Spring 2008

Cover Art: Deborah Bell
Front: Super Mega Mini, 2007, 34'' x 36''
Back: Wee Essence, 2007, 24'' x 36''

POETRY

Maurice Manning -- A Penitential Psalm

Emma Ramey -- Servant

Stuart Greenhouse -- End of August

Khaled Mattawa -- Against Ether

Megan Snyder-Camp -- Contingency Museum

Brian Swann -- Accident | Imperative

Eva Hooker -- Angle of Repose

Joshua Dolezal -- June Dream

Virginia Heatter -- Biding, Paris de Gaulle

Erinn Batykefer -- The Experiment

Cheryl Lachowski -- The Laws of Eco-Poetics Dynamics

Nicole Walker -- This Neck of the Woods

Matthew Hotham -- The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate

Dawn Tefft -- All Warnings, All Invitations

Lesa Alison-Hastings -- Exorcism in Five Acts

Robb St. Lawrence -- Because I Don’t Mean This to Be Allegory

Christopher Bakken -- Kouros

Kent Shaw -- Serendipity, or How I would insinuate an explosion

Susan Goslee -- England

Dave Madden -- Another Poem about Flowers

Ander Monson -- Sermon for the Day
After the Last Missed Apocalypse Prediction

Mike Puican -- St. Prisca

Michael Heffernan -- The Scent of Rose Water |
Under Ben Bulben | Every Journey Has an End

Matthew Henriksen -- In the Meadow at the Parting of the Ways

FICTION

Halina Duraj -- Tenants

Eugene Cross -- Only the Strong

Chris D. Harvey -- Rituals

Casey Lefante -- Plastic Parts

Urban Waite -- Fault

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Heather Kirn -- Joining the Club

DRAMA

Chris Gavaler -- The Chris and Alex Show

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