Tribute to Nurses

Conversations with
Tess Gallagher & Arthur Sze

 

Releasing December 2007, issue #28 honored one of the world’s most important professions, in featuring poems and essays written by 24 nurses. Many of them write about their careers, but the scope of their subject matter is impressive, and all of it informed by the intimate work that they do daily. Nurses are present at our most vulnerable moments, and so are given special insight into what it means to be human. This ‘unusual access’ makes for a collection of poems not to be missed.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Tess Gallagher and Arthur Sze, and we share the 11 winning poems from the 2007 Rattle Poetry Prize.

 

	Nurses
	Judy Bowman	At Four in the Morning
	Jeanne Bryner	Saucer
	Jeanne Cook	Equations of the Heart
	Cortney Davis	Essay: Nursing and the Word
		Diagnosis HIV
	T.S. Davis	Essay: A Kind of Gift
		The Gravedigger Thinks Of
	Cheryl Dellasega	Dressing Room Without Curtains
	Monica Groth Farrar	Things They Save
	Maggie Greene	All-Consuming
	Marsha Smith Janson	Sky Stays the Same
	Nancy Kerrigan	Ward 24
	Tracy Klein	Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990
	Sean Aden Lovelace	Nursing Note #8
	Veneta Masson	Conga! at the Rio
	Allan Nicoletti	Open House
	Mary H. Palmer	The Sea Turtle
	Geri Rosenzweig	The Street of the Cellist
	Judy Schaefer	Dad’s Report of a Tornado in Missouri…
	Kelly Sievers	Ceremony
	Kathleen Walsh Spencer	Her Brother’s Pickhole
	S Stephanie	The Traffic of Tulips
	Shawna Swetech	Midwifing My Father
	Anne Webster	Essay: A Split Personality
		Dry Drowning
	Christine Wideman	Howlin’ Moon
	Rattle Poetry Prize Winner
	Albert Haley	Barcelona
	Honorable Mentions
	Chris Anderson	Living the Chemical Life
	Devika Brandt	What My Parents Want
	Debra Marquart	Buoy
	Glenn Morazzini	Ars Poetica Harmonica
	Gretchen Steele Pratt	Hitch-Hiking
	Brian Satrom	Corner Store
	Alison Townsend	Spin
	Jay Udall	Of Unity and Wholeness
	Nathaniel Whittemore	You Never Know When You’re Gonna Live …
	Maya Jewell Zeller	Amber
	Poetry
	Kristin Abraham	Hair of the Dog
	José Angel Araguz	Gloves
	Joseph Bathanti	Jesus Meets the Women
	Judi K. Beach	Tomato and Knife
	Craig Beaven	Are You Okay?
	Nicole Bestard	Ortolan
	Michael Boccardo	Weighing In
	Ronda Broatch	Considering a Position as a New Planet
	Bill Brown	The Rubber
	Erik Campbell	Sound and Sense
	M.L. Clark	On Realizing There Are Too Many Poems …
	Peter Cooley	Instructions for Assembling the Miracle
	Jim Daniels	The Dark Miracle of Insomnia
	Andrea Defoe	For a Piano Abandoned in the Breadbasket
	Matt Dennison	Parable of Displeasure
	James Doyle	Schoolgirls
	Edison Dupree	Poem for Frank Owens
	Damien Echols	First Love
		Uncle Charlie
	Anna Evans	Feeling Compassion for Others
	Alan Fox	A Poet Is Supposed to Live His Life Out Loud
	Richard Garcia	Just Like Two People
	John Goode	Happiness
	Brent Goodman	Maps
	Michael J. Grabell	Drifting
	Gordon Grilz	Reunion
	Jenny Hanning	Known
	Rob Hardy	To the Daughter I Never Had
	L.L. Harper	Assassin
	Judith Harris	The Facts
	Mark D. Hart	Torching the Playhouse
	Lisa Hickey	Mail Order Tadpoles
	John Oliver Hodges	The Teller on the Right
	Tom Holmes	My Mouth (An Apology)
	Roy Jacobstein	Sustenance
	Aseem Kaul	A Poem for Valentine’s Day
	Keetje Kuipers	Prayer
	Lyn Lifshin	Being Jewish in a Small Town
	Diane Lockward	Love Song with Plum
	Teddy Macker	Sycamore Canyon
	Marty McConnell	Fable Telling How Night Invented Herself …
	M.K. Meder	Blessing in Disguise
	Susanna Mishler	The Afterlife: In the Summer House
	Peter Moore	Stud Spray
	Barbara Paparazzo	Not Knowing Better
	Tim Poland	Seven Simple Exercises to Prepare for …
	James Ragan	Richmond Hill
	Sophia Rivkin	Man, Boy, Dog
	Lee Rossi	Underground
	Mather Schneider	County
	Patricia Smith	Speculum Oris
	Lianne Spidel	Homeland in an Old War
	Daniel Stewart	Singularity
	Christine Stewart-Nuñez	Lost
	Kandie St.Germain	Nails
	Kendra L. Tanacea	Stepmother
	Alison Townsend	Persephone Remembers: The Bed
	Liliana Ursu	Circles and Circles
	Jeff Vande Zande	Green
	Martin Vest	Man on Fire
	Jessicca Daigle Vidrine	Still Life
	Scott Weaver	Lessons
	Joe Weil	Morning at the Elizabeth Arch
	Hilda Weiss	My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones
	Jake Willard-Crist	Miss Memory
	Conversations
	Tess Gallagher
	Arthur Sze