Spring 2010

Cover Art: Jennifer Gardiner
Images courtesy of The Nines Gallery
Front: Nests, 20’’x 20’’, Mixed Media on Panel
Back: Homage to the Phoenix, 52’’x 52’’, Mixed Media on Panel


POETRY

Jennifer Perrine—Portrait of My Mother as Mule

Kate Angus—Michigan 1986

J.P. Dancing Bear—The Clown Opera

Craig Beaven—The First Passenger Airplane Crash

Logan Perkes—The Men

Laura Eve Engel—What the Winter Made of Me

Dennis Hinrichsen—Stomp Board

Megan Gannon—Casting

Jeff Stein—Clearance

Dan Rosenberg—The Husband Imposes His Persistence

Maggie Queeney—On the Liver and Lust | On the Female Liver

Joshua Robbins—Collateral

Monica Berlin—What a year looks like: drenched…

Bridget Lowe—First Key Moments in the Construction of the Master Narrative

Kathleen Flenniken—Horse Latitudes

Jennifer Case—Lorentzian Geometry

Ryan Teitman—Foreign Film at the Ritz at the Bourse

Marianne Boruch—She stood there unquiet: a road | To make a life inside

Jon Pineda—Ellipses

Yael Shinar—song


FICTION

Daniel Coshnear—Wormholes

Lacey Jane Henson—Les Enfants

Adam McOmber—There Are No Bodies Such As This

Christopher Lowe—Those Like Us

Sarah Morrison—Wise Guy

David Luoma—A Blues Lesson


CREATIVE NONFICTION

M. Eileen Cronin—In Annie’s Hands

Eric Dean Wilson—Polaroids from the Black Rock Desert, NV


DRAMA

Robert Montgomery—Electra

Austin Bunn—Basement Story


INTERVIEW

Daniel Morris—A Conversation with Mark Halliday


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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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