Fall/Winter 2020-2021: Volume XXII, Number 1

Valparaiso Poetry Review Fall-Winter 2020

Cover Art:
Jim Nutt (b. 1938)

a little light, a little dark, 1986
Colored Pencil on paper, 11 x 16 inches
Byron Lee and Josephine Luecke Ferguson Donated Fund
Brauer Museum of Art, 2011.05

Editor: Edward Byrne

Contributing Editor(s): Gregg Hertzlieb, Mark Wagenaar

All
  • All
  • Poetry
  • Prose

Maryann Corbett: Review by Susan McLean

Lauren Camp: Review by Todd Davis

Carol Frost: Review by Richard Holinger

Eric Pankey: Three Poems

John Hyland: “Next Door”

William Fargason: “On Dishes and My Father”

Katie Richards: “Stimulation”

Moira Linehan: “Late in the Late Years”

Matthew Sumpter: “Homecoming”

Peter Grandbois: “The light is different, after”

Lynn Domina: “Boundary Water”

Francine Witte: “When Supper Was a Thing”

Raina Joines: “Shadowcasting”

Allen Stein: “Carpe Diem (As if You Could)”

Peter Serchuk: “Lisa”

Claire Bateman: “Blink”

Yun Wang: “Winter Seascape”

Kelli Russell Agodon: “Unsustainable”

Matthew Thorburn: “Heaney’s Voice”

Susan McLean: “Rationale”

Caleb Curtiss: “A Kind of Purple”

Romana Iorga: “Mieluța”

Jo Brachman: “Whatever the History Between Us”

Austin Segrest: “Montevallo”

James Harms: “‘Such Utter Foreignness of Contact'”

Jeff Fearnside: “Genus LUPINUS”

Elise Hempel: “Sunday Morning at ACE”

Thomas Mitchell: “Kayaking, Long Island Sound”

Lex Runciman: “Hillside at Laugharne”

Richard Cole: “A City Is the People You Know There”

Douglas Nordfors: “A Mennonite Girl Wearing the Latest Life Jacket”

Edward Harkness: “In the High Sierra”

George Drew: “No Wonder I’m Still Thinking About Johnny Cash”

Michael Dechane: “Three Times She Peels a Grapefruit”

Jennifer Franklin: “Memento Mori: Apple Orchard”

Roger Pfingston: “A Moment in Passing”

Barton Sutter: “White Feather”

Cover Art Commentary: Gregg Hertzlieb on Jim Nutt