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Out of Line

Fall 2015. Vol. 38 No.2

For this special anniversary issue, Contemporary Verse 2 resists looking back at their 40 years of publishing experience and instead chooses to celebrate the future possibilities for poetry, both critically and creatively. This issue breaks free from CV2’s usual design to pay tribute, with a more modern interpretation, to the original 1975 issues of the magazine.

Online content from this issue

  • monachopsis

    by Chimwemwe Undi
    glass separates selves — this her! this Other! an off-kilter smile pasted on comes quickly undone   the corners peel...

  • how to (re)cover yourself

    by Eileen Holowka
    here’s how:   grab a hold and tear / as if through skin rip / the frills off get impatient...

  • i’d say “i’ll be back” but i never intend to leave

    by Joshua Whitehead
    when i go out for dinner with my boyfriend i worry about many things: about the threat of men hetero...

  • Excerpt from Antoinette: An Opera

    by Ray Hsu and Colin McMahon
    (Beginnings of ball scene)   du Motier: (bowing a bit too low) Your Highness.   Louis: Who’s this?   Marie:...

  • Studying a Note to Self

    by Hannah Green
    There is a wound and when no one is looking I lick it. Salt can be metaphor. I will make...

  • The Book of Festus

    Reviewed by Michael Prior
    Web-only content       Festus, having forgot, woke, citizen in the City of himself. Festus was nothing, was shell,...

  • In Conversation with Ray Hsu: A Collaborative discourse

    Interviewed by Clarise Foster
    Clarise Foster: Do you think that part of the problem with publishing a collaboration like the Nepotists might be that...