Spring 2012
Volume 88, Number 2
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Dreams of Poetry
VQR Portfolio
- Stephen Burt — David Caplan at Tiferes Bachurim
- David Caplan — Into My Garden, God Knows English, Only the Hebrew, The Mistake, Bound, Alien Fire, Nittel Nacht, Ohel, Chassidus by Telephone, Bris Milah, and After
Essay
- David Caplan — The Art of the Rhymed Insult
- Ted Genoways — I Am Here Like an Old Hulk Driven Up on the Sand
- William Logan — Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
- Maureen N. McLane — My H.D.
VQR Symposium
- Robert Archambeau — The State of the Art
- David Baker — Song of Sanity
- David Caplan — American Poetry and Poetry Criticism Now
- Ted Genoways — Dead and Divine, and Brother of All
- Linda Gregerson — The Self in the Poem
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers — The Subjective Briar Patch: Contemporary American Poetry
- David Orr — American Poetry: An Allegory
- Stanley Plumly — Whitman's Compost
- Willard Spiegelman — Has Poetry Changed? The View From the Editor's Desk
- Ann Townsend — Whitman in Baghdad
Poetry
- Kim Addonizio — Except Thou Ravish Me
- Debra Allbery — Vinton County, 1965
- David Baker — The Anniversary and Five Odes on Absence
- Charles Bernstein — Chimera
- Traci Brimhall — The Lazarus Collector
- Victoria Chang — We Are Monica (Acrostic)
- Erica Dawson — Ideation X
- Heather Dubrow — Geranium
- Claudia Emerson — Greengrocer and House Sparrows
- B.H. Fairchild — Economics and Three Girls Tossing Rings
- Katie Ford — Our Long War
- Dana Gioia — After a Line of Neruda
- Albert Goldbarth — M/D
- Paul Guest — Right When I'm Feeling Good About the Modern Moment and Thinking About Disappointment
- H.L. Hix — These Underwatered and This Body a Sea
- Andrew Hudgins — Our Wars and Autumn's Author
- John Koethe — Eggheads and Self-Portrait on YouTube
- David Lehman — Poem in the Manner of the 1960s and Story of My Life
- Cate Marvin — Some Day My Prince Will Come
- Jeredith Merrin — [Now, her hair …], [Suddenly—no reason—], [Today I went], and Not a Prayer
- Jennifer Moxley — R.I.P. and Listen
- Kate Northrop — The Apartment and High Plains
- Yehoshua November — A Man Who Has Suffered, You Stood Beneath a Streetlight Waving Goodbye, and Two Worlds Exist
- Meghan O'Rourke — At Père Lachaise and For Apollinaire
- D.A. Powell — Sheila's End (Credits) and The Invited
- Kevin Prufer — Love & Terror and History Lesson
- Alan Shapiro — Gravity and In Winter
- Natasha Trethewey — Enlightenment
- Pimone Triplett — Real Estate and Census
- A. Van Jordan — Blazing Saddles
- Tyrone Williams — Setnet
- C. Dale Young — Hush and The Prodigal
- Linda Zisquit — Ghazal: Slowness
- Rachel Zucker — Two Kinds of Suffering
