C.E. Chaffin and Guest Editor Sharon Kourous share notes on Paternal Melic and the upcoming poetry class. "I think it makes for better art to believe in God than not, and though a bad reason for belief, is better than none." "The contemporary disavowal of commitment in art, the kinds of excesses of much language poetry and post-modern splinterings of any concept of responsibility or ethics, can be in their own way just as tyrannical as any ideology."     go now

Break of Day*   —John Donne     Acquainted With the Night*   —Robert Frost Lines for an Old Man*   —T.S. Eliot     The Magi*   —W.B. Yeats

	For Boys Who Lie in the Dark   —Seth Abramson
	In Cherokee Wood   —BS Allen			Thirty-Six Hours into Healing   —Richard Beban
	Eclipse   —Lucile Blanchard			Poem Without the Word "BONE"   —Larry Fontenot
	Those Were the Days: Bladder Wrack   —Ted Burford			Your Cat Gives You...   —R.J. McCaffery
	Remembering Him   —Bob Elliott			Five poems from "FOTO"   —Michael Peverett
	Father's Return   —Joan Houlihan			Mother's Day   —Misha Weidman
	My Father Was a Carpenter   —Sharon Kourous			A Certain Blindness   —Teri Zipf
	My Mother Knitting   —Kate Murphy
	(I wanted to)   —Shann Palmer
	Elegy for R.J.   —Scott Reid

In Season     By Michael Largo Sometimes he patted me on the back and I hated that. Together, the Choir Grows Old     By Richard Weems Back home, we indulge in danish and petite-four and macrobiotic sticky buns...		Lovers Coupling in an Abandoned Cemetery   —Bea Ericson Market Watch   —Sharon Kourous Mixed Conception (wife to Max Ernst)   —Robyn Su Millerz Why I Can't Write Poems in the Summer   —John G. Gregory, Jr.
* Note: The understanding of the editors of the Melic Review is that audio sampling the works of famous poets and subsequently posting such samples on a web site does not constitute "publication," and as such is not a violation of copyright law. If any person can provide us with information to suggest the contrary, we would be happy to remove all such audio samples from this web site. These samples are included here for educational purposes only; that is, for the continued instruction of beginning and intermediate poets in the area of 'music' in poetry. They are not to be reproduced or distributed under any circumstances.