Spring 2007

     Cover Art: Patrick Trimbath
      Front: The Venus Divine, 48’’ x 48’’, Acrylic, oil, resin, 2006
      Back: Olympia, 60’’ x 60’’, Acrylic, resin, 2007
 

POETRY

Anne Marie Macari – from Their Eyes Were Opened (Of All the Species)
(The Cord Between Us)
American Tree Sparrow, Platte River, Nebraska 

Jamey Dunham – The Good Life
Trickster in the City 

John Randolph Carter – I Wish to Travel to Another Planet
What Choo Got?

Frances Schenkkan – Mr. Stevens’ Secretary Transcribes a Poem
Clear 

Michael Robins – Merrymakers

Travis Brown – Necessary Room 

Orlando Ricardo Menes – Cenobites

Emily Perez – A Kiss on the Hand May Be Quite Continental

Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Love in the Orangery

Bill Lavender – The Riddle of 31 August 2005 

Michelle Margolis – Mid-Psalm, Evening, Seagrove Park
[From My Lover, Pascal]

Kurt S. Olsson – Autobiography of My Hand

Derek Mong – Fellini Sestina: Roma 

Mark Irwin – Augenblick

Frankie Drayus – Lust (against detachment)

Melanie Jordan – When I Talk Like Loose Sugar Waiting
Interstate Daydream

Kirum Kapur – Love Song #1
School 

Ellen Wehle – My Brother’s Keeper
Judgment

Lauren Claire Ireland – Evolution
Right Here at Once

Gail Wronsky – Shatter Me to Shards
Hippolyta, the Amazon

Angela Sorby – What Helen Caught 

Adam Vines – Georg Cantor, from Halle Sanatorium, 1884 

Theodore Worozbyt – Natural Philosophy
Lust

John Gallaher – Tonight’s the Night
The Bodies Have Fallen

William Winfield Wright – When the Revolution Is Over 

Eric Rawson – Visiting a Friend Who Isn’t Home 

Nicky Beer – Annual

Sarah Blackman – Napoleon of the Suburbs
The ______ Impossible

Sandra Meek – Still Life, with Fluency

Eliot Khalil Wilson – Cantrip for the Unmoored
The Grey Whales and the Weatherman’s Daughter

FICTION 

Andy Mozina – The Housekeeper’s Confession 

Emily Sinclair – A Story, with All Its Proper Elements 

Jacob M. Appel – The Anatomy Lab 

J.D. Chapman – Willie & Bette

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Melissa Delbridge – Girls Turned In

DRAMA

Daniel Gutstein – Marion Barry Fantasy Weekend

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Skin
Kellie Wells
Reviewed by Rachel Swearingen 

Gloryland
Anne Marie Macari
Reviewed by Margaret von Steinen

One Tribe
M. Evelina Galang
Reviewed by Melinda Moustakis 

Mosquito: Poems
Alex Lemon
Reviewed by Michael Levan

   Editor: Peter Geye
   Managing Editor: Ann Przyzycki
   Fiction Editors: Kelly Daniels, Rachel Swearingen
   Poetry Editors: Elizabeth Knapp, Kimberly Kolbe
   Drama Editor: Kevin Drzakowski