Journal Intro

    Immature Plum Lobelia
    Teleki Valley, Mt. Kenya
    © 2000 Susan Mello

Welcome to the Summer Issue 2000 of the KotaPress Poetry Journal. Check it out!

Letter From the Editor
A little of this A little of that

Guest Article
With Jerrilynne Jankowski

KP Review
Diamonds n' Sausage You won't find luxury and down-home-cookin' like this anywhere else!

Poet Chat
Our Summer Issue Q & A is with poet
Claudia Mauro of Whit Press.

This issue is dedicated to Terry Gover Wideman, Jerry Melvin Wideman,
Devon Cornell-Drury, and as always Dakota Jones.

Table of Contents Title

1. Written 30 Years After by Anne Wideman	17. Invocation on Hudson Street by Claudia Mauro
2. Daughter of a Moment by Diane Cornell-Drury	18. Cry Not by Louis Brletich
3. Mother by Carla T. Griswold	19. The Elephant Orphanage photo by Todd Schneider
4. Cicada... photo by Todd Schneider	20. Dear Editor: by Janet Mae Best
5. Allergics' Prayer by Eryn Huntington	21. Sing by Alysson B. Parker
6. The Smooth, Round, Shiny... by Nancy Talley	22. Moments by Michael Francis Leary
7. How It Happened by Alyssa A. Lappen	23. On Ex-girlfriends by Chris Ryan Bordeaux
8. Coyote Bill and the Special Party by Russ Mead	24. Vigil by Claudia Mauro
9. In the Field of My Heart by Barney F. McClelland	25. Third Wife by Esther Altshul Helfgott
10. Anorexia by Jess Mills	26. Desire for Memory by Allegra Wong
11. From The Inside by Katie McAllaster Weaver	27. In the dark by Rebecca Page
12. Kenya Photo Essay photos and essay by Susan Mello	28. Quissing Naket Muses by Jose Jason L. Chancoco
13. Vignette by David L. Sutton	29. Dead Today by Kara L.C. Jones
14. The Difference Betw Me and Her by Claudia Mauro	30. My Mom's With Me by MaryLee Smith
15. Summers' Solstice, Upstate NY by Richard Messer	31. In My Body of Skin by Ruth Daigon
16. Yo-Yo by Ken Shiovitz	32. At the Delphi Café by Charles Fishman