Fall 2004

Cover Art
Front: Jeff Abshear, Bus Your Tray, 32’’x 36’’, oil on canvas
Back: Funnel Cakes, 32’’x 36’’, oil on canvas


Poetry

Claire Bateman—Initiate| The Free Zone

Dan Kaplan—Song

Terrance Hayes—It’s a Small World| Woofer (When I Consider the African-American)| Satchmo Returns to New Orleans

Mary Quade—The Attic

Maria Hugger—Crimson Ducts| Sestina for Kaspar Hauser

John Pursley III—Still Life with Blue Fissure

A.J. Rathbun—Letter to the Heart Attack

Mark Harrison—Living Room| Punk Rock Nightmare

Daniel Gutstein—“other geometries”

Sandra Meek—Astraphobia| Doctrine of Signatures| Millennium

Dave Lucas—from Life Cycle of a Star| II| V

Emily Kruse—The Psychological Implications of Sex

Erika Meitner- Red Tornado Warning:| Quisiera Declarar| Faith-Based Option

Wendy Bishop—Approaching Ennui| At the Arboretum| If This Were All Yours

James Arthur—Indication:| Avocado

Heather A. Slomski—St. Michael’s Oranges

Becka Mara McKay—In Praise of the Overlooked| After the Tombs (Tarquinia, 1997)

Marsha Janson—We Dedicate This Practice| Everyone Loves a Good Downpour

Carrie Oeding—The Women Wear Black| Work Harder

Deborah Nodler Rosen—On the Road to Da Nang

Kurt S. Olsson—The Death of Magellan


Fiction

Patrick Michael Finn—Smokestack Polka

Bob Hicok—The Mourner

Peter Vaudry-Brown—A Ken and Barbie Story

Rebecca Kanner—Argiope

David Cates—Salsa

Scott Kaukonen—Ordination


Creative Nonfiction

Gail Griffin—Rainbow

Michele Root-Bernstein—A Collection of Rocks; a Portrait

W. Scott Olsen—The Road in Winter


Interview

Jason Olsen—An Interview with Poet Major Jackson


Recommended Books

A Wake for the Living
Radmilla Lazic, translated by Charles Simic
Reviewed by Jason Olsen

Show and Tell, New and Selected Poems
Jim Daniels
Reviewed by Billy Reynolds

Abrupt Rural
David Dodd Lee
Reviewed by Jamie Thomas

The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
William Langewiesche
Reviewed by Peter Geye

In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland
Becky Bradway, ed.
Reviewed by Peter Patau


Editor: Glenn Deutsch
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Andrea Bussell, Monica Friedman
Poetry Editors: Cody Todd, Amanda Warren
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Valerie Waldrop
Managing Editor: Andrea Bussell

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