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| Laurie Pepper |
ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman
[Excerpt + Reviews, and More]
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| SHJ Editors |
In Memory of Steve Kowit
[Poems + Books + Tributes, and More]
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| Steve Kowit |
Stolen Kisses [+ Kiss]
[Essay on his poem “The Kiss” and on filching shamelessly from other writers]
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| Steve Kowit |
Portfolio One: Nine Poems: |
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202 East 7th |
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A Betrayal |
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If she denies it she is lying |
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Let the flame of my passion |
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Metaphysics |
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The Black Shoe |
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The Blue Dress |
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The Prodigal Son’s Brother |
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Will Boland & I |
| Steve Kowit |
Portfolio Two: Ten Poems
from Lurid Confessions
[+ An Introduction by the Author]: |
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Crossing the River |
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Cutting Our Losses |
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Hate Mail |
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It Was Your Song |
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Kowit |
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Lurid Confessions |
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Mysteries |
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Out of McHenry |
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The Poetry Reading Was a Disaster |
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Wanted—Sensuous Woman Who Can Handle 12 Inches of Man |
| Steve Kowit |
A review of Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel
[edited by Seth Farber]
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| Steve Kowit |
Two Essays, from issues 4 and 5 of SHJ: |
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Mystique of the Difficult Poem |
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The 97,000-Mile-a-Minute Poetry Machine
[from Light Years: an Anthology on Sociocultural Happenings
(Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966), ed. Carol Bergé]
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Tributes to Steve: |
| Deborah Allbritain |
Sappho Learns of Your Death |
| Peter Bolland |
[A Pillar of Our Own Reach] |
| Duff Brenna |
Something About Steve |
| Tim Calaway |
The Poetry Teacher |
| Brandon Cesmat |
Dinners To-Go |
| Rebecca Chamaa |
[Two Tributes to Steve Kowit]: |
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The Last Act |
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The Most Meaningful Memorial |
| Anna DiMartino |
A Cricket’s Prayer |
| William Harry Harding |
[A Genuine Treasure] |
| Jackleen Holton Hookway |
The Poetry Lesson |
| Jewish Voice for Peace |
Brilliant Poet, Ardent Activist, and
Founding JVPSD Member Steve Kowit Dies at 76
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| Peter J. Lautz |
Dear Steve |
| Sylvia Levinson |
My Steve Kowit |
| Bill Mohr |
[Two Tributes]: |
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Steve Kowit (1938-2015) |
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Steve Kowit Post-Script: Walt Whitman’s Butterfly |
| Lynda Riese |
[Two Tributes]: |
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His First Day in Heaven |
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Like Wings |
| R. A. Rycraft |
Don’t Laugh at My Poetry! |
| Ron Salisbury |
A Tribute |
| Al Zolynas |
A Philosophy of Life |
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Poetry Editor Steve Kowit passed away soon after he began his review of poetry
submissions for this issue, but not before he had chosen seven works for
publication: a Red Hen prize-winner by Jeff Walt which Kowit called
“a horrifying poem...in the best sense!”; as well as six
“deliciously & outrageously erotic poems” by Alexis Rhone
Fancher, along with her brief commentaries. Additional poems listed below
were selected by SHJ editors Duff Brenna and Clare MacQueen from works
submitted during the reading period for SHJ-12. Those contributed as tributes
to Kowit are listed above under
Featured Poet.
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| Jeff Walt |
In the Bathroom Mirror this Morning |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
Six Poems + Commentary: |
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College Roommates |
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Dos Gardenias |
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Handy |
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How I Lost My Virginity
to Michael Cohen
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The Narcissist’s
Confession
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White Flag |
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| Jude Deason |
Three Poems: |
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Acorn |
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And We All Go Down Together |
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In New Mexico, Another Lover |
| Michael Estabrook |
Two Poems: |
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Susan |
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Time Travel |
| Tamara Hollins |
Two Poems: |
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Absence |
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The wind shifted, and 19 friends died |
| Sylvia Levinson |
I Attend a Concert |
| Lynda Riese |
His First Day in Heaven |
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Like Wings |
| Paul-Victor Winters |
Five Poems: |
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Bonneville |
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Family Tree |
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Nightly News |
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The Taking of a City |
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You & Me & the Waitress & the Rest of the World |
| Jeffrey Zable |
Two Poems: |
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Dissertation on the Guillotine |
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Idealistic High School Weekend |
| Al Zolynas |
Under Ideal Conditions + Commentary |