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Mantis 21

Introduction to Mantis 21

Introduction

- Jason M. Beckman

Exchanging Cups :
Contemporary Sake Poetry

Introduction by Katherine Whatley

by:

Asahi Chiyo
Ayabe Bokusui
Bonkuranaosu
Brewer Poet
Goto Noriyuki
Goto Susumu

Hanada Atsuko
Hara Hiroko
Hayakawa Michiko
Hojo Koyomi
Hoshihara Fudo
Keigetsu

Kimura Hiroshi
Kiuchi Miyuki
Kondo Yoshihiro
Mabuchi Sadazou
Masaki Rika
Murakami Atsushi

Murakami Hideo
Nagahata Takanori
Nakamura Sayoko
Nishibe Minoru
Nishiguchi Akiko
Nogami Taku

Okumura Toshio
Okuyama Isao
Onogi
Otsuka Miho
Sadao
Sato Saiichiro

Soejima Kimiyo
Sugimoto Keiji
Tanaka Tetsuo
The Dancing Veganista
Yoshimura Takuko

translated by:

Nancy Hamilton

Gabriele Kemesyte

Emily Wan

Katherine Whatley

To Raise a Glass, or Down it:
Poems for Our Spirits

Invocation by Jason M. Beckman

Sher Ting Chim

Whoever Says Everything Gets Better
With Age Has Never Drunk Snake Wine

Christopher Honey

A Dirty, Badly Lit Place

Jeff Schiff

They’ll drunk

Vicky MacDonald Harris

The Whisky Had Other Plans

Brandon Marlo

Zero

Maggie Bowyer

A Rough Draft of the Drunk Text
I am Typing from the Bar Bathroom

Nupur Maskara

It’s the Wine Talking

Gary Bunting

Fuzzy Outtakes

John Peter Beck

Pinochle Poem #1

David J.S. Pickering

Pain Has No Memory in
Rockaway Beach Oregon

Jenna Cardinale

Two Dreams

Mark Schmidt

Anticlimax

Will Berry

“Jacob, Jacob.”

Translations

Kumar Pranjal Rai
translated by Pitamber Kaushik

The River, Dreams, and
Your Whereabouts

Carolina Esses
translated by Allison deFreese

My memory was never any good,
my friend
Where does my house sit, my friend?

Okura of Yama-no-Ue
translated by Seiji Hakui

A Song to Miss a Boy Name Furuhi, followed by two Envois

George Sarantaris
translated by Pria Louka

Three Poems

Rolf Gjedsted
translated by Michael Favala Goldman

To Keep from Burning Up

Muyaka Bin Haji Al-Ghassaniy
translated by Richard Prins

Three Poems

Poetry from Ukraine

New Poetry in English

Janelle Cordero

Damn It All to Hell
Halloween, 1994
Redneck Foundation

Kyra Spence

Egrets on Route 41

Sarah Horner

Cathedral, Crumbling

Anon Baisch

my Mother died 29 days ago

Erika Kielsgard

Orchis militaris

M.P. Carver

You Have Secrets but They’re
Nothing Special
Quiescent
Yor Hat

Kenton K. Yee

It’s Accrual World

Sarah Aziz

father tongue

Ranjith Sivaraman

Moments without You

Emma Wells

Countess

Abigail Kirby Conklin

La Nouvelle Cuisine
Seasonal Kool-Aid

Corrie Thompson

Relentless

Kevin Lemaster

10,000 Hours (or the time it takes)

Ariana Moulton

Out of Office

Tohm Bakelas

tohm bakelas plays poetry

Emma Mooney

Wild Swimming
Lady Hall

Enne Baker

Star Scars

Rajendra Persaud

Pink Sherbet Meridian, or the Evening
Razzmatazz in the West
napkin love note

Lily Kaylor Honoré

Mathematics of Grief
Sound Translation

Niño Baena

Black and White Reels (II)

Mehmet Kaan Eğretli

When a Soldier Sighs

Aster Leonis

Respite

Pamela Wax

If You’re Lucky

Selden Cummings

Hyssop

Igor Kojadinović

The Divine Madness

Lawrence Bridges

Life of Hours

Skylar Hendler

Morning Sun
Dead Flowers

Aaron Nobes

Uncorked

Shanna Williams

yuba river

Raymond Berthelot

A Long Way from Home
Street Light
Sunset

Kyra Trumbull

These gilded streets
Cold-blooded

Amanda Dettmann

Dog Euthanasia
Twenty-Fifth Birthday

Annie Cook

Pilgrim
Dépaysement

Cheyenne Hicks

Audio Recordings

Anniversary

Alex Stanley

Ruin, Peñasco Blanco
Ruin, Sand Canyon

Caroline Laganas

Pears

Nick Maurer

Tender Embassy

D. E. Kern

Primrose Vale (for Michael J. Miller)

Felice Arenas

They Say

Thaddeus Rutkowski

A Moment

Marcia Hurlow

Canoeing on Lake Olathe,
September
In the Flint Hills

Elizabeth Schmermund

Five Fingered Breathing

Linds Sanders

Rattle

Aritrika Chowdhury

River of Dawn
4 AM

Alejandra Hernández

Blue Dream

Candice Phelan

Genesis of Rain
Here we cope with words

Sheree La Puma

The Lord Is Near To
The Brokenhearted

Alicia Shupe

Part of Me

Hrishikesh Srinivas

Swallowed

Jerrice J. Baptiste

November Light

Om Prakash Jha

Old-broken-drums

Christine Neuman

Decomposable

Eileen Sepulveda

New York City Windows

Heidi Seaborn

Hear Hear the Devil is Near

Kathryn Lauret

Home
Pink Clouds

Hrishikesh Goswami

The White Crease

Lizzy Sparks

decompose with me

Sophie Hoss

View from the Bridge After Snow

Skylar Brown

Venice Beaches

Daisy Bassen

Plimoth, during the next
wave of plague

M. Cole

An Ode to Poe: My Soul’s Narration

Peter Urkowitz

Ten Miles Up the Trail

Tiara Dinevska-McGuire

Kutlesh

Chandra Rice

My Favorite Sin
Therapy
Sister

Kevin Brennan

Childhood Home
I am that unhappy being

Serena Jacob

Strawberry River

Anna Wright

Cigarette Pantoum

Shane Ingan

Getting serious

Ruth Towne

Torricelli Apparatus
Leap

James Kelly Quigley

Hot Cross Buns

Caroline Kesterman

From the Space Between Songs
Margins

Christian Cacibauda

Staircase Wit

Robin Gow

Leaves of Three