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Authors

Albino Carrillo

Aleister Guisinger

anthony freeman

Aryanil Mukherjee

Charles Thielman

Christine Ferran

Christopher Moylan

Christopher Mulrooney

Claudia K. Grinnell

Daniel Connor Wood

David Hunter Sutherland

David Thomas Lisk

Dianna L. Zimmerman

Elide V. Oliver

Francisco Aragon

G. David Schwartz

Harshvardhan Asopa

Herbert Woodward Martin

Iago Xavier Montoya

Janice D- Soderling

Jean-Philippe Cazier

Jefferson Adams

Jekwu Anyaegbuna

Jo Nease Krause

Joanna Kurowska

José Hernando Chaves

Kirsten Halling

Lauren Bittrich

Léon-Gontran Damas

Louis Martínez

Mark DeCarteret

Martha Modena Vertreace

Melanie Sevcenko

Michael Haeflinger

Michael Estabrook

Michael J. Opperman

Michael R. Collings

Mike Berger, Ph.D.

Miriam N. Kotzin

Priyanka Bhowmick

Ramón E. Martínez

Rebecca Mumford

Richard K. Ostrander

Richard Kostelanetz

Richard O'Connell

Rodrigo Garcia Lopes

Shelly Ettinger

Stephen Russell Mayberry

Stephie Pendleton

stephie pendleton

Tanja Sofia Krupa

Valerie Bassett

Vassilis Zambaras

Articles by Category

MaverickMagazine 1

Dandelion Fireworks

"Gently Bent to Ease Us"

When Stephen's Ghost Falls to Roppongi

A Letter to My Brothers and Sisters in North Korea

THE LESSONS OF SMOKED FISH, BEAR CLAWS & AMERICAN BARBECUE

Memory and Repetition

Dear Michael, Dear Harper

Maricopa Indian Graveyard

The Greater Trumps

Seeing in the True Light

Feature Poet 1: Ramón E. Martínez

Touch-Tone for Sylvia

The Receipt of Fern Seed

Billet-doux (Love's token)

The Badger King Drinks, Dreams Horses Watches TV

Stephen You Need To Be Talked To

Biltoki's in Elko

The Artist as Lord of Creation

Swimming in the True Light

AFTER THE PERSIAN GULF WAR (March-June 1991)

Full Moon: June 30/July 1

Catching Faeries

LINES TO BE SPOKEN BY PAT GARRETT, WHEN OLDER

ONE MORE POEM ABOUT BILLY THE KID

Survivor at the Burning Cistern

Virelay for Bessie

Quitting This Star

Feature Poet 1: Ramón E. Martínez

Dandelion Fireworks

Dear Michael, Dear Harper

Maricopa Indian Graveyard

The Greater Trumps

Seeing in the True Light

Feature Poet 1: Ramón E. Martínez

Touch-Tone for Sylvia

The Receipt of Fern Seed

Survivor at the Burning Cistern

Virelay for Bessie

Quitting This Star

MaverickMagazine 2

Tearing It Down

Beautiful Amateurs Bare All

(MURAL) (MONDO) (NULFRESCO)

JUST HOLD THE TESTER IN YOUR URINE STREAM

To John Berryman

The Real Question

A Note from the Managing Editor

Biography: Martha Modena Vertreace

Moon--What Next?

Finding Loose Change

Feature Poet 2: Martha Modena Vertreace

Biography: Martha Modena Vertreace

Moon--What Next?

Finding Loose Change

MaverickMagazine 3

THE UNSUBSCRIBER

I FOLLOWED JAMES WRIGHT

DES MOINES ART CENTER, SEPTEMBER

ALFRED'S TESTAMENT

EKPHRASIS OF THE FLOOD LEONARDO NEVER PAINTED

ABOUT LIFE ON MARS

MIDNIGHT PASSES OVER THE PLAZA DE LA REVOLUCION

SELF(THE POET PASSÉ)PORTRAIT

Feature Poet 3: Bill Knott

LIFEGUARD CLINGING TO A STEEPLE

EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF DAMOCLES

AN INSTRUCTOR'S DREAM

THE NEW YORK TIMES

THAT SORT OF THING

Who Killed Phoebe Caulfield?

IMMODERATE LOVE, SIX QUINTETS, SUNG WITH GUSTO

THE UNDERDEVELOPED SHOTS

I Deliver a Bag of Groceries to Death's Apartment

MY BRIEF LOVE FOR YOU HELD THESE THINGS

THE GREEN HOUSE

PAUL BUNYAN, INC.

Feature Poet 3: Bill Knott

THE UNSUBSCRIBER

SELF(THE POET PASSÉ)PORTRAIT

Feature Poet 3: Bill Knott

LIFEGUARD CLINGING TO A STEEPLE

EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF DAMOCLES

AN INSTRUCTOR'S DREAM

MaverickMagazine 4

BUILDING THE RIVER

TRANSFORMING INTO THE GREAT QUETZAL MUSTELLA, MICKEY ADDRESSES THE VOTING SHAREHOLDERS AT BUENA VISTA

THE BOOM OF APACHE GOOD LUCK IN AN IRON AGE: THE RELATIVE AND THE ULTIMATE

SICKENED, ELK TANGOES IN APACHE LAND

ON THE EVE OF WOLF'S EXTINCTION, A RADIO MESSAGE AT THE EDGE OF SPACE

CROW RECORDS THE IMPENDING DARKNESS--AS TOLD TO BEAR

MAVERICK (RE)VISIONS

MAVERICK (HIS)TORY: ABOUT PHIL LEVINE

Feature Poet 4: Henry Oso Quintero

COYOTE COMMENTS ON THE EVENING NEWS IN FRONT OF KINGS TV AND ELECTRONICS, WESTWOOD, CA.

BIRD WING, WEST VIRGINIA

THE RED OX CRASHING THROUGH A WINDOW

SKETCH FOR A 13 MINUTE VIDEO: TEZCATLIPOCA'S 32, A 6th POSITION

A SMALL REVOLUTION

ALLEN JAFFE, DEAD AT 59

FOR JIM, HUNTING

VIOLENT PROGRESS

Feature Poet 4: Henry Oso Quintero

TRANSFORMING INTO THE GREAT QUETZAL MUSTELLA, MICKEY ADDRESSES THE VOTING SHAREHOLDERS AT BUENA VISTA

THE BOOM OF APACHE GOOD LUCK IN AN IRON AGE: THE RELATIVE AND THE ULTIMATE

SICKENED, ELK TANGOES IN APACHE LAND

ON THE EVE OF WOLF'S EXTINCTION, A RADIO MESSAGE AT THE EDGE OF SPACE

CROW RECORDS THE IMPENDING DARKNESS--AS TOLD TO BEAR

MAVERICK (RE)VISIONS

MAVERICK (HIS)TORY: ABOUT PHIL LEVINE

Feature Poet 4: Henry Oso Quintero

COYOTE COMMENTS ON THE EVENING NEWS IN FRONT OF KINGS TV AND ELECTRONICS, WESTWOOD, CA.

MaverickMagazine 5

Feature Poet 5: Mac Oliver

THE INGRESS OF YEARN

A SAVIOR'S SUNBURN

A BRANDO POEM (sort of)

LAPSED BATH @ THE COLUMNS IIIIIIIVV (#2)

LAPSED BATH @ THE COLUMNS IIIIIIIVV (#1)

HIGH ORDER CENTRAL PLACES

"This Makes Him a Hermes"

GALLA PLACIDIA IN BLU

YES, YOU, MAVERICK

COTTONWOOD, LAKE OF THE ISLES, MINNEAPOLIS: JUNE 7, 2000

THE WINDS FROM MT. NASU

THE BARBER'S CHAIR

THE SLOW MUSIC OF SUMMER

AFTER READING A VERSE FROM THE HOLY QURAN, HUITZILOPOCHTLI, IN THE AUTUMN LIGHT EXPLAINS TO HIS YOUNG SCRIBES THE OVERWHELMING EVENT

A WORD FROM MAVERICK CONCERNING RECENT HORRIFIC EVENTS

CEAUSCESCU'S DIRTY EAR

THE END OF NARRATIVE

CATASTROPHE MUSIC

THE HUMMING BIRD, OR FAMOUS LADY POET FEELS FEAR

Feature Poet 5: Mac Oliver

Feature Poet 5: Mac Oliver

LAPSED BATH @ THE COLUMNS IIIIIIIVV (#2)

LAPSED BATH @ THE COLUMNS IIIIIIIVV (#1)

HIGH ORDER CENTRAL PLACES

"This Makes Him a Hermes"

MaverickMagazine 6/7

SON OF SISYPHUS

THE FIRE INSIDE (WHY I WRITE)

THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1949

SUPPOSEDLY, SHE NEVER HAD SEX

ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN CAUSED BY PROCRASTINATION: THERE IS A CHOICE

ON A PLASTIC BLOW-UP RAFT IN THE MIDDLE OF TEN-MILE LAKE

I AM SEDUCED BY GEORGIA'S FLOWERS

THE MASON PARTY

SEVEN DIRECTIONS

EVERYDAY, MY EARTH

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

A Note from the Managing Editor

TUMBLEWEEDS ON DESERT FLOORS

Feature Poet 6/7: Eva Skrande

THE MASON PARTY

SEVEN DIRECTIONS

EVERYDAY, MY EARTH

MaverickMagazine 8

AN OUTREMERICAN SPEAKS

AT THE WOLF HOUR

THE PAPERWEIGHT

CATCH OF THE DAY

A Note from the Editor

TWO DRAGONFLIES

SOUTHERN CORONATION

FORTUNATA AND HYACINTH

"FROM THE MARGINS OF THE BLACKS"

DRUG OF YOUR CHOICE

THE SCORPION KING

SLEIPNIR AND THE KINDRED SPIRITS

CELESTIAL LONGING

ZAGAT ZOO 30 30 30

THE DURACELL RABBIT RUNS DOWN

POEM OF INNOCENCE

The Colonial Instinct, St. Croix Watershed 2002

Still-Life, Hennepin County Minnesota, 1996

WAR

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF

A FACE FAMILIAR TO ME ONCE

Feature Poet 8: Howard Fisch

ZAGAT ZOO 30 30 30

THE DURACELL RABBIT RUNS DOWN

POEM OF INNOCENCE

MaverickMagazine 9

WE ARE THE ENEMY

THERE ONCE WAS AN OLD WOMAN

AFTER THE PERSIAN GULF WAR (March-June 1991)

THE PRACTICE OF SEVERAL STIGMATICS

ON MY SIDE, LIGHTS OFF, NUDE

MANIC CENTENARIAN WITH A LOVE FOR BIG BAND: CASE #307

DINNER WITH THE YAMAMOTOS IN A GINZA BEEF AND SEAFOOD HOUSE

CONTINUOUS POOL WITH LAMB BUTCHERS ON THE BANK OF JING BUE LAKE

UPON AN OLD SAYING

THE STAGNANT REASSURANCE OF THE DEAD

MY LOVER'S NAME

FRESH YA SHAMBA

HAVE YOU TRIED AFGHANISTAN?

TO MY DEAR COMRADES WRITING ABOUT THE WAR AGAINST ISLAM

THE SPACE BETWEEN RAIN

THEY WILL NEVER RETURN

DISSENT & JUSTICE IN WARTIME

BUYING LIFE INSURANCE

Feature Poet 9: Mark DeCarteret

MaverickMagazine 10

DEBTS AND FALSIES

MARTHA'S MOMENT

BEFORE HAVING RED WINE WHILE THE WASHER GOES TO SPIN CYCLE WITH WHAT SHE'LL SLEEP IN

CORNERS FORMING ROOMS

NAVIGATING TROUBLED WATERS

RE-WRITING CAMILLE

JAILED GENET (IN HONOR)

YESTERDAY'S RATIONS

TOOTHLESS, HUNGRY & WILD

THE PRACTICE OF PROPAGATING LIGHT

CHILDREN OF CADMUS

WHEN IN SPITE OF MYSELF

TO LOVE JUST LIKE YESTERDAY

THERE IS NO ENDURING NOON

I THINK OF LOVE'S SAFETY AS I FLEE

ALWAYS THOSE WORDS

Tornado Weather

Memorial Day, May 1954

The Reagan Revolution

ROMANCE NUEVO MEXICANO

PRIESTS OF THESE ATLANTIC TEMPLES

Wishes, Lies & Dreams

I WISH HE'D SAY

THE POETS OF THE LATIN DECADENCE

Special Feature 10: Léon-Gontran Damas

WHEN IN SPITE OF MYSELF

TO LOVE JUST LIKE YESTERDAY

THERE IS NO ENDURING NOON

I THINK OF LOVE'S SAFETY AS I FLEE

ALWAYS THOSE WORDS

Feature Poet 10: Allison Eastley

THE PRACTICE OF PROPAGATING LIGHT

CHILDREN OF CADMUS

I WISH HE'D SAY

MaverickMagazine 11

More rich foam: its first meal

Her body traced, the grass

Each child as the moon

"MARINE SHOT UNARMED PRISONER"

THE PETTING ZOO

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JULES VERNE

LIFEGUARD CLINGING TO A STEEPLE

FRAGMENTS FROM THE BEACH

MARIACHIS AND MINE YIDDISH MAMMALEH ON THE #7 TRAIN

BLOOD SPORT: A GEOGRAPHY

JACKSON POLLACK, ET AL.

THE SHALLOW HOLLOW IN THE RIVER OUTSIDE JILIN CITY

NAN HU PARK, CHANG CHUN

MU YU DRUMS, CHANG CHUN, 1991

OUTSIDE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS

ZAP

PRAYER FOR SAFE TRAVEL

REMEMBER THE TAR BABY!

Feature Poet 11: Aaron Anstett

ZAP

PRAYER FOR SAFE TRAVEL

MaverickMagazine 12

OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

SIDEWAYS ACROSS SAND

FLUX OF THIEVES, CANTO 25

BETWEEN WATER AND SONG

AGING GODESS SEEKS COMPANION, UNDERSTUDY

A WOMAN'S FOOT IS NOT A SMALL MAN'S, OR, LESSONS FROM AFTER-SCHOOL WORK AT A LADIES' SHOE STORE

V

PRAIRIE DUST AND TIME

COAST TO COAST ON THE CHEMTRAIL

BEHIND THE HOUSE OF LORE

AFTER THE CATACLYSM

NOTHING SCARES ME MORE

JAKE, REMEMBERING THE BAR FIGHT

FLEEING TO CANADA

ALTERNATIVE TO NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

THE SAME SAVAGE CRY

IN SUMMER, WHEN IT IS WARM

BILLS OF MORTALITY

TO THE FEW CHINESE AT DACHAU

THE FEVER ROOM: CHANG CHUN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 1991

COCA COLA IN THE CHANG CHUN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 1991

H. WRITES OUT THE SADNESS IN HIS HEART

ATTENTION TO DETAILS HATES SLEEP

DIG

THE MAN AND THE WOLF

HURRICANE GEORGE!

PESSOA CROSSES THE ATLANTIC TO MEET SOME NORTH AMERICANS

Tracy Ginsberg - Introduction

ANNALS OF VOLUSIUS

Feature Poet 12: Maria Melendez

ODA A DOÑA LANCHA

BETWEEN WATER AND SONG

AGING GODESS SEEKS COMPANION, UNDERSTUDY

A WOMAN'S FOOT IS NOT A SMALL MAN'S, OR, LESSONS FROM AFTER-SCHOOL WORK AT A LADIES' SHOE STORE

MaverickMagazine 13/14

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I FELT THIS WAY. THIS BUTTER IN MY GUT. LIKE MOTHS HATCHING

AS HE TALKED I WATCHED HIS BLACK MOUSTACHE, AND THE FLAP OF LOOSE SKIN ROTTING OFF HIS CHEEK

SIDEWAYS ACROSS SAND

GRATIS & GRATITUDE

WE'LL HANG SADDAM HUSSEIN

WAR IS NOT HEALTHY...ALL OVER BUT THE SLOGANS

SONATA FOR CROWS

DOS POEMAS EN ESPAÑOL

ALL THIS MAY DAY

POEM FOR CHRISTOPHER SALAS, 1964-1997(?)

PESSOA CROSSES THE ATLANTIC TO MEET SOME NORTH AMERICANS

ON HEARING DRAFT FILES WERE BURNT IN MARYLAND

INVENTING THE SNOWSHOVEL

ALL THE WE HAVE NOT LEFT BEHIND: THOUGHTS ON WAR, LIES ABOUT WAR, & THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE FOURTH NIXON ADMINISTRATION

Tracy Ginsberg - Introduction

Special Feature 13/14: Richard Ostrander

Feature Poet 13/14 - Janaka Stucky

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I FELT THIS WAY. THIS BUTTER IN MY GUT. LIKE MOTHS HATCHING

AS HE TALKED I WATCHED HIS BLACK MOUSTACHE, AND THE FLAP OF LOOSE SKIN ROTTING OFF HIS CHEEK

Maverick Magazine 15/16

No Wonder Horace

grocery shopping in the valley of the clueless

Could It Have Been?

My Nine-year-old Daughter in Pompeii

Van Gogh’s “Self Portrait” at The Orsay

Venice’s Bottom

What I Learned Today

To Sacrifice a Bavarian Roadster

Meditation with Oh

Contemplation with Weary Travelers

Interior Housekeeping

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