Immigrant Poets

Conversation with
Alejandro Escudé

The Spring 2018 issue features a tribute to Immigrant Poets—eighteen poets who no longer live in their countries of birth, often exploring the sense of place and identity. Some poets have emigrated from places like Hong Kong, India, Sudan, and the Ukraine to the United States, while others moved abroad from the U.S. In the conversation section, editor Timothy Green talks to Argentinian-American poet Alejandro Escudé. Having emigrated to California as a child, Escudé shares his experience, before moving on to topics like “fidgit poetry” and gun control.

The issue also includes 21 poets in another eclectic open section, including everything from phallogocentrism to fish-burgers, and a long topical prose poem co-written by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade.

	Immigrant Poets
	Yakov Azriel	The Immigrant
	Elizabeth T. Chao	Qí Páo
	Floyd Cheung	Immigrant English Professor’s Lament …
	Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach	In Praise of Forgetting
	Dalia Elhassan	Final Portrait of the Sudanese
	Alejandro Escudé	The First Time I Took My Gun to the Range
	Chris Huntington	Sonnet, with Redskins
	Luisa A. Igloria	Dear Federico,
	Maria Jastrzebska	Dear Mama,
	Annie Kantar	A Matter of Time
	Tanya Ko-Hong	A Blonde Whispers Korean in My Ear—
	Sneha Madhavan-Reese	To Thousand Island
	Sue O’Dea	Prayer
	Yamini Pathak	Indian Beauty
	Divya Rajan	Ranchi, India, 1966
	Gene Tanta	Watching Paint Dry
	Simona Chitescu Weik	What They Smuggled Across the Border—
	Echo Wren	The Last Toothbrush
		Europa
	Poetry
	Scott Beal	Ambiguous Antecedents
	George Bilgere	Big Thing
	Kate Buckley	Zumba with the Church Ladies
	Bonnie Buhrow	Miraculous Sawdust
	Denise Duhamel	Hush
	& Julie Marie Wade
	Megan Falley	Ode to Red Lipstick
	Bob Hicok	I Am Wanting
		Going Big
	Nicole Homer	Wonder Woman Underoos
	Lowell Jaeger	Fish-Burger and Fries
	Brad Johnson	They Said It Was a Weather Balloon
	Jonathan Johnson	Night Drive at Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six …
	Nancy Kangas	Patience
	Julie Price Pinkerton	On the Pier Where the Sign Reads …
	Laura Read	Phallogocentric
	Daniel Tompkins	This All Happened on Earth
	Kathleen A. Wakefield	They Began Late
	William H. Wandless	Practical Anatomy
	Jeff Whitney	Dear Phil,
	Lizabeth Yandel	Elegy for Charles Porter
	Conversation
	Alejandro Escudé
	Cover Art
	Kristina Gehrmann