Fall 2010

Cover Art: Stephen Magsig

Front: A House near the Railroad Track, 5”x7,” oil on linen/panel

Back: Queen Anne’s Lace, 7”x5,” oil on linen/panel

POETRY

Jake Adam York—Before Knowing Remembers ׀ The Second Person

David Dodd Lee—Fish Lake

Shannon Jonas—Poison Cloud Approaches Town

Lisa Lewis—A History Lesson ׀ Red Water Spreading

Eric Weinstein—Copula

Louise Mathias—Orion

Kristin LaCroix—Bound for the New Albion Hotel

David Wagoner—Body and Soul ׀ At the Edge of the Bed

Austin Hummell—Frost at Midnight

Brian Trimboli—Genesis Triptych

Teresa Scollon—Drought Year

Patty Seyburn—Morpho Peleides

Nick Regiacorte—In Statu Nascendi

Weston Cutter—All Yes vs. Death of Binary

Miles Waggener—Infertility

Keith Ratzlaff—Angels in Crisis ׀ Angel from a Star

FICTION

John Matthew Fox—Fatu Ma Futi

Elizabeth Bull—Other Considerable Forms of Communication

Amy Purcell—You Are Not So Lucky

John Zackel—Pre-Existing Conditions in Puyallup, Washington

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Aubrey Hirsch—A Florist’s Encyclopedia

Kate Schmitt—Weight of Desire

Kelcey Ervick Parker—Students Die, and What Is Poetry?

DRAMA

Jennifer Fawcett—The Echo

INTERVIEW

A Conversation with Alicia Ostriker

SYMPOSIUM ON WRITING AND THE MIDWEST

Marianne Boruch—Doubt, Shrug, Shadow

Erin McGraw—Horses

David Baker—Native Colors

Joe Meno—Keechie

Mark Halliday—Kenneth Koch of Cincinnati

Nancy Eimers—Not Much Will Have Happened

Monica Berlin—Your Slow Pulse

Stuart Dybek—To Live in the Midwest

Lee Martin—Gravel Roads

Bonnie Jo Campbell—Annie Oakley Starts Killing at Age Thirteen

Patricia Henley—What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Writing the Midwest

Lisa Bouma Garvelink—Willa Cather’s Midwest

Eula Biss—Short Talks on the Midwest

Cody Lumpkin—On William Stafford’s “Prairie Town”

William Olsen—My Middle Name

Michael Levan—The Midwest, a Found Text

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

Tom Springer

Reviewed by Ilse Schweitzer

 

Never-Ending Birds

David Baker

Reviewed by Gary L. McDowell

 

The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo

Darrin Doyle

Reviewed by Jessica Vozel

 

The Sky’s Weight

Rane Arroyo

Reviewed by Ben Westlie

 

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir

Ander Monson

Reviewed by James Miranda

Editor: Laura Donnelly
Managing Editors: Eileen Wiedbrauk, Laura Zawistowski
Drama Editor: Karen Wurl
Fiction Editors: Robert Kirkbride, Emily J. Stinson
Nonfiction Editor: Kate Dernocoeur
Poetry Editors: Natalie Giarratano, Elizabeth Marzoni

 

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