Fall Winter 2006
Volume 4 Issue 1


POETRY

 

Nick Admussen

 

Open
I Had Come to the Four-Doored Room

Jeffrey C. Alfier

Drought in the Hinterland

Maureen Alsop

Leda’s Flashback

J.P. Dancing Bear

All That Remains

Agatha Beins

Dissection

Victoria Boynton

You Ask about Your Dead Dad’s City

Shanna Compton

Terminal
One Millionth Love Poem

Andy Cox

Side Effects May Include
Villanelle: Fortune Cookies

Jake Willard-Crist

Collect

Melanie Dusseau

Rustbelt Grammar

Suzanne Frischkom

Light

Jeannine Hall Gailey

The Fox-Wife Dreams
What Makes Her Unique

Taylor Graham

Athena Answers
Peeling the Onion

Anne Haines

After the Crash
The Last Storm

Christine Hamm

The Grass Eater

Jenny Hanning

Understand

M.J. Iuppa

The Log Stranded on the Beach Became Our Bench

Jennifer Jerome

Second Miscarriage

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Giving it Up for Redeemers at the Shop-a-Rama

Robert Krut

Lava Sphere, Sky Sphere

Mary Larkin

The Perfect Moment

Lyn Lifshin

Late November

Greg McBride

Tinnitis: A Solitary Theme Song

Ron Mohring

Turning It Over
Party Favor

Natasha Kochicheril Moni

Harlot

Keith Montesano

Watching Youngstown

Benjamin Morris

Bookmarked

Muriel Nelson

Open Other End

Tom Nurmi

Williams Town

David O’Connell

The Origin of Speech

Matthew Olzmann

Louisville Slugger

John Pursley III

An Original Sound
Asphalt

Joseph Radke

Cast Away

Doug Ramspeck

The Marriage

Nicholas Reading

Scoring the Silent Film

Liz Robbins

Postcard Never Sent To The Black-Haired Pilot Of My Former Universe

Dennis Saleh

Avocado

Steven D. Schroeder

Poem to End a Friendship

Matthew Siegel

For My Upstairs Neighbor
Getting Used to Being Alive

Judith Skillman

Dead-Heading the Flowers

Magdalena Sokolowski

[It’s true, they wove rugs]

Brent Terry

American Redstart

David Trame

Sunburn

Letitia Trent

Scare
Yellow

Gabriel Welsch

The First Seed Catalog Arrives in the Mail
Fragile
Aubade With Workers

Jordan Windholz

Pathetic
The Pursuit of Sweetness and Light

Wendy Wisner

For Dahlia
Butter

Kim Young

Sibyl
Abduction

Fredrick Zydek

My Father Carves a Wooden Flute

 

FICTION

 

L.L. Babb

 

Left Wanting

Beth Simon

Defuniak Springs

Richie Smith

An Unethical Publication Of A Doctor-Patient Correspondence

 

NONFICTION

 

Donora Hillard

 

from Bone Cages

 

REVIEWS

 

Amanda Auchter

 

on Stubborn
by Jean Gallagher

Todd Dillard

on A Mnemonic for Desire
by Steve Mueske

Elizabeth McDonnell

on All This Could Be Yours
by Laurie Blauner

Sarah E. Smith

on The Pajamaist
by Matthew Zapruder

Rebecca Wadlinger

on Talk Shows
by Mónica de la Torre

Ryan Young

on Uncontainable Noise
by Steve Davenport