BPJ Winter 2006-2007 Vol. 57 No. 2

Winter 2006-2007 Vol. 57 No. 2


Mary Greene
design	Cover
Abby Shahn
"The Two Headed Woman," egg tempera on paper, 1999. Collection of Colby College. For more of the artist's work, visit www.abbyshahn.com	Cover

Fourteenth Annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize	5
Scott Withiam
The Wound	6
Kathleen Mayberry
First Lesson	7
Rhoda Janzen
Strongly Scented Sonnet	8
Ormesby Psalter	9
Pioneer Girls	10
Ghost Train	11
Paul Gibbons
Quantum Elegy	12
Messiaen, WWII	13
Charity Ketz
Blessed are They	14
Brian Komei Dempster
Jacket Elegy	18
Hillel Schwartz
First International Conference of Hermits, Oxford	20
Whatever	22
Kate Martin Rowe
Inscription for Tamarindo	24
Young Smith
Description of a Pear on a Pewter Dish	26
Squamata	27
Poem Attempting to Deny the Body	28
Natasha Sajé
F	29
Steve Wilson
Textuality	30
Shawn M. Durrett
Salt	31
Holly Iglesias
Natural Flair	32
Civil Defense Drill No.6	33
Ross R. Whitney
The Argument	34
Daniel Lusk
Woodchuck in Winter	36
Kevin Ducey
Chisolm Goodnight Loving	37

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
Another Kind of Best	42
Billy Collins, ed., The Best American Poetry 2006	42