ISSUE 41
November 2008

C. Wade Bentley


THE CORTLAND REVIEW

INTERVIEW
Ross Gay
 

POETRY
C. Wade Bentley This marks an author's first online publication
Bonnie Bolling
Gabriel DeCrease
Pamela Hart
Roger Jones
Robert Lesman This marks an author's first online publication
James B. Nicola
Chad Prevost
Mark Prudowsky
Cassandra Robison
Michael Shorb
Avery Slater This marks an author's first online publication
Josh Stewart
Elisabeth von Uhl This marks an author's first online publication
Muriel Harris
     Weinstein
This marks an author's first online publication
 

FICTION
Paul Blaney This marks an author's first online publication
Neil Grimmett
 

BOOK REVIEWS
David Rigsbee
reviews All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg

David Rigsbee

reviews Heat Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1986—2006 by Judith Skillman

 

This marks an author's first online publication C. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University. His poems have recently appeared in Green Mountains Review, Pebble Lake Review, Cimarron Review, Jabberwock Review, Best New Poets 2007, and Connecticut Review.

First Day of Spring    


Ice pellets
scatter-shot
from Lake Michigan
goose- and gull-
shit on the walk
I can't hear the music
for the wind
but see the Ferris wheel
winding
out on the Pier
imagine
the first kid of the season
tossing in his seat
at the top
laughing
screaming

 

 

C. Wade Bentley: Poetry
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