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Spring 2006
Cover Art: Alexandrea Lau
Front: Passage Through the Havens of Itik, 20’’x 24’’, woodcut
Back: Fish Story, 12’’x 16’’, woodcut
Poetry
Andrew Kozma—Heteroglossia
James Allen Hall—Pleasure| The End of Myth
Marcela Sulak—Unsettled Land Between| Not a Ghazal #3
Thomas Lux—The Ambulatory Paranoid| Nolens Volens (Whether Willing or Unwilling| Autobiographobia
Rob Cook—Letter to Myself at Four, 1973| The Sniper’s Apartment
Erin Elizabeth Smith—Macha Speaks of Her Children| Sin (Storm): A Pantoum
Kristin Bock—Imagination| The Somniloquy of the Sleeping Asp
Julie Sophia Paegle—The Prejudiced Goat
Michael Gushue—How the Mockingbird Got His Mock| The Bandwidth Presidents
Judith Kerman—Persephone
Linda Cooper—What Takes the Place of Health| Refuge
Matt Miller—Hierarchy of Paradise
Mike Dockins—Letter to Johnston from Carlisle
Tara Bray—Washoe Lake Refuge| Carolina Chickadees
Susan Hutton—Against Our Nature| Wujakari, Yartijumurra, Arawunga, Tokwampari| First Glance
Bill Rasmovicz—The Accordian
Celia Stuart-Powles—The Gift
Mark Vinz—Work, for the Night Is Coming| The Tribe
Kathryn Schwartz—August 1983: Saginaw Street, Flint
Mark Jarman—We Are All Praying for Our Father| The Comet
Lisa Sewell—Ghazal for the First Day of Spring
Fiction
Roger Hart—Fireflies
Jason Grunebaum—What We Know
Christine Caya—Night Vision
Jean Hanson—The Caribe Club
M. Lynx Qualey—Hysterical| Without Fingernails
Edward O’Connell—Part-timers
Creative Nonfiction
Chad Hanson—Working Class Glass
Drama
Ted LoRusso—Woman With Coffee
S.W. Senek—12 Rounds
A Symposium of Slovenian Poetry and Prose in Translation
Erica Johnson Debeljak—A Deeper Geography
Uros Zupan—May| December Sketches| The Village of Migojnice
Tomaz Salamun—the lime in the desert| The Face
Barbara Korun—I Saw a Man| The Touch
Drago Jancar—A Sunday in Oberheim
Ales Debeljak—Columbus| Christmas in America| A Bath Before Bed
Recommended Books
Star Dust
Frank Bidart
Reviewed by Elizabeth
The Nina Zero Novels of Robert Eversz
Robert Eversz
Reviewed by Michael Coash
When It Burned to the Ground
Yolanda Barnes
Reviewed by Erin Huskey
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City. A Diary.
Anonymous
Reviewed by Larry ten Harmsel
Authenticity
Dierdre Madden
Reviewed by Laura Jean Baker
Mother of Sorrows
Richard McCann
Reviewed by Jon Adams
Birdsong: A Natural History
Don Stap
Reviewed by Anna Redsand
Editor: Peter Geye
Managing Editor: Ann Przyzycki
Guest Editor: Erica Johnson Debeljak
Poetry Editors: Melanie Crow, Jason Olsen
Fiction Editors: Kelly Daniels, Vincent Reusch
Drama Editor: Kevin Drzakowski
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