The Southern California Anthology, v. 16 (1999)

The Southern California Anthology (1999) volume 16. Published annually. CONTENTS: For Joan / Morris Broderson -- One Time Waiting; One Night in April; Dante's "Purgatory XVIII" / W.S. Merwin -- Only the Lonely; A Tale of Anticipation / Hubert Selby Jr. -- Epithalamium; Once More, With Feeling; A Note from When I Was Here to Anyone Here / Miller Williams -- The Lost Suitcase / Nicholas Delanco -- Tree of Heaven - Port Townsend; Arrival in Brazil / Marvin Bell -- And How Could I Live On (for Betty Shabazz) / Nikki Giovanni -- Facts and Their Manifestations / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Mary Said: / Fred Chappell -- Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Sonnet with Tail" / John Frederick Nims -- He Talks of Guns / Millicent Borges -- Haunted / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- The Street Light; Autobiography / Hugh Seidman -- On the Art of Faking It / David Ray -- Girl with Star of David Whistling / Linda Mastrangelo -- No One Goes to Paris in August / Clarence Major -- Dusks / Alba Ambert -- Mexico City, 1968, summer; Colors passing through us; Surrounded by an invisible sea; The streets of Detroit were lined with elms / Marge Piercy -- Reliquaries / Pat Wagner -- The Stone of the Year / Ivan Havel -- Yes; Yoga / Kathleen Spivack -- Pedestrian Song / Don Bogen -- On Kibbutz / Lisa Swanstrom -- The Colors We're Taking with Us; We'll Always Have Paris / Philip Appleman -- Throwing Rice / Greg Blake Miller -- Into Your Eye / Veno Taufer -- Into Your Eye / James Ragan -- So-So; The Canoes; Quand un Poete / Jean-Pierre Rosnay -- 7-10 / James McKinley -- D115 / Simon Perchick -- Love: A Pantomime / Robley Wilson -- Sinatra's Dogs / Kristin Johnson -- The Ann Stanford Poetry Prize: Vermeer's "A Woman Holding a Balance" (first prize) / Madeline DeFrees -- Amo, Amas, Amat (second prize) / Elton Glaser -- How He Warmed Himself (third prize) / Andrea Hollander Budy -- Finalists and Honorable Mentions.