The Non-Classical Penguin Press

Emperor Anthology Issue I

-Anne Marie Lindgren

 

Jelly Bucket for Reading:

Rachel Rinehart

For Laika / 1

 

Ocean Vuong

A Kind of Kindness / 2

 

Michael Schmeltzer

Insect, Inflict / 3

 

Olga Rukovets

Permanence / 4

 

Anothai Kaewkaen

Poems in Praise of Savory Foods and Sweets (Translations of King Rama II’s Food Poems) / 5, 6

 

Abrupt Rural:

David Dodd Lee

Her Body / 7

 

Watermark:

Clayton Michaels

Melancholia is a collective noun / 8

Fiddler’s hearth – summer, 2009 / 9

Eleemosynary / 10, 11

 

Fragile Acts:

Allan Peterson

Innocence of Proof / 12

Ghost Writer / 13

Moon Missing / 14

 

The Other Life:

Herbert Scott

Closing Up / 15

The Lost Aisles / 16, 17

Wolf / 18

 

Shade 2004:

Elizabeth Skurnick

Mt. Desert Island / 19, 20

Mary Ruefle

Grief / 21

Statement / 22

The Feather / 23

 

Tina Chang

Part of the Forest / 24

 

Lydia Melvin

Suit Me / 25

 

Bob Hicok

Limited resources / 26, 27

Suggested modifications / 28, 29

Cleaning House / 30,31,32,33

 

Pablo Medina

The Pillars of Community / 34

Tectonics of the Imperceptible / 35

Purpose and Extravagance / 36

 

Donna Munro

There’s Nothing So Bad Living Can’t Fix It / 37

Trepidar / 38, 39

Filterless Pleasure / 40

 

Chad Faries

Cadenza for the Works of Nick Cave and Euridice / 41, 42, 43

 

Karen Whalley

Under the Sign of Fire / 44

Family of Hard Workers / 45

When He Prunes the Roses / 46

 

Brian Henry

American Incident / 47, 48, 49

 

Kevin Clark

Hands Off / 50, 51

The Crossing / 52, 53

 

Ron Rash

Something Rich and Strange / 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

 

 

 

Paula Cisewski

Birds of Appetite / 61

To A Margin / 62, 63

 

William Olsen

Success / 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71

 

Jaimee Kuperman

I Think Words Louder / 72

Hadrianus / 73

Somebody Else’s Funeral / 74

 

Gretchen Mattox

The Moon Is No Mother / 75

 

Shampoo Issue 40:

Jim Behrle

I move the clocks ahead every weekend / 76

Thank you for your concern / 77

 

Tim Yu

Chinese Silence No. 17 / 78, 79

Chinese Silence No. 18 / 80, 81

Chinese Silence No. 19 / 82, 83

 

Alison Strub

Address to Gregor Mendel / 84

Address to Dr. John Clarke, 1959 / 85

Address to Hipocrates / 86

 

Julien Poirier

The Poem: Fact and Fiction / 87

Caterpillar at the Acropolis / 88

 

Octopus Magazine 15:

Alice Bolin

Yearbook / 89

 

Kevin Simmonds

Mishima / 90

Crystal / 91

Honey / 92

 

 

 

 

Joanna Novak

On a Bolus / 93

Soft Spot / 94

On Appointment / 95, 96

 

Donald Dunbar

Eyelid lick / 97, 98

 

Jason Koo

Giant Steps / 99, 100

GQ Correspondence / 101

 

Sixth Finch Spring 2013:

Luke Bloomfield

Have Some Cake / 102

 

Jay Deshpande

Nocturne. / 103

 

Anne Cecelia Holmes

At Last an Effigy Shaped Like Oklahoma / 104

In Home Movies We Are Always Waving / 105

Poem for What I’m not Allowed / 106

 

John James

It Loops Back Over the Pacific / 107

 

Anne Marie Rooney

Bright path / 108

 

Quarterly West Issue 77:

Lucien Darjeun Meadows

Cocoon / 109

 

Kimberly Grey

We are Mostly Alright / 110

 

Gina R. Evers

Learning to Read Tarot / 111

 

Kerry Banazek

Is It Sex to Say Seeing? / 112

If Our Eyes Slip Through Our Fingers and Leave a Residue / 113

 

Meghan Privitello

Elemental / 114

Rachel Rinehart

Murderess, Ohio / 115

 

Pool:

Jessi Lee Gaylord

I Don’t Want to Watch Deadwood with You Anymore / 116, 117

The Slain Blue Bedroom / 118

 

Kristin Hatch

Pretty Poem / 119

 

Anna Maria Hong

Cassandra / 120

 

Molly McQuade

From A Field Guide to Verbs / 121

 

Amy Newman

When Anne Sexton Makes Enough Money Selling Beauty

Counselor Cosmetics Door-to-Door, She Buys James Wright’s The Green Wall? / 122

 

Nicholas Wong

Post –Colonial Zoology (1997, Hong Kong, returning to China) / 123

 

The Afterlife is a Dry County:

Charmi Keranen

And What of The Moss / 124

A New Mythology / 125

A Treaty of Everlasting / 126

 

The Glimmering Room:

Cynthia Cruz

Strange Gospels / 127

Chronic / 128, 129

Strange Gospels / 130, 131

 

The Baltimore Review:

Sally Rosen Kindred

At the Altar of My Fifth Year / 132,133

 

Patrick Milian

Boy, / 134

 

Helen Degen Cohen

Midnight in Paris / 135, 136

 

Reginald Harris

Self-Portrait as My Father’s Son / 137

 

Megan Grumbling

Vapors / 138

 

Linda Pastan

Weeping Cherry / 139

On the Beach / 140

 

42opus:

Bradley Paul

What Kind of Slow Creeping Death Are You? / 141

 

Diagram 12.6:

Ari Banias

Solve for X / 142

 

Michael Canavan

Nasa Elegy / 143

 

Ted Jean

Mixed Marriage / 144

 

David M. DeLeon

Songs to Water / 145

 

Norman Lock

11 Impossible Objects / 146

 

D. E. Steward

Marzoto / 147

 

R. Williams

The Currency of Tourism / 148                 

 

Portland Review:

Anis Shivani

December 31 / 149

 

Christine Stewart-Nunez

Abecedarian to Unbind / 150

 

Zachary Lundgren

287 South / 151

 

Diode Volume 6 Number 1:

Ash Bowen

We’re Always Getting the Story Wrong / 152

To the Double Helix / 153

For the Man Waiting by the Monkey Bars / 154

 

Anna Journey

Evacuated / 155

 

Gary Sange

Kissing Hands / 156