“Spring Morning” by Coleman Barks
from The Cortland Review, Issue 15
      Famed as English translator of Rumi, Coleman Barks was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS documentary Fooling With Words & reads a series of his own poems in the newest Cortland Review, his soft-edged Georgia voice playing a conversational rubato over the indented three-line stanzas on the screen.

• Ernie Cline, “Tech Support”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player”
• Sylvia Plath, “On the Decline of Oracles”
• Lizzie Wann, “Patricia Said”