summer 2014
Welcome to the long awaited edition of Chaparral–featuring an interview with Douglas Kearney and new work from talented newcomers, such as Nikolai Garcia and Trista Payte. Whether it’s Antoinette Vawter’s haunting pantoum or Florence Weinberger’s, “The Dream Inside Out,” in which Wanda Coleman makes an appearance–each poem is an inquiry, an investigation, a language, and a world.
Interview with Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney and Itiola Stephanie Jones
Muscle Memory
Ground Keeping
The Beautiful House
The Navajo Route to the Reincarnated
Unlearn the Constellations
Confessional Poem #1
While Sitting On the Tijuana Border
Whatever Happened to New York?
Flesh
Olly olly oxen free
I Write, the Monkey Writes
Dear Rachel Z.,
Walking Accross a Cemetery
Tree
A Vessel Made to Hold Nothing
The Dream Inside Out
We are dying tomorrow
And in those haunches I’ll build a cavern
