poetry quarterly

10th anniversary

Volume 13:3, Summer 2012

POETS IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE

Introduction
by Michael Gushue, Guest Co-Editor


Table of Contents

Pepper Smith, Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Federal Worker

A.B. Spellman, Meeting

Laura Fargas, Erg
.........................Argument, Dole v. Arco

Ed Zahniser, From Dung Beetles to Bingo

Grace Cavalieri, Working for the Government

Terence Winch, Annual Report
...........................Case Statement

Barbara DeCesare, Your Favorite Number

Donald Illich, The Sick Person
.......................The Commuter

Nancy Allinson, Friday Night

Paulette Beete, The Woman's Wardrobe
...........................The Maker of Memorials

J. H. Beall, The 'Thinghood' of Monuments
....................
Red-Winged Blackbird at Gettysburg Field

Greg McBride, After Memo-Writing

Jaime Lee Jarvis, Paperwork, Your Name is Martha

Susanne Bostick Allen, Black Hawk Waltz

Davi Walders, Peer Review

Pamela Murray Winters, Shelter in Place

Paul T. Hopper, Multitasking

Susan Mahan, Spectacles

Patricia Gray, Fingering the Past

Carol Dorf, Gravity

Mark Osaki, Preserve

Karen Sagstetter, No Crying in Baseball

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, J. Edgar Song

Carol J. Jennings, Office Suicide


M.A. Schaffner, Cratchit's Christmas
............................United and the PBGC