Poems & Plays 18

 

Michelle Miller (5-9)

• In the Absence of a Perfect Language
• Short Essay on the Relativity of Relative Happiness
• The Late Friday Hours

Elizabeth Kerlikowske (9-10)

• Faces on Plates
• Poem without a Single Lie in It

Albert Garcia (11-13)

• The Weather and Your Dress
• Home from Work
• Elephant Heart

Holly Hinkle (14)

• Blackout

Doug Ramspeck (23-24)

• Crow Prayer
• White Lie

Kathleen Kirk (25-26)

• After the Documentary
• Nocturne in Grey and Gold

Margaret Hoffman (30-31)

• Breakfast on the Veranda with Gaylord Brewer
• Metaphor for Being in Love: #1

James Doyle (32-34)

• Miss America, 1799
• Family Album
• From Sir Reginald's Diary, England, 1857

Christine Heppermann (35-37)

• Choice
• First Communion Reject
• Beached Mermaid

Tom Hunley (38)

• My Worst Fear Comes True

Ron Koertge (39-42)

• Dagwood
• Blondie
• Daisy
• Mr. Beasley

Suzanne Roberts (51)

• Skeleton

Stephen Gibson (52-53)

• Tweets
• It!

Bart Edelman (54-55)

• Colonel Sanders (and the Gospel of Love)
• Frame by Frame

Mark Neely (56)

• Last Call

Emilia Phillips (59-60)

• Ghost Sonnet
• Ars Poetica: A Bucket of Blood

Rodney Wittwer (61)

• The Answer Man at the Arena

Krista Lukas (62)

• It's Funny

PLAYS

Kimber Lee (15-22)

• Mule

Diane Diianni (27-29)

• The Intender

William Orem (43-50)

• Ontological

Eric Lane (57-58)

• The Adventure

Contributors (63-64)

THE 2011 TENNESSEE CHAPBOOK PRIZE

Daniel Daly (65-84)

• Off the Road

 Poems & Plays 19

POEMS

William Pitt Root (5-9)

• Update
• Use these Clues to Review the Blues

Stuart Bartow (10-12)

• Magical Boy
• Satyr
• Forbidden World

Charlotte Pence (13-16)

• Along the Putumayo River in the Amazon
• The Diagnosis: Paranoid Schizophrenia
• My Father Speaks of Thieves

Katheleen Driskell (17-18)

• The Oak Room
• Church of the Absent Mother

Katherine Smith (19-22)

• Southern Jew
• The Lighthouse
• Immortality

Russell Evatt (23)

• Well-Worn Hymnal

Bruce Barton (1, 33-38)

• from Evening
• Morning Tracks
• How to Survive Hunting Season
• Waxwings
• Bear

Ron McFarland (39-41)

• On Hearing that Idaho's Per Capita Income
• Ranks Lowest of Any State Except Mississippi
• Learning to Dance

James Doyle (42-43)

• Adult Education: Creative Writing--Poetry, Wednesday Nights
• Opehlia Plans Her Afternoon

Jason McCall (44-45)

• "People Change Their Names . . . You Did."
• "Change Is Neither Good Nor Bad; It Simply Is. It Can Be Greeted with Terror or Joy."

Dana Curtis (46)

• Wave Parcile Duality (Noir)

Mac Gay (55-56)

• Poolroom
• Witnessing Weather

Charlotte Matthews (57-58)

• Reasons Why He Fell
• The End of Make Believe

Kathleen Kirk (59-60)

• Cassandra Loses Her License
• Cassandra Turns into the Moon
• Cassandra Takes off Her Mask

Naton Leslie (61)

• You Have the Right to Hot Peppers

Richard Newman (62)

• Italian Sonnet

PLAYS

Erin Keane (24-31)

• Manicpixiedreamgirl Panic

David Marcia (47-54)

• Whiskey Tango

ART

Martin Wittfooth (32 + Insert)

Contributors (63-64)

THE 2012 TENNESSEE CHAPBOOK PRIZE

Lois Marie Harrod (65-84)

• THE ONLY IS