Volume 5, Spring 2005

This issue of Dogwood is dedicated to Professor Janet Krauss in honor of her devotion to poetry and the Fairfield University community.  We offer warm congratulations on her book of poetry, “Borrowed Scenery.” The cover art is by Suzanne Chamlin, a Professor at fairfield University.

Editors

Michael C. White

Kim Bridgford

Contest Judges

Mark Jarman

Nicholas Rinaldi

Poetry

First Prize Award:
Martha Greenwald, “FindAnyone.com”

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Carol Gilbertson, “Night Rising“

Keinard Kress, “Harmonium”

Gabriel Spera, “Cabbageworm,” “The Bargain”

Lyn Lifshin, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941″

J.C. Todd, “In late summer the sea comes to the city”

Maria Terrone, “In the Land of Emperors”

Max Garland, “Kings of the Lilies”

Max Garland, “For No Man Would Say He Did a Favor to the Fountain by Drinking, or to the Light by Seeing”

Rande Mack, “beauty”

Elton Glaser, “Prayer to a Drowsy God,”   “On or about the Feast of Saint Absentia”

Rebecca Dunham, “Black Frost”

MaryAnn Franta Moenck, “Where Was He When He Stood in the Middle of the Room”

J.D. Smith, “A Cremation”

Eugene Gloria, “Diane Arbus Prowls Our Street”

Deborah DeNicola, “Early Childhood”

 Sandra Beasley, “The Gemini Jings”

Caki Wilkinson, “Ash Wednesday”

Elinor Benedict, “Metamorphosis Among the Vegetables”

Rita Bowles, “Anomalies Happen”

Michelle Bitting, “Sacrament”

David Mook, “Lake Galena”

T. John Estes, “Annunciation”

Marilyn Annucci, “Cosmography”

David C. Meyer, “The Fellowship of the Living Dead”

Chad Woody, “Dust”

Luann Landon, “I Died for Classic– but was scarce ”

Bruces Bennet, “How I Love You”

Midge C. Goldberg, “Flume Ride”

Margaret J. Hoehn, “The Language of Rain,”  “Season of Apples”

Fiction

First Prize Award:
Amy Eleanor Parker “A Hand of Rain”

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Amy Eleanor Parker, “A Hand of Rain”

Patricia O’Donnell, “Helen of Troy”

Eric Gabriel Lehman, ” Lovers in a Damp Climate”

Marianne Taylor, “Who is The Hardware”

Rick Halpern, “The World’s Strongest Man”

Susi Klare, “Thing Could Go Either Way”