Table of Contents

At Odds with Tragedy

Contents

Editor’s Notes

poetry by Judith Krause
variations on a glosa on the fourth anniversary of 9/11

an interview with Shawna Lemay

poetry by Shawna Lemay
the blue feast
past infatuations
thin-skinned
why not
salt

poetry by Erin Murphy
rules for writing poems about hurricane katrina

poetry by Cécile Oumhani
jardins
parfum
mémoire perdue

poetry by Clayton McCann
just lucky, i guess

an essay by George Murray
full circle—disaster vs. the poem

poetry by Marilyn Iwama
on gaspereau road
crossing

poetry by Jennifer Still
girlwood: a treasury for the lost (excerpts)

poetry by Sonja Greckol
we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998)
joy riding

poetry by Murray Reiss
my cousin calls
mything pieces

poetry by Sandra Lambert
three moons
not wanting cruelty
walking the dogs

poetry by Malca Litovitz and Elana Wolff
moon-sliver

poetry by Jennifer Houle
weak force

poetry by Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck
signs

poetry by Ann Scowcroft
love poem
warrior

poetry by Richie Dent
compassion is born

poetry by Gillian Harding-Russell
on the ides of march: anti-ghazals that scream and overflow and want to disappear (excerpts)

poetry by Jenna Butler
blueberry season

poetry by Barry Dempster
library book sale
nudes

poetry by Maria Beliaeva
the untranslatable

poetry by Julie Hartley
connections, now

poetry by Carole Langille
“everywhere i went it was a scene out of dante”
michelangelo’s david
for yehuda amichai

poetry by Shawna Delgaty
remember

poetry by Billeh Nickerson
impact
the wishing well
edith evans

poetry by E. Alex Pierce
hendrick goltzius’s hand

poetry by Jennifer Londry
slip

an essay by Karen Connelly
how to see an invisible woman

poetry by Sachiko Murakami
wishing well
at the moment of wishing
two women