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Fall 2005

Cover Art: The Tribunal Series by John Kollig
Front: The Composer, 12’’x 16’’, oil on canvas
Back (left to right): The one who drinks too much, 12’’x 16’’, oil on canvas
The Vicar, 12’’x 16’’, oil on canvas
My Nosferatu, 12’’x 16’’, oil on canvas


Poetry

Justin Vicari—Hockney Retrospective, M.O.M.A.

Julianna Baggott—Mary Cassatt, Going Blind, Crosses Her Room| A Boyfriend from Years Ago Appears at the Reunion—Without His Emotions| Ida Saxton McKinley, the First Lady, Seizes During a Dinner Party

Robyn Anspach—How Jacob pinned the angel by touching her thigh

Basil Cleveland—Churchgirls

Gail Martin—The Moon Isn’t Strong Enough

Stefi Weisburd—The Collector| Eulogy

Jesse Lee Kercheval—The Last Three Apples

Kate Fetherston—Blind Spot| Taking Measure

J. Allyn Rosser—Not Stopping| Right Moment, Wrong Soiree

Jake Adam York—Midnight, Furnace, Wind| George Wallace at the Crossroads| Descendant

David Bruzina—Self-Butcher and Cook| The Hunter Calls Rabbits

Kathryn Smith—Into the Hands of Robbers| Falling Apart

Robert Gregory—The Careful Days Are Here

Marvin Bell—Thoughts During the Demolition Derby, Sandusky County Fair, Fremont, Ohio| I Was Not Myself| Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet

Mary Ruefle—A Poet’s Dictionary| What Woman| Cassandra

Jackie White—Fable

Tim Seibles—Douglass, a Last Letter

George Looney—A Sad Man Makes of the Moon an Absolution

Jonathan Johnson—Original Sin and Cover Tunes| Brave Coast, No Wheels


Fiction

Melanie Westerberg—An Open Field

Stephen Graham Jones- Faberge

Amanda Boyden—Jack and Jill

Randy DeVita—Up

Jose Skinner—The Extra

Howard Norman—Sidestroke


Nonfiction

Mia Nussbaum—Of Possible Worlds I Slip Into and Breathe, O Drink, While Remaining in My One Life and Chair

Orman Day—More Than Bread

Christopher Merrill—Dismal Harmony


Drama

OyamO—Salome Muller the Slave


Interview

Peter Geye—An Interview with Howard Norman


Recommended Books

U & I: A True Story
Nicholson Baker
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
Eileen Warburton
Reviewed by Peter Patau

Numele Tau/ Your Name: Poeme/ Poems
Dona Rosu
Reviewed by Anna Redsand

Vacationland
Ander Monson
Reviewed by Billy Reynolds

Budget Travel through Space and Time
Albert Goldbarth
Reviewed by Amanda Rachelle Warren

Ordination
Scott A. Kaukonen
Reviewed by Vincent Reusch

Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels
All the Errors
Giorgio Manganelli
Reviewed by Ann Przyzycki


Editor: Glenn Deutsch
Managing Editor: Peter Geye
Poetry Editors: Jason Olsen, Roy Seeger
Fiction Editors: Peter Geye, Sean Mintus
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Anna Redsand
Drama Editor: Kevin Drzakowski
Assistant Managing Editor: Ann Przyzycki

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