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Spring 2004
Cover Art
Front: Robert Rauschenberg, Post Rally, 45.5’’x 31.25’’, 17/42, lithograph
Back: Richard Serra, 183rd & Webster Avenue, 32’’x 44.25’’, 60/62, lithograph
Poetry
Anna George Meek—Mirrors| Organic Matter
Connie Voisine—Prayer to New Mexico
Dennis Sampson—If You Were Here
Kirsten Ratza—The usher, at 21, examines the only wedding photo in which he appears
Paul Guest—Night Clerk| In Case of Rapture
Bill Knott—Paradise
Conrad Hilberry—Numbers
Timothy Geiger—Why I’m Not a Pyromaniac Anymore
Hadara Bar-Nadav—Shadows on All Sides| The Porch at Night
Richard Robbins—Circle Dancing at the Cowboy Hall of Fame
Deborah Landau—Orchidelirium| August in West Hollywood| Regrets
Myron Hardy—Salt| The Making
George Looney—The Moon Between the Branches| Curses and Blessings
Robyn D. Morgan—One Reason| The Preacher’s Wife| Bloom
Mark Halliday—The Current| Jurassic
Scott Silsbe—Unattended Fire
Sean Thomas Dougherty—At the Last Moment of Evening| Magritte’s Chair| Against Green| Invocation
Fiction
Ryan G. Van Cleave—Mouths
Sharon Moshavi—The Life of a Roman
Joseph Laizure—The Grasshopper Cross
Prim Callan—The Note
John McNally—Red’s
Keith Banner—From Me to You
S.L. Wisenberg—The Girl at the Window
Kristy Nielsen—A Measure of the Sin
Creative Nonfiction
Morgan Grayce Willow—Double Language
Interview
Jason Skipper—A Craft Talk with John Dufresne
Recommended Books
A Sad Affair
Wolfgang Koeppen, translated with an introduction by Michael Hoffmann
Reviewed by Diether H. Haenicke
The German Money
Lev Raphael
Reviewed by Peter Patau
The Book of Ralph
John McNally
Reviewed by Scott Kaukonen
The Dictionary of Failed Relationships: 26 Tales of Love Gone Wrong
Meredith Broussard, ed.
Reviewed by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Stories in the Worst Way
Gary Lutz
Reviewed by Andy Mozina
The Fifth Book of Peace
Maxine Hong Kingston
Reviewed by Monica Friedman
Blue Window
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Reviewed by J. Gabriel Scala
Orchid Literary Review
Maureen Aitken, Keith Hood, and Cathy Mellett, eds.
Reviewed by Adam Schuitema
Editor: Glenn Deutsch
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Andrea Bussell, Monica Friedman
Poetry Editors: Cody Todd, Amanda Warren
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Valerie Waldrop
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