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The Open Issue

Winter 2016. Vol. 38 No.3

Contemporary Verse 2 volume 38.3 “The Open Issue” marks the beginning of CV2‘s fifth decade and features the winners of the Young Buck Poetry Prize and 2-Day Poem Contest. The issue includes new poetry from Sarah Klassen, John Wall Barger, Linda Frank, and Ted Landrum as well as several book reviews.

Online content from this issue

  • sleeping

    by Kayla Krut
    you know they love you if they take your picture while you’re sleeping. i take pictures because i feel like...

  • mandolin

    by Jesse Matas
    turn me to play tire tracked steel wound funiculars filamented clandestine caravans bordering optic filters and a mandolin so held,...

  • Old Man Winter 1

    by Paula Jane Remlinger
    Old man winter’s got a gap-toothed scowl on his stubbled crag. He spits blizzards like Copenhagen chew, expectorates Nor’easters in...

  • Fulfillment

    by Sarah Klassen
    These geese have accomplished what they were born for:  tedious flight north, nest building on a river bank,  eggs laid...

  • Goose

    by Patricia Young
    The goose was in love with three ganders and they loved her in return — unheard of in the annals of...

  • But for Now

    Reviewed by Michael Minor
    The late, and beloved, poet Margaret Avison writes, “Poetry is always in / unfamiliar territory” (Avison 27). I hope you...