COVER ART
“Bali Boys: Mischievous” (6’4” x 4’6″) | “Passive” (32″ x 24″) | “Excited” (32″ x 24″)
oil on canvas, and oil on rice paper by Don Adleta
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CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Maggie Smith “Last Night on Earth” “I Think of You, Eréndira”
Mark Kraushaar “Prognostic”
Jonathan Weinert “Cytoplasm, Garden Party, Leonid Shower”
Terry Wolverton “Outage”
Laura Koritz “Leviathan”
Todd Davis “Obituary”
Amisha Patel “After Plato”
Linda Bamber “From the Harbor Café”
Valerie Bandura “Freak Show” “On the Other Hand”
Joanie Mackowski “One Afternoon” “Song”
Mark Conway “That Was When You Lived” “Still Life of Dreaming Man with Autopsy”
Brian Leary “My Penis Is My Sphinx Befuddled by Answers” “My Heart Is a Lake Loud with Drowning”
Mary Ann Samyn “In the Countryside of The“
Rynn Williams “Sad Balloon” “No Vacancy”
CJ Evans “Necrophagia and the Leopard” “A Splinter of Glass and the Heavy Boots of Tyrants”
Peter Cooley “April 24, 2005”
Steve Mueske “Blue Poem”
Mike White “Crow” “In a Station of The Tube” “Vocation”
Anthony Butts “Lightning Dance”
Arisa White “Loving Him Is Like Trying to Solve a Riddle Whose Answer Is Yes and No. No or Yes. You Will Always Be Right and Wrong”
Jennifer Tonge “The Distance Between Ant Two Points is Infinite”
Lauren Haldeman “Indigenous Ferns Around the Distillery”
John Rybicki “This Tape Measure Made of Light” “Silhouette”
Eric Leigh “Two Dreams About My Father”
Nance Van Winckel “Act Normal” “The Endless Spiel of the D Street Twins”
Ned Foskey “God’s Jacket”
Seth Abramson “Clamor for Gods of Myth” “How I Should Have Died”
Peter Nickowitz “Screenpoem”
Jean Valentine “It was women” “The Leopard”
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FICTION
Kate Lane “Red Winter”
Caitlin Horrocks “This Is Not Your City”
Jessica Roeder “Currency and the Ocean”
Charles McLeod “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town”
Eric Gansworth “Night in the Ruts”
Porter Fox “Caribou”
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DRAMA
Steven Schutzman “driver’s side air bag”
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ESSAY
Greta Bolger “Homing Instinct”
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REVIEW
Cindy St. John Linda Hull: Collected Poems by Lynda Hull
Jason Olsen Echolalia by Deborah Bernhardt
Elizabeth Marzoni The Miniature Room by Rebecca Dunham
Michael Monje clown girl by Monica Drake
Jennifer Malesich Things Are Disappearing Here by Kate Northup
Jody Keisner The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Richard Katrovas Separate Lives, Poems by Glover Davis