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<br>
Dear Boxcar Friends,<br>
<br>
We are pleased to announce that Issue 12 is now online and ready to be
read! Great poems, great reviews, and a great conversation between first
book poets. <br>
<br>
Like the boy in this issue's cover photo by Jon Kersey, we find ourselves in
this issue straddling two worlds, peering into the waters to see what lies
ahead and beneath. We begin with a bullet train, end with a road trip, and
encounter the beautiful, the bright, the dark, and the emphemeral along the
way. <br>
<br>
In this issue's poems, we are also pleased to feature great reviews of Ivy
Alvarez's <i>Mortal</i> and Karen Harryman's <i>Auto Mechanic's Daughter</i>,
as well as the first half of a conversation between two first book poets, Ivy
Alvarez and Lee Herrick. Jon Kersey's photography adds yet another dimension to
this first issue of 2008. <br>
<br>
Check out the end of this email for some important announcements regarding the
2007 Oboh Prize winners, the 2006 print anthology, and our table at the
upcoming AWP book fair in NYC.<br>
<br>
Read it here: <a href="http://www.boxcarpoetry.com">www.boxcarpoetry.com</a><br>
<br>
In this issue:<br>
<br>
<b>Poetry</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Cristiana Baik: "Dear Nozomi, I will arrive
to the destination first" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Rachel Bunting: "Lot's Daughters" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Clark Chatlain: "Flathead Lake" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Frankie Drayus: "Dispatch" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Brent Fisk: "When Adam Falls from
Sleep" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Donna Huneke: "On Sundays she sets the
sun" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>John Johnson: "Light Sleeper" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Laura Powers: "Dying Like Eurydice in
Idaho's Backcountry" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Brian Simoneau: "Funeral With Cherry
Blossoms Falling" <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Charles Springer: "Roadies" <o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Reviews</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'>Ivy Alvarez's Mortal ~ Craig Santos Perez <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'>Karen Harryman's Auto Mechanic's Daughter ~ Kate
Durbin <o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Conversation</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'>Ivy Alvarez & Lee Herrick in Conversation
Part 1 <o:p></o:p></li>
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<b>Photography</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'>Jon Kersey (2 images) <o:p></o:p></li>
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<b>ANNOUNCEMENTS</b><br>
<br>
<b>2007 Oboh Prize Winners </b><br>
<br>
We are also pleased to announce that Amanda Yskamp's poem "Not Home"
was selected as the Oboh Prize / Best Poem of the Year by our external judge
Rebecca Seiferle. Second place was awarded to James Owens' "Is"
and third place to Robin Halevy's "This, Unspoken." The winning
poems were chosen from the pool of Peer Award winners and runners-up (2nd and
3rd place finishes) for 2007. The final judging was done blindly -- all
names were removed from the entries and were judged on their individual merit
by the external judge. <br>
<br>
Regarding the winning poem "Not Home" by Amanda Yskamp, Rebecca
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>For all of its evocative phrases "carbon remnants
of what she said" or the play upon 'we were best of buds," this poem
is most compelling in its voice-- wry, argumentative, shrewdly hip--and the way
that voice accelerates in intensity toward closure and encounter. Beginning
with "there's a reason for this," the voice conveys the overly
determined "why" and '"probably why" of being reasonable,
being unravelled by passion; the speaker daring, finally, to take on 'crazy':
"I'll show you/ crazy, I'll show you it's my life you're in, not the other
way around." There's not a moment in the poem where the poet slips out of
voice, and it's particularly crafty how the poem conflates the "you"
of the she- replied-to with the ''you" of the reader. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
<br>
Boxcar Poetry Review 2006 Anthology for sale at <a href="http://Lulu.com">Lulu.com</a>
(and soon through Amazon)<br>
<br>
The much delayed and anticipated 2006 anthology is now out. We chose one
poem from each of the poets we published in 2006 and assembled a collection of
some of the finest poetry available. <br>
<br>
Edited by Neil Aitken, this anthology features work from 54 poets including
Mary Alexandra Agner, Arlene Ang, Christopher Buckley, Jared Carter, Michael
Catherwood, George David Clark, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Anne Haines, Alexander
Long, Rachel Mallino, Marty McConnell, Barbara Jane Reyes, Patrick Rosal, Erin
Elizabeth Smith, and many more published in Boxcar Poetry Review during 2006.<br>
<br>
Click here for the Lulu link to purchase or peruse: <a
href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1749273">http://www.lulu.com/content/1749273</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Boxcar Poets Make a Big Impression in The Best of the Net 2007 Anthology<br>
<br>
We are pleased to announce that three poems from Boxcar Poetry Review have been
selected for Sundress Press's Best of the Net 2007 Anthology: <o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>"Forget" by Tamiko Beyer (Issue 7 - Mar
2007) <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>"Marrying the Violence" by Marty
McConnell (Issue 4 - Sept 2006) <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>"How We're Moved" by Heather Salus
(Issue 6 - Jan 2007) <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
Congratulations to these poets on this accomplishment! Poet Chad Davidson
served as final judge. Evidently only 20 poems were chosen out of all the
poems published online between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. I'd
consider 3/20 a pretty remarkable showing for our journal!<br>
Boxcar Poetry Review Comes to AWP in NYC<br>
<br>
Boxcar will be in the book fair this year. Come by and visit us at
Table 524 in the Hall of the Americas II in the Hilton! Copies of the
2006 anthology will be available for sale. If you're interested in doing
book signings at our table, we'd be happy to fit you into our schedule.
Please contact us for more information. <br>
<br>
Once again, it has been a great pleasure to see such great poetry come together
in each issue. I hope you enjoy our first issue of 2008 as much as we
have.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
Neil Aitken, Editor<br>
Boxcar Poetry Review <br>
<br>
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