The Awakenings Project
In Loving Memory of Kurt Precourt Taecker by Robert Lundin, Editor
Preface, Robert Lundin, Editor
Table of Contents
Amy Barlow Liberatore
Get Over It • The Grey • The Tightrope
Baxter W. Napier, III
Anger and Guilt • Frozen Thoughts • I Wait • In Futility Fertility • Will the Circle be Unbroken
Carolee Sherwood
She who Burrows Beneath a Continent Knows the Devil • A Life, and a Poem, in Two Parts • The Children, Left to Themselves • Dark Blue • Step One: Pest Control
Christopher Gaskins
Prozac Days • Metamorphosis
Chuck Failing
Whose Delusion is it Anyway? • Outlining Vincent
Cindy Childress
Lines Composed while Watching a Squirrel from the New York Psychiatric Institute's Courtyard • Constant Observation • Sublimation and Transference: for Frank • Aquarium • Blowing It
Claudia Krizay
Read • Golden Tree • Torn Paper Thoughts • My Room in the Institution • Behind the Eyes of Madmen
Derrick L. Pittman
Nietzsche Never Had Tele-Vision • Vision of Heaven • I Sold my Christ • The Girl Who Watches Squirrels • January 1977 (For Toni)
Dixie J-Elder
Analysis: A Group Portrait, Hand Coloured • Growing Pains
Elizabeth Swados
The Head as the Globe • Poems for ... • Disappointed Storm Chaser • Under the Bush • Party
Gail Kernius
Depression Reeling Its Ugly Head • Luna • The Lonely Mind
Irene O'Garden
Filaments of Song • These Days • Trepanning • Mother Unframed • Clothes of Joy
James L. Freeman
Henry and Emily Dream a Mirtazipine Dream • The Panhandler and the Bowler • The Way I Was • Triangle
Jon Davis
You Cannot Win • OCD Pep Talk
Julia O'Donovan
Family Reunion • The Wind Sings • Life's Story • Butterflies and the Candle by Julia and Danny O'Donovan
Kristina Morgan
Broken Sky • At Ten They Dole Out Pills • Wildly Awake and Still • One Woman • Excerpt from The Color of Stone
Lindsay Morrison
Oh Shrink, My Shrink • Wiley, OH • Memorial Day • Resource • Autumn
Lindsay Nichole Torres
Losing Me
Marie A. Barnitz Kime
The Prayer Room • Keeping an Open Mind at the state psychiatric institution • Sun God • On "E" • Cops
Mark Murphy
Canticle of the Wind • In a Rage with Allen Ginsberg • Imitation of Catullus • Lonely Fighter • School of Dust
Matt Freeman
I'm Finally Here • I Was All That Was Left of the World • Legion • Split Prose on Diagnosis Difficulties • Some Words
Megan Michel
The Sonnet of My Demon Revisited Twice • My Demon • Oh Demon! • Let Me Pretend
Melissa Pettit
The Cobwebbed Mind • Her Day • Matt • ; Bipolar
Murray Alfredson
Air Fog and Wool-wad • Eirênikon to Irene • Hearthless
Peter Marcel Baroth
Thirst • End Beginning • White Coats • The Fallen Empire and the Halfway House • Upon Seeing Neil Stein at the Caribou Café
Philip Coffeen
Nakisik'walá
Phineas Dowling
State of Mind
Rachael Z. Ikins
My Shadow • My Sister • The Therapist • On the Lip • Mixed Media Nude Woman With Blue Acrylic Highlights
Samuel R. Himes
Where • Half-Right
Serena Spinello
Looped • Uninhabited • Ceremonious Defeat • Ode to Words
Tiff Holland
Single-Edge Safety • Acute Care • Three South
Virginia Erjavac
Pretty Girl
Wendy Brown-Baez
Dark Blessing
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