DECOMMISSIONED PLANES It’s not easy to pull the track blinds, look for cedar waxwings or passenger jets through dad’s cheapo binoculars, check the furnace filters, pilot light, as engines rumble overhead. Decommissioned planes in long-term storage in the Mojave are obsolete yet invincible. Because of the dry climate, they don’t rust, parts are…
TABLE OF CONTENT
POETRY
- Leland James, FIG LEAVES \ LUST AND THE COSMOS
- Christopher Levenson, ESTRANGEMENT \ A FINE LINE
- Jime Fisher, “HOW BLUEGRASS DESTROYED MY LIFE”
- James W. Wood, HEARTBLEED VIRUS
- Eduardo Chirinos, English translations by G. J. Racz LO QUE MI PADRE QUIERE REALMENT DE MI \ POEMA QUE EMPIEZA CON UN VERSO DE DUNCAN (translated by G. J. Racz)
- Glenn Hayes, THE BRIDGE
- James K. Zimmerman, EPIPHANY
- Andrew Petrucci, PORTRAIT OF TECUMSEH
- Jeanette Vo, MIRRORS
- Antony Di Nardo, THERE’S NO HORSING AROUND
- Nyla Matuk, FAMILY HEIRLOOMS***
- Jennifer Footman, THINGS SHE IS AFRAID TO DO IN AMSTERDAM
- Tim Lilburn, HUMMINGBIRD
- Simon Perchik, *
- Cam Scott, OIKONOMOS
- Barry Butson, RUNNING AROUND LISTENING TO THE CARS
- Miki Fukuda, THE FALL***
- Paul-Georges Leroux , LE LIVRE DES MUTATIONS (BOOK OF CHANGES) \ LE THORKELL MÁNI (THE THORKELL MÁNI)
- David Romanda, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
- Sebastien Wen, PTERYGOTA
- Jay Winston Ritchie, THE WAY THE WATER IS VS THE WAY THE WATER WAS
- Kristjana Gunners, MANIFESTATION
- Michael Quilty, CONCUSSION 0H08D
- Paul Vermeersch, DETROIT \ MOTEL
- Patrick Sylvain, A REALM (NAMING THE IS)
- Pamela Porter, HOW DELICATE
- Laura Matwichuk, DECOMISSIONED PLANES
- Adam Lawrence, CUTICLE
- Shawn Fawson, NOTES ON SHUTTER SPEED
- Genevieve MacKay, ODYSSEUS
VALLUM AWARD FOR POETRY
- Alexei Perry Cox, 1st Place – THE LONG STUDY
- Carla Barkman, 2nd Place – LAST EVENING I STUMBLED
- Susan Hughson, Honourable Mention – APPLE TO APPLE
- Domenico Capilongo, Honourable Mention – PASS THE NOTE
REVIEWS
- Danny Jacobs, MAVOR’S BONES by Rolli
- Frances Bianco, METROPANTHEON by Steven Artell
- David Swartz, WHAT DOES A HOUSE WANT? Selected Poems by Gary Geddes
- Eleni Zisimatos, THE POETIC EDDA. Translated by Jeramy Dodds
ART
- Maia Flore, photographs from SLEEP ELEVATIONS, MORNING SCULPTURES, SITUATIONS, and DIARY series