Contents - 45.1 Summer 2020

Jose-Luis Moctezuma (Illinois)

Private Equity

Ryan Harper (New York)

Little Missouri Overlook, Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Paul Martinez-Pompa (Illinois)

Poetry Machine
kitchen table
Warm-up Act
Ultimatums
Approximations & Other Timestamped Identities

Jen Stewart Fueston (Colorado)

What Was Devoured
Upon Seeing a Photograph of Christine Blasey Ford

Zakiya Cowan (Illinois)

Self Portrait as a Palm Tree
Pastor Dunks Me in the River

Mary Soto (Peru)
Translated by Madeline Vardell (Arkansas)

Journey
For Each of You Who Will Always Live
On the Paranapura

Ronda Piszk Broatch (Washington)

Of the Father, Imperfect

Robert Fillman (Pennsylvania)

On My Son’s Seventh Birthday

Doug Ramspeck (Ohio)

The Ends of the World

John Morrison (Oregon)

The Last Step of the Plan

Ellen Kombiyil (New York)

How to Revamp Steel Knives into Stone Churches

Mia Ayumi Malhotra (California)

On Spring
Poem, with a Door in It

Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poets
Counter Measures
Hex and Howl
Revolve
Portrait as Landscape: Shell Game
Self-Portrait with a Line by Ingeborg Bachmann
Self-Portrait with a Line by Osip Mandelstam
Rust
Scorch
Duologue
Of Salt and Ache and Rendering
The Bright Obvious
Light in a Dead Hour
A CENTO SUITE: DECLARATIONS
i. Atmospheric
Embroidery
ii. The End of Spectacle
iii. The New Nudity
iv. Age of Glass
v. Bully Love
vi. When I Wake It Will Be Forever
vii. Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country
Midwest Traveler

Jackie K. White, Simone Muench, Carlo Matos (Illinois), and Amy Sayre Batista (Illinois)

The SRPR Interview

Julia Wong Kcomt (Peru)
Translated by Jennifer Shyue (New York)

A janela está fechada
Fragility of the Mudfish
The Cleansing
gabriella sleeps

Nicolas Gulig (Wisconsin)

The Abandoned Citadel

Mary Birnbaum (Pennsylvania)

Dove Park

Robin Silbergleid (Michigan)

The Old Country

Michelle Turner (Colorado)

Self-Portrait with Spring Melt

Michael Leong (California)

from Disorientations

Jane Ann Flint (California)

What We Ate When My Father Left

Ranjana Varghese (Texas)

Architect

Jody Chan (Canada)

self-portrait between after & before
dysphoria

Abby Kiefer (New Hampshire)

On Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred Rogers Explains Thunder/em>

Emily Carr (Florida)

from “Les Paradis Artificiels”

Korey Williams (Illinois)

The SRPR Review Essay: Disciples of Baldwin