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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