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The Powow River Anthology is a collection of
poetry by 24 award-winning poets who are members
of the prestigious Powow River Poets of
Newburyport, Massachusetts.
CONTENTS
Introduction
David Berman
After a Family Reunion
Disjunctures
Future Imperfect
Progressions of the Mind
Patricia Callan
Ruth’s Work
Michael Cantor
The Disappearance
Japanese for Beginners: Ronin
Poem Noir
The Wind Rides a Harley
The Young Men in Their Beauty
Bill Coyle
Anima
The God of this World to his Prophet
Leave Taking
The Magic Circle
The Moons of Earth
Tjelvars Grav
Robert Crawford
French Braids
Power Failure
A Row of Stones
Salisbury Cathedral
The Swearing In of Calvin Coolidge
Town Roads
The Whole of It
Rhina P. Espaillat
Butchering
Encounter
Hang Gliders
Highway Apple Trees
If You Ask Me
My Cluttered House Accuses Me of Greed
There Is a Man
Vignette
Weighing In
Lois Frankenberger
Kaddish
Midge Goldberg
The Fish
The Flume Ride
Hometown Bars — If I Went Back
On Air
Town Parade
A. M. Juster
Cancer Prayer
Letter to Auden
Los Periquitos
Moscow Zoo
Note From Echo
Visions of the Serengeti
Merrill Kaitz
Blue Antelope Elegy
Don Kimball
Deer in a Craft Shop
Milk Can
Elaine Kimball
Burying Burley
Santi, the Communist Shoemaker
Len Krisak
Birds from Afar
Common
Constance Marvin
Day-Schoolers on a Walk
Mrs. Henley
On Finishing a Translation of Ovid’s Amores
Plumbing Emergency
A Version of Akhmatova
What of the Night?
Michele Leavitt
Charm School
Ladies Night
Unspent
Nancy Bailey Miller
Grief
Noah’s Wife
James Najarian
Armenian Lesson
Goat Song
Mildred Nash
Hera, Elderly
North Country Graveyard
Vineyard Conjuring
Karen Nelson
Flamenco Dancer
Alfred Nicol
Drink & Dial
The Gift
Guinea Pig
His and Hers
Potatoes
Sunday
Wide Brush
Brian T. O’Brien
Pantry Mouse
Vespers: Canada Geese at the North Pool
Greg Perry
The Last Man Out of Parker Wildlife Refuge
1984
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes
Ledger
Paálam, Wallace, Paálam
Deborah Warren
Aelfgyva
The Crabapple in Flower
Elizabeth’s Dress
Gibbon Motion
Roof-Walker
Thrift Shop
What the Dolphins Know
Richard Wollman
A Cemetery Affair
The Evidence of Things Unseen
Contributors
Acknowledgments
REVIEWS
Reviewed by Timothy Steele
“Like an oasis in a desert, this anthology
offers a fertile refuge in the largely arid
landscape of contemporary verse. Here readers
can escape the bewildering, coercive heat of
Poetry with a capital “P” and find many
refreshing and memorable individual poems. Hats
off to the remarkable Powow poets: long may they
write and thrive.”
Reviewed by Lewis Turco
“Having had some experience with the Powow River
Poets, I was aware of just how good this
anthology could turn out to be. It is that good.
It’s not just that this group of people, as a
whole and individually, is deeply talented. No.
It’s that they seem to empower one another, to
set standards for each other that every one of
them is determined to achieve and amplify. And
it’s not just that they can write, it’s that
they can think as well. These poems are at once
lucid and complex, thoughtful and full of
emotion held in check, often by traditional
craft: rhymes, meters, imagery, song. Truly, I
believe that much has been lost in poetry since
the rush to dump craftsmanship began in the
1950s, and the Powow River Poets are bringing it
back with a flourish.”
Reviewed by Bruce Bennett
“For a number of years, I and many others have
marveled at the phenomenon represented by the
Powow River Poets. Any writer is fortunate to be
able to count on the good will and expertise of
even a single fellow writer as a constantly
constructive reader and critic. How fortunate
then are the members of this gifted group, who
have clearly benefited so much from their
ongoing dynamic association. The support and
inspiration derived from such creative
collaboration is everywhere apparent in the
Powow River Anthology. It is an exemplary
collection.”
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