Published in January, the 2017 print issue examines the effects of noise and text delivered to the reader as visual volumes on multifaceted layers. Textures and patterns act as a sounding board, adding a variety of tones intended to create an atmospheric pairing with the poems themselves. The issue was composed of three differently sized, staple-bound parts, including a special feature of work by mentors and mentees in the Writer to Writer program hosted by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. This issue was distributed widely free of charge at the AWP Conference, including at the 50th anniversary gala dinner.
While the online issues pick up design elements of the print issue, they are designed not to replicate print nor to quietly frame content but, rather, to use the platform to create a distinct reading experience. Here in the new Archives, the issues are available via live link to the web-based PDF and as a downloadable PDF. In addition, each poet provides an audio version of a poem published in Tab Journal.
TASTING THE WORLD and IN SEARCH OF HOME
Afua Ansong | BOOK REC: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
KA. QUA. CRAFT: A COLLABORATIVE Q & Q
Traci Brimhall | BOOK REC: Four-Legged Girl byDianne Seuss
Catherine Keefe | BOOK REC: One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp
DANGEROUS ANIMALS
Ann V. Devilbiss | BOOK REC: Fragment of the Head of a Queen by Cate Marvin
SELF-PORTRAIT AS GENRE NOVEL and LUCKY GIRLS
Jeanine Hall Gailey | BOOK REC: The Cardiologist’s Daughter by Natasha K. Moni
TO MRS. CARLSON, FROM HER GRANDDAUGHTERS
Mari Hailu | BOOK REC: Seam by Tarfia Faizullah
MAKING DO
Barbara Helfgott Hyett | BOOK REC: Messenger by Ellen Bryant Voigt
COMPLIANCE
Allison Joseph | BOOK REC: Talking to My Body by Anna Swir (translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan)
WHIRLING ABOUT A PIVOT and THE ECSTATIC LEVITATION OF ST. GEMMA
Nancy Kuhl | BOOK REC: Delinquent Palaces by Danielle Chapman
STILL LIFE WITH SKULLS and another poem
dawn losinger | BOOK REC: The Wilderness by Sandra Lim
A NEW TUNE and POLYGLOT
Shikha Malaviya | BOOK REC: Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
A GLUT AGAINST THE DARKNESS
Jennifer McGuiggan | BOOK REC:Tristimania by Mary Ruefle
WEALTH DOESN’T ATTRACT ME and FLIGHT FROM IMAGE IS FLIGHT FROM DEATH
Tyler Mills | BOOK REC: Madwoman by Shara McCallum
A LIST FOR MENTORS
Emilia Phillips | BOOK REC: The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out by Karen Solie
IT GROWS: A MOTTO and MIMBRES
Erin Elkins Radcliffe | BOOK REC: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
WHEN GOD IS THE GROOM
Manisha Sharma | BOOK REC: Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls by Erika Meitner
SHE STANDS and THE TONGUE
Cecilia Woloch | BOOK REC: Collected Poems 1912- 1944 by H.D.
The content of our print issues is not available online in its entirety; this issue is still available and can be requested using the Contact form.
HEALING
Lauren Camp
EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE and LANGUAGE
Richard Carr
WHAT SHE DID
James B. Nicola
WINTER, BREAK
Sheila Squillante
KEEPING ON
Anastasia Stelse
K-1st grade
CONSUME
Robert Becerra
OCEAN WATER
Nash Williams
2nd-3rd grade
WAVES
Emma Lucchesi
ALCATRAZ
Japleen Dhillon
A DAY AT THE BEACH
Alexis Lavely
4th-6th grade
HAD THE OCEAN BEEN MY FRIEND
Siena Dunn
WONDERING WAVES
Abigail Alford
I AM A FISH IN THE BIG BLUE SEA
Fitzpatrick Brockway
7th-9th grade
LAST SUMMER
Will Tolmie
OPUS
Sarah Feng
TWILIGHT BEACH
Victor Li
10th-12th grade
BETWEEN
Elizabeth Nail
STORY MADE FROM OCEAN
Joyce Ker
TIDE POOL LOVE
Kate Lin
GUISES and RETRIBUTION
Ava C. Cipri
PROPOSITION and WAYS TO HIDE POETRY
Alicia Cole
ROSETTA
Nicholas Grenier, translated by Hélène Cardona
DAWN (GRY) and SELF-PORTRAIT (SELVPORTRÆT)
Cecil Bødker, translated by Michael Goldman
ATTEMPT and FALL IS MILD AND WARMING
Daniela Mihaleva, translated by Katerina Stoykova
BOOK REVIEW: Only More So by Millicent Borges Accardi
Mike Gravagno
Special Feature: Knox College Poetry Awards
LOOK
Diandra Soemardi
WAIT, WAIT
Erika Riley
414-415
Stephan Torralba
MOON POEM
Sam Geiger
DEAREST
Bridget McCarthy
HIKING TUMAMOC HILL AT NIGHT
Josh Tvrdy
BOOK REVIEW: Wild Domestic by Natasha Rosenfeld
Alison Williams
NON-CUSTODIAL and THE WOMEN LIE ALWAYS IN REPOSE
Andrea L. Hackbarth
A LIGHT AS FORGOTTEN (TO US)
Genevieve Kaplan
I’VE DECIDED NOT TO DATE A MUSLIM
Laila Shikaki
OASIS and BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIVILIZATION
Joshua Jennings Wood
AT HAND and MAGIC STRINGS
Stephen Campiglio
SOMETIMES
Harriet Castrataro
WHY I LIED WHEN MY SISTER ASKED ME WHAT WAS WRONG
Lisa Eve Cheby
WHEN THAT NORWEGIAN COUGHS BIRDS TIRED OF FLYING
Nicholas Christian
RECIPE, GYUMRI’S LAST TUFF STONEMASON and HER TREE
Alex Vartan Gubbins
COVER OF DARKNESS, COVER OF LIGHT and SOME PEOPLE ARE CITIES
Susan Johnson
AUBADE WITH TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING
Lynn Pederson