YAY US!

IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT  ! BARBARA CULLY ! BRINGS US !  CHRISTINA LOUISE SMITH ! HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG ! and new ! MANAGING EDITORS ! DREW KREWER and MEAGAN LEHR ! HAPPY SATURDAY !  +V.

Barbara Cully is the author of Desire Reclining (Penguin, 2003), The New Intimacy(Penguin, 1997), which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition, andShoreline Series (Kore Press, Tucson, 1997).  A new collection of poems titled That Place Where is due out from Kore Press in fall of 2010.  Barbara is co-editor of two textbooks, Entry Points (Longman, 1999) and Writing as Revision (Pearson, 2002).  She is a contributing editor for Cue. She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Arizona and also in the Prague Summer Program and online for Kaplan University. Read more of her poetry on line at SOFTBLOW.

DREW KREWER

from Ars Warholica

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You were a boy with the right

to weep and wept

MEAGAN LEHR

from Men In Correspondence—

The traffic shakes her nerves in blanch light.               Nevers, I’m leaving yous.  

CHRISTINA LOUISE SMITH

Warm Carnivores

In the dry river where trees tangle

mmmmmrebar and skeleton leaves

mmmmmmmmake screens from their roots,

HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG

Waving

You replace the sky with fingerings, your shirt, your regardlessness, that’s enough.  Bring delicateness back, a light white shirt, a buttonhole.  If it’s wrong to ascribe feelings then you don’t know what you’re missing you don’t know you keep doing and undoing what you’ve done.  Come now little comet,