BPJ Winter 2008 Vol. 58 No. 2

Winter 2008 Vol. 58 No. 2


Joan Braun
"Tree Sacrifice Series #6," Epson print 2006. Insert "Baby Jesus and Dead Iraqi Child," Epson print 2006. For more of the artist's work visit www.joanbraun.com.	Cover
Mary Greene
design	Cover

Fifeenth Annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize	5
Jeremiah Webster
August 15, 1945	6
M. A. Schaffner
Oh Dorothy	7
Christina LaPrease
Low Country	8
Antechamber	9
Nance Van Winckel
Given Unto Ye	10
Purportedly	11
Sandra Kohler
The Sentence	12
A Quilt	13
Leonore Hildebrandt
A Dream More than Twice	14
Plowing the Canvas	15
Christopher Matthews
Fetching	16
Greg Wrenn
One of the Magi	18
Epithalamium	19
Jennifer Borges Foster
[Sew together the brittle leaves]	20
from Seraph	21
Jeff McRae
Picking Stone	23
Peter Munro
Animal Kingdom	24
Karen Johnson
Deep Winter	34
Death Becomes You	35
Tony Brinkley
from Saccades, a sequence	36
Sandra Liu
Folk-tail	39
Angela Rydell
Pregnant Woman Thinks of Rainforest	40
Stephen Malin
Wordfill	41

BOOKS IN BRIEF
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer
Heather McHugh, ed., The Best American Poetry 2007	42