NAPALM HEALTH SPA : REPORT 2009

Twentieth Anniversary Issue

 

p o e t r y   s t i m u l u s   p a c k a g e

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Ali Zarrin

Found Poem: Camp Speicher, Iraq

For Allen

 

Andy Clausen

Now We Won

 

Ariel Holden

The Filth Bucket

The old Villa Bella

 

Eliot Katz

Bail Out What?

 

Miho Kinnas

My Mother

On Buddhism

"Mama, Obento Bako"

 

Jack Hirschman

The George Oppen Arcane

The Friends Arcane

 

Lisa Birman

if everything were the Baltic Sea

of imagining

by daylight and not

what falls away (and where

 

Antler

So Far, So Good

Hard to Believe

 

Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner (Flying Words Project)

Soft Boiled Egg

 

Ingrid Swanberg

Cazadero

wraparound

threshold

Mother,

 

Prospero Saiz

Proem To Southern Athabascan Chant

 

Ron Rodriguez

Prelude in Boricua

Candombe

Mulatta of the Antilles

LA MAÑANA/THE MORNING

 

Randy Roark

excerpts from LIT: From the Foreword

from Part I: Notes from The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume I:

From Prehistory to 1800

Beowolf Faces Death

Shortly Before His Death, Geoffrey Chaucer Comes to His

Senses and Reclaims at Least The Parliament of Birds

When Love Ceased to Sing

What Love Said in Reply (for Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)

Poem for the Moon

The Difficult Birth of Edmund Spenser’s Shadow

John Wilmot’s Lament: What Miracles We Harmless Lovers Wrought,

Who Knew Not What We Loved Nor Why

Christopher Marlowe’s Notes for a New Faust

William Shakespeare Imitating Christopher Marlowe

John Donne’s Complaynt

Nocturne

John Milton Takes Refuge in a Buddhist Monastery

So Rare a White (for Edmund Waller, Anne Bradstreet, and Richard Lovelace)

I’ve Loved as I Have Loved (for John Dryden)

Before My Life Began (for Thomas Traherne)

Alexander Pope Shoots from the Hip

Unquiet Dreams under Passing Stars (for William Wordsworth)

Oblivion

Far-Of Lights, Glittering (for Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

The Hyacinth Bride (for Edward Fitzgerald)

The Mystery of What We’ve Been and Why We’ve

Suffered (for Matthew Arnold)

My Sister (for Dante Gabriel Rosetti)

The Idle Singer on an Empty Day (for William Morris)

Resurrection (for Ernest Dowson)

For Any He Had Not Yet Written (for Wilfred Owen)

The Grammar of Myth (for Robert Graves)

 

Katie Yates

on sound

cupcake truck

 

David Cope

Annum Lyrae:  January to March

above shattered

 

Carmen Bugan

The rook

Making wine

Summer

Light

Song of the Creatures

 

Sam Abrams

Mother Of A Trillion Orgasms

Did Robert Frost Ever Shit In The Woods?

 

Jeff Poniewaz

No More Jaguar Cats, Just Jaguar Cars

Pacific Life

 

Andre Codrescu

At The Laundromat: Story

 

James Ruggia

March 27, 2009

On Two lines by Gabirol

With Hopper and Reznikoff in Thailand

 

Lesléa Newman

First Love

The Wood Gatherer Speaks

 

Steve Silberman

Song at 4pm

Orphans

 

Genevieve Legacy

In Life After

 

Jim Cohn

Interview by Randy Roark

 

Sarah Peters

Progress is the Bo-Tox of Everything
Dear Futurists:

 

Thomas R. Peters, Jr.

nineteen eighty-one

nineteen eighty-seven
two-thousand

 

Suzi Kaplan Olmsted

Both Named Marge

 

Peter Marti

Solstice, Hawaii

Those Three Damn Words

“The Old Canceroo, They Call It...”

 

Marc Olmsted

Insecurity Wisdom

Recent L.A. visit

Commute

Calm abiding

“Old policies, nothing but cops…”

Monday morning Spring 2009

headaches in progress

ZEMO RAYS

 

Rob Geisen

unrequited abstinence

love wakes up

in a shit nightmare world of tomorrow without you

One Second Chance

 

Timothy Weigand

Yellow Walkman

One Time

 

Dan Munoz

Mist in view

My Danish grandma

 

Sky Smith

A Night in Bangkok with a Werewolf

 

Kevin Hayes

Invisible Presence

 

Brendan Kirk

observations written today

sun ap 19

 

 

 

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Jim Cohn, editor

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