Students of Kim Addonizio

Conversation with
Kim Addonizio

The Spring 2020 issue features a special tribute section of poems written by students of Kim Addonizio’s poetry workshops (as well as one poem by Kim herself). Kim is as extraordinary a teacher as she is a poet, a fact that’s apparent in the rich, accomplished work of her students. She shares candidly about her teaching philosophy in a conversation with Alan Fox, as well as her approach to writing, and there’s much for both new and experienced poets to glean from her insights.

In the open section, the poems themselves are as good as their titles: “The Cow I Didn’t Eat.” “Social Experiments in Which I Am the [Bear].” “Ode to the Mattress on the Side of the Interstate.” Diverse as always, the new issue features a poem written in “the imagined voice of Frida Kahlo” (Barbara Lydecker Crane), “Young Dyke” by Alison Hazle (“This was my surname/for years. I wore it/like some fucking/Birkenstocks.”), a duo of triolets by Carolyne Wright, and much more.

	Kim Addonizio & Students
	Kim Addonizio	Sestina: Writing
	Karen Benke	After the Affair
	Susan Browne	Duct Tape, Sleep, Pretzels
	X.P. Callahan	Pink Mountain
	Eleanor Channell	Rivermouth
	Steve Cushman	My Neighbor
	Cheryl Dumesnil	Today’s Sermon
	Sarah Freligh	Wild Me
	In Koo Kim	The Commuters of Penn Station Want to Go Home
	Tracey Knapp	Weather Report with Turkeys
	Anja Konig	After the Election
	Marie-Elizabeth Mali	Diving
	Clint Margrave	The Meta-Metamorphosis
	Amy Miller	Higher Love
	Karen Moulton	It’s Getting Late
	Ann Tweedy	Vanishing Point
	Sharry Wright	Looking In
	Open Poetry
	George Bilgere	Chernobyl
		No Problem
	Lollie Butler	The Cow I Didn’t Eat
	Erik Campbell	The Vikings Between Us
	Barbara Lydecker Crane	You Will Remember Me
	William Evans	Social Experiments in Which I Am the [Bear]
	William Fargason	Ode to the Mattress on the Side of the Interstate
	Dan Gerber	What I Remember of World War II
	Lola Haskins	Touring the Lower Oklawaha
	Alison Hazle	Young Dyke
	Matt Marinovich	Mr. Pescado
	Day Mattar	For Attention
	Richard Prins	Arrest This Poem
	Marjorie Saiser	I Was Charmed by the Dirt Road
	Dondre Scott	How Black Are You? #8
	Emily Sernaker	Lucky Enough
	Kenny Tanemura	Skills
	William Trowbridge	Fool Invents the Piano, 1250 A.D.
	Charles Harper Webb	Crabby
	Carolyne Wright	Triolets on a Dune Shack
	Joseph Zaccardi	The Hat
	Conversation
	Kim Addonizio (web)
	Cover Art
	Elizabeth Sanderson