Not the best, not the Best, but good.


These poems in the new issue of POOL stood
out for me. For whatever reason.

Nina Lindsey/ Working Saturdays
Kiki Petrosino/ Valentine
Christopher Sindt/ Hymn to the God of Dailiness
Thom Ward/ Barter & Dolls
Scott Hightower/ In the Mix
James Haug/ [place unknown]
Mark Halliday/ Best Am Po
Leonard Gontarek/ Twenty Lines for J
Joshua Beckman/ Untitled [A frieze etc]
Tony Hoagland/ Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Carrie St. George Comer/ Miami in April