Cover Art: Caleb Larsen
Front: Icarus, please be careful, 2002,
Painting, 89’’x 110’’, enamel on tarpaulin
Top Back: Aeronautics: the art and science of flight, 2002, Painting, 89’’x 101’’, tar and oil on
tarpaulin with C-print
Bottom Back: Might and Trepidation,
2002, Painting, 68’’x 97’’, enamel on tarpaulin
POETRY
Christina Pugh—Lesson | Church Street
Neil Shepard—Sick Day | Bridge Freezes Before Road
Mark Neely—Brass Doorknobs
Catherine Staples—What I Remember
Billy Collins—Love
David Roderick—The Dig
Ryan G. Van Cleave—The End of Karate Movies
David Moolten—Boy in a Tree, Terra Bella, California
Andrew Hudgins—The Thumping of the Bed | I Think of Being in the Grave
Martin Ott—Flowers and Bones
Rodney Jones—Small Lower Middle Class White Southern Male | Wood
Christopher Buckley—All this Time
Jay Meek—Transparencies | Iceberg, From Signal Hill
Simon Perchik-- * | * | *
Ariana- Sophia M. Kartsonis—Blues Turned to Bruise | Wishing Bone Spell to End
Emptiness at Twilight or the Bed’s Expanse or Rage at a Cloud Shaped Like the
Trunk of a Muscular Man
Andrew Zawacki—from Viatica
Jeff Mock—Minor Rebellion
Kurt S. Olsson—The Death of Orpheus
James Hoch—Symbolein
Elly Clay—All the Time in the World
Paul DuBois Jacobs—The Hunting of Man | Fiddleheads
FICTION
Ira Sukrungruang—Wang Town
Virginia Smiley—Circus Mom
Stefani Jaye Farris—Growing Up Girl
Dale Hrebik—The Model
Debbie Kennedy—Grave Skipping
Managing Editors: Shanda Hansma Blue and Glenn Deutsch
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Libbie Searcy and Adam Schuitema
Poetry Editors: Kirsten Hemmy and Billy Reynolds
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Dan Mancilla