The Open Issue
Fall 2009. Vol. 32 No.2
CV2’s annual Open Issue features an interview with poetry upstart Jeramy Dodds, who talks about the unexpected success and praise of his first collection of poetry, Crabwise to the Hounds. Also featured is “Formally Speaking” with CV2 Editor, poet and critical writer Maurice Mierau, as well as new work by E. Blagrave, matt robinson, Gillian Sze and many others.
Online content from this issue
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by Jessica Moore
Evening turns, sudden as pigeons. Prayer flags white on the sky like flickering wings Light pauses — the...
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by Jami Macarty
She is necklaces. He is a fine spray of axe. At what point does infidelity begin? During...
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by Susan Steudel
Cradling fire in cupped hands. A wet bird. A thimbleful of water. Yellow jackets on stem of fireweed. A...
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by Patrick M. Pilarski
quick conversion. in lung. H2SO4 or so. perhaps alchemist of fissures. a different kind of metal: never...
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by Sadiqa de Meijer
Don’t be scared. Every airplane is a suspension of disbelief, a merger of physics and faith. Every airplane guides...
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by Linda King
in the fugitive’s house small hands open to catch the rain bodies coil into fetal position kite strings unravel ...
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by J.L. Bond
Pain is a prowler at your back door, scuffing his boots, smudging the window, rattling the knob; a robber...
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by Daniel Goodwin
You are always there, Icarus, frozen in our minds in mid-fall for the sport of us poets who are compelled...
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by Jeramy Dodds
(Fáfnismál) Once Sigurd and Regin reach the peak of Gnita-heath they find the dragon Fafnir’s footprints falling to the...
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by Maurice Mierau
In my first day in the Berryman archive, browsing through box 5, folder 6, I come upon the first draft...
