Contents - 38.2 Winter 2013

Juliana Spahr, Judge (California)

Judge’s Introduction to “Fire,” SRPR Editors’ Prize Winner 2013

First Place: Jesse Nissim (New York)

Fire

Runner-up: Dante Di Stefano (New York)

Praying to Ares after Listening to My Father’s Voice Message

Runner-up: Carol Matos (New York)

Goodbye Charlie

Honorable Mention: Leland James (Michigan)

A Brief History of the Electric Chair

Honorable Mention: Susan Charkes (Pennsylvania)

Conveyance

Honorable Mention: Michael Sukach (Colorado)

Poetry Critic: A Found Pastoral

Honorable Mention: Arne Weingart (Illinois)

Parenthetical

Nandi Comer (Indiana)

Tamed

Melissa Cundieff-Pexa (New York)

Mother to Her Son

Carmen Váscones (Spain) Translated by Alexis Levitin (New York)

What mutilated splendor

Jane Medved (Israel)

Separating Challah
Betray

Jay Deshpande (New York)

A Love Poem for Vicki Vale

Roy Bentley (Iowa)

Hellhound

Douglas Kearney (California)

Cleaning House, from Sucktion

Luisa A. Igloria (Virginia)

Stretch

Stephen Massimilla (New York)

Upānāda

Jason Bredle (Illinois)

Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
Retina Heart
Self-Pie
Days of Our Lives
Bat Sleep
Pinball City
Fast Ham
Beating a Dead Horse
Doctor Bronson
Army of Dolphins
Sleeping on the Beach
Gore Monster
Night Wolf
P-Bear

Jason Bredle and Joanne Diaz (Illinois)

The SRPR Interview: Jason Bredle (excerpt)

Lisa Ampleman (Ohio)

Knight Errant

Rob Stephens (Florida)

Postmodern Prince Charming

Ken Haas (California)

Diamond/Ring

Randolph Thomas (Louisiana)

Homeymooner

Robert Evory (New York)

Desire 27

Nicholas Kriefall (Missouri)

Trapped in an Elevator

Siel Ju (California)

Ozone

Andrew Grace (Ohio)

Foreclosures

Monica Hand (Missouri)

Postman

John Blair (Texas)

Blue Moon

Sara Tracey (Illinois)

Ben G.

Pablo Neruda (Chile)
Translated by Dennis Maloney (New York) and Mary Berg (Massachusetts)

The Wine Ordinance

Christina Davis (Massachusetts)

from Mankindness

Amy Nesbitt (Vermont)

Heather

Kenzie Rowlett (California)

Pilgrims

Ravi Shankar (Connecticut)

Evidence

James Engelhardt (Alaska)

Only Connect

Fiona Sze-Lorrain (France)

La Chambre d’écoute
Midnight Almanac

Katy Didden (Missouri)

The SRPR Review Essay: Portals, Placentas, and the Corpus Entire: Three Takes on Ekphrasis (excerpt)