The Early Years
Summer 2010. Vol. 33 No.1
The first of two issues in celebration of Contemporary Verse 2‘s thirty-five years of fine poetry. We focus on the first ten years of the journal’s history, from its founding in 1975 by Dorothy Livesay until 1985, when the magazine underwent a complete overhaul – resulting in radical changes not only to the editorial structure but to the size, look and publishing mandate of the magazine.
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by Marilyn Bowering
The sky’s blue eye blinks awareness: okay. The heron’s paper legs cut a fine pencil drawing — how many wing strokes...
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by Dennis Cooley
you slipt from night a hempen bag the morning ran sacked with the first messy lightit was time you saidtime to up...
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by David Arnason
Dogs locked in cars while their masters shop are all reduced, their territory circumscribed they feel they are abandoned, left...
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by Mary di Michele
Yukio Mishima swore he’d die a beautiful corpse. It was the age. The sixties feared the thirties. At thirty something...
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by Maureen Scott Harris
Lake St Clair, Tasmania, September, 2009 Rain drummed staccato on the metal roof, waking me before dawn. I lay...
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by Tom Wayman
Daring inhabitant of a confined space bounded by what can bruise, slice or even kill the organ — a bilobate, blind,...
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by George Amabile
The khaki Humvee hits a bump in the tarmac and the back wheels blow off, the rims scraping sparks as...