Spring 2009

P o e t r y

Brandon Shimoda -- Little Grace

Shana Youngdahl -- Help Manual from Great Grandmother’s Bookshelf

Adam Day -- Smoke

Donald Platt -- What Form Shall the Soul Take?
Lord Now

Patrick Culliton -- Winter Heritage

Michelle Gil-Montero -- Charcoal

Eric Kocher -- Séance for the Living
The Poem Where You End

Collier Nogues -- Bad September

Larissa Szporluk -- Tadpole
Water Bears

F. Daniel Rzicznek -- Greenbottle Tortures a Thief
Pugilistic Attitudes

Tyler Caroline Mills -- Performance

Zachary Schomburg -- 4 Poems from The Pond

Kazim Ali -- december hour

Jennifer Perrine -- This Animal Self

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen -- Complete with Blue Flowers

Christopher DeWeese -- Folksong
Poem for the Buzzard

Rebekah Silverman -- Why But Not Why
Why But Not Who

Mary Biddinger -- Saint Monica Composes a Five-Paragraph
Essay on Girad’s Theory of Triangular Desire

Susan Rich -- Hunger is the Best Cook

Candace Black -- Fitzroy Road

Lisa Gluskin -- Married Sex

Michael Homolka -- Upstate with My Father after the Divorce

Hannah Gamble -- The Birthday

Trey Moody -- The Listener, the Land

Scott Alexander Jones-- The Ambulance Driver Assures Us
Self-Infllicted Says Nothing of Intention

Matthew Gavin Frank -- The Morrow Plots

Margret Grebowicz -- Thousands of Études

Alex Lemon -- It Had Only Been Dead a Few Hours
California Hates You

F i c t i o n

Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Somewhere Warm

Brett Finlayson -- City-Love

Albert Waitt -- You Open Your Door

Justin Jainchill -- Fashionista

Mark Polanzak -- Gracie

Michael Hinken -- Stalin, Friend of the Sparrow

C r e a t i v e N o n f i c t i o n

Scott Wrobel -- How Not to Write a Personal Essay for Freshman Composition

Ira Sukrungruang -- For the Novice Bird Watcher

D r a m a

Michael Patrick Thornton -- The Princess and the Bear

R e c o m m e n d e d B o o k s

Kristina Marie Darling -- The Books of Sleep by Eleanor Stanford

Jennifer Malesich -- Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods by Paula Bohince

Valerie Pell -- The Most of It by Mary Ruefle

Laura Donnelly -- Shimming the Glass House by Helen Pruitt Wallace

Rachel Swearingen | Chris Carter -- The End by Chris Carter Salvatore Scibona

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