• Dining Afterward Robert Lietz
• Noodling Brian Wilkins
• Bought Broke And Be Damned Jason Huskey
• The Land Surveyor Geoff Munsterman
• Thunder Mountain Geoff Munsterman
• The Trace Allen Hoey
• My Son’s Debut Jeff Vande Zande
• Surfaces Jeff Vande Zande

Knocking on doors… 49
• White Lines Pointing West Laurie Junkins
• Loafing Michael Neal Morris
• Questions of Distance Haunt Me Paul Scot August
• One More Cast Paul Scot August
• Fleeting Gary Beck
• Contrasts Gary Beck
• Hwy 99 North of Aurora Ted Jean
• Memory John F. McMullen
• Exaltation Michael Bazzett

Peeling back the covers… 61
• Wet Dream Requiem Rhoda Greenstone
• We Travel Intimate Christina Lovin
• Panes Christina Lovin
• Flies Carol Gore
• Bug Juice Anthony Buccino
• Marriage In September Jeff Vande Zande
• Standing On a Street Corner Brandon Wallace
Frayed laces… 75
• Seeing Hayden In The Madhouse Allen Hoey
• Runner Brian Wilkins
• The Author As Maiden
Aunt Baboon Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
• New Sharon, Iowa Shaindel Beers
• There Peter Schwartz
• Payton Falls John Lambremont, Sr.

Into the wind… 83
• Your Order is Complete Gwyn McVay
• Reading Cormac McCarthy Allen Hoey
• Dog Star Christina Lovin
• His Heartbeat John Grey
• Bright Heroes Ben Nardolilli
• Yelling At The Wind Chris G. Vaillancourt
• One Night Stay Howard Good
• An Increase in “Voiced” Prejudice KJ Hannah Greenberg

Empty chairs… 95
• The Last Breath
of Everett Ruess Allen Hoey
• Burning Love Christina Lovin
• Fledge Christina Lovin
• After Hours T. Marie Nantais
• The Patient Suzan L. Wiener
• One Breath Junie Moon
• In Her Left Hand Charles Musser
• What He Said Jeff Vande Zande
• Missing the Whirling Dervishes James Norcliffe
• At the Westminster Dog Show Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
• Billy Collins Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
• Almost a Horror Story William Doreski
• Garden District, 1925 and 1993 Mimi Vaquer
• Letter Found in a Deer Blind Charles Musser
• Alternative Therapies Stacey Lynn Brown
• Funereal John Lambremont, Sr.

Congratulations to the poets who made it!