Poetry and the Body

Birthing the Body

"Childbirth, Seaform Glass"
Kelli Russell Agodon
"Nine"
Gary L. McDowell
"Taking a Bath with a Four-Month Old"
Martha Silano

Body Parts

"While the Bathtub Is Filling"
Lana Hechtman Ayers
"Study of an Object at Rest"; and
"The Macro Lens Feeds, in Part, on Human Skin"
Arlene Ang
"Upon a Severed Hand"
Brendan Babish
"Hand (the Fingers)"
Stephanie Berger
"Fingernails"
Jeannine Hall Gailey
"Achilles"
Donald Illich
"Prints"
David Trame

The Medical Body

"Self-Portrait with Optic Neuritis"
Kelli Russell Agodon
"Dr. Beaurieux Observes"
Ivy Alvarez
"Recovery Room"
Bob Guter
"Take Two at Night for Pain"
Kathryn Hunt
"Fairy Tale Eating Disorders"
Collin Kelley
"Deep Vein Thrombosis"
Gary Winans
"Infirmary"
Sarah Sloat

The Erotic Body

"Vespers of the Lonely Ladies"
Kelli Russell Agodon
"Hybrid"; "Eyeing the Butcher"; "I Am Your Winged Torso of Eros"
Jeff Crandall
"Geography"
Kathryn Hunt
"Falling in Love with a Girl with a Facial Tic";
"You Will Disregard the Following Directives"
Michael Lynch
"Faith"
CR Manley

The Political Body

"Con Lai"
Kevin Minh Allen
"Fragment from a Nonexistant Yiddish Poet, #19";"Bystander"; "Barn Burning"
Jehanne Dubrow
"In My Dreams, I am Always Running with the Dead"
Justin Evans
"Human Trafficking"
Collin Kelley

Body & Soul

"Night Terrors"
Edward Byrne
"Congress of the Shroud"
Wayne Johns
"Spring Hill"
Collin Kelley
"You've Been Getting Calls"
Jared Leising
"body and soul"
James Lineberger
"The Sin Sonnets"
Amy Newman


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