Poetry’s SUMMER BREAK double issue features new poems by Joshua Mehigan David Biespiel, Carl Dennis, Kathryn Starbuck, Geoffrey Brock, Wendy Videlock, Jason Guriel, Albert Goldbarth, Heather McHugh, Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Kevin McFadden, Bob Hicok, Glyn Maxwell, Philip Memmer, Billy Collins, Robin Behn, Dean Young, D. Nurkse, Heidy Steidlmayer, Stephen O’Connor, and Jack Spicer; a new translation of a radio play by Yehuda Amichai; cartoons by Bruce McCall; a crossword puzzle by Myles Mellor; and prose from David Orr, Vivian Gornick, Marjorie Perloff, Eleanor Wilner, Haki R, Madhubuti, Michael Hofmann, Fanny Howe, and W.S. Di Piero. Table of Contents >>

Jason Guriel
Soft Spots
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Jack Spicer
A Second Train Song for Gary
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Fanny Howe
Because He Was Flesh
My friendship with Dahlberg ended bitterly. He chased me around his apartment on Rivington Street with his pants down, having locked the door from the inside, and I had to leap out a window to get away from him.
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When W.D. Snodgrass published his debut volume, Heart's Needle, in 1959, he opened the floodgates for an autobiographical, emotionally raw style of poetry that was quickly—and aptly—labeled confessional. Close on the heels of his Pulitzer prize-winning book came soul-baring volumes by his teacher Robert Lowell and his contemporaries Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Although these others surpassed him in fame, Snodgrass was the one who started it all.
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