Spring 2007
Volume 4 Issue 2


POETRY

 

Kim Addonizio

 

The Kiss
Poem for the New Year

 

Adam Chiles

Trench
No Mans Land

 

John Grey

Drunk Duty

 

Paul Guest

Seduction With Entropy
The Lives of the Optimists
One More Theory About Happiness

 

Maryanne Hannan

On Not Visiting My Husband’s Grave on the 25th Anniversary of His Death Because I’m Touring the Rugged Coast of Croatia

 

Matt Hart

[Giant Anxious          Giant Love]
[Broken Up Over A Mailbox]

 

Bob Hicok

The age of sundry
Poem in need of a lintel
Breakfast
Embrace
Adjustments

 

Melanie Jordan

Seeing Henry Darger’s Watercolors for the First Time
Lyric with a Cubist Leaning

 

Philip Kobylarz

Prague Summer, 1940

 

Greg Koehler

Kuskokwim River Dirge
Delaware River Hymn

 

Judy Kronenfeld

Company is coming! Company is coming!

 

Laurie Clements Lambeth

Symptoms
Coming Down
After Eight Years

 

Christopher Lirette

Jolie Blonde

 

Clay Matthews

Reception

 

Nathan McClain

The Gospel According to MacGyver
The Gospel According to Oz

 

Karyna McGlynn

[the wedding party floated away on an iceberg]

 

Deirdre O’Connor

Sonnet to Your Mind: Fill in the Blank
Some Days So Far Off They May Be Today
Macedonian Fragment

 

Thomas Patterson

The Bright Fog of Karada

 

Adam Pellegrini

Constants

 

Chuck Rybak

Liketown

 

Metta Sáma

Please Extinguish Me
Nothing new under the heart
Fluid, fecund, forget me not

 

Brandon Shimoda

I Made a Mistake, A Mistake

 

Cody Todd

Heart-Throb

 

Betsy Wheeler

Tours Every Hour Upon The Hour
Non-Sonnet For Sleeping Birds
Non-Sonnet For The Artifact

 

Nancy White

The Owl in Your Name

 

Susan B.A. Somers-Willett

Cotyledon
The Order of a House

 

Ian Williams

Returning Home
Nuclear

 

Rodney Wittwer

New Year’s Eve

 

 

FICTION

 

Elizabeth Colen

 

Curtains

 

Nate House

Rules of Winter

 

Eric Shade

An Episode
In Ontario
An Illusion

 

Laura Madeline Wiseman

How to Be a Woman

 

 

NONFICTION

 

Alison Stine

 

One Hundred Consecutive Times
What I Need
Because You Ask

 

 

REVIEWS

 

Amanda Auchter

 

on Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
by Rigoberto González

 

Todd Dillard

on Mosquito
by Alex Lemon

 

Elizabeth McDonnell

on The Mending Worm
by Joan Houlihan

 

Sarah E. Smith

on the fever almanac
by Kristy Bowen

 

Rebecca Wadlinger

on Intaglio
by Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis