BPJ Spring 2008 Vol. 58 No. 3

Spring 2008 Vol. 58 No. 3

Chapbook 24: Split This Rock Chapbook


Lee Sharkey
from Eyes Wide Open series, digital photograph, Chicago, 2007	Cover
Mary Greene
design	Cover
Lee Sharkey and John Rosenwald
Editors' Note	6
Alicia Ostriker
Reading the News in America	8
Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz	10
Robert Bly
Call and Answer	12
Things Left to Do	13
Stephen Kuusisto
Jazz from Cripple City	14
By Halves	15
Ishle Yi Park
Wind	16
Private Dancer	17
Jimmy Santiago Baca
from Huitzilopochtli	18
Martín Espada
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	20
City of Glass	22
Galway Kinnell
The Fundamental Project of Technology	24
Patricia Smith
She Sees What It Sees	26
The President Flies Over	27
Alix Olson
Dear Diary	28
Sam Hamill
Homeland Security	31
E. Ethelbert Miller
Three Poems	32
Rosa Parks Dreams	34
Naomi Shihab Nye
Communication Skills	35
Heat	36
Carolyn Forché
The Museum of Stones	37
Susan Tichy
American Ghazals	38
Pamela Uschuk
Sunday News on the Navajo Rez	42
Sonia Sanchez
Peace	44
A Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele	48
Joy Harjo
No	50
Perhaps the World Ends Here	51
Mark Doty
To Joan Mitchell	52