BY REQUEST:  Poems from Our Readings                

(copyrights retained by authors)
Unequal Battle  

(Winner of the 3rd annual "Independence" theme contest)

 Peter Goodwin
why i write The Twin Poets
Check Your Watch, Your Calendar David Kozinski
The Prisoner of Guantanamo

Hassan Nawaz
 We Watch and Wait, 

Until It Is Time to Return (to our poets, that are no longer around)

 Dallas Kirk Gantt 
Midnight Outside the Church  Peg Clifford      
 The Silence of the Last Petal  Douglas Morea   
  Pittsburgh 1992 Jim Faltot    
  Inanna Returns to Dumuzi Jamie Brown   
  G-Strings and Karma Nathan P. Smith   

  dodging the burly

Jeffrey Little
   In Old Photographs Vanessa Haley  
Shanghaied Christopher Marks   
Dirty Snow (or Dirty Little Lazy Bastards) William Manchester  
  Howl: Me, My Girlfriend, and Allen Peter Goodwin
    from Voices Over Water  The Wazir's Daughter,  The Wazir's Daughter (Redux) Chris Reeves 
from   Bloodsisters Billie Travalini