Contents: 2007 Winter/Spring Issue

Volume 28.1

Nonfiction

Shayla Hawkins
    "To Transcribe and Transfigure: An Interview with Charles Johnson"

Rachel Pridgeon
    "On Calluses"

Writers On Writing

John McNally
   "The Secret Life of Subtext"

Rebecca Johns
   "Let Me Introduce Myself"  
Poetry

Carrie Jerrell
   "The Poet Prays to Her Radio for a Country Song"
   "The Recessional"
   "Phaelthon"                        "Demolition Derby"              "For the Sparrows Who Lost Their Nests in the Southern Indiana Tornado"

Mathew Siegel
   "Maria Tells Me I Look Skinny"
   "Back To This"

Alison Stine
   "The Thief"
   "The Chairs"
   "The Red Thread"
   "The Flies"

Shana Deets
   "Hometown"                         "Human"

Devon Branca                        "Poseidon"

Chad Davidson                      "The Big Spill"                    "Subway"

Matt Rasmussen                    "Reverse Suicide"              "The I"

Cynie Cory                            "Robbery"                          "Do You Want to Take My Picture?"

Eric Burger                            "Scales"                            "The Gulls"

Gretchen Mattox                    "How Text Breaks Down"      "Moored to the Achetypal Father Dark"                          "A Forest Bleakly Mute"      "Formerly Bitten by Kittens"                                "The Backward Flight of Names"

Sandra Beasley                       "Allergy Girl III"                   "Allergy Girl IV"                   "Allergy Girl IX"

David Dodd Lee                      "Erotic Double"                  "Tricycle"

D.H. Tracy                            "For Hart Crane"                "Safiya's Recife Diary"

Weston Cutter
   "She Left Just Her Shoes and"                                      "Wood"

Sarah Green
   "Indirect Sunlight"
   "October Recovery"

Josiah Bancroft
   "The Whale in Her Lap"
   "Stand Off, Shoot Out"

Megan Grumbling
   "To The Reel"
   "Lacunae"

Tom Daley
   "August, the Deaconess, Third Floor"
   "Mary's Song"

Megan E. Shevanock
   "Loch Ness"
   "Encounter with a Fox"

Jim Murphy
   "Bellwether Radio"

Mike Dockins

   from "Seventeen Jills"

Ralph Black

   "Poems Blown About by the Wind"
   "Intermezzo"

Mary Gilliland
   "Holy Island"
   "Apples"

Matthew Ladd
   "Early Memory of  my Mother, Amarillo"
   "The Accidental Theatre"

Josh Rathkamp
   "Spectators Along the Interstate"
   "Stopping for Directions"

 







Poetry (Cont.)

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
   "For Six Seconds"

Allegra Wong
   "Boylston Street"

Kate Covintree
   "Study Hall"

Gerry LaFemina
   "Figure 9: Animal Suits Worn by Individual Performers"
   "The Baptism of the Clown Baby"

Matthew Guenette
   "Sudden Anthem"
   "Capitol Steps"

Willard Greenwood
   "Insomniac"

Donald Illich
   "The Loser"

Tom Dvorske
   "The Hitchhiker's Tongue"

Rodney Torreson
   "At the Elvis Hotel"
   "Hitchhiker"
   "You're 18, Riding with Friends to a Record Store in Dylan's Old Haunt of Dinkytown"

Fiction

Tracy Winn
   "Izabel Tiago" (Winner, 2006 Waasmode Short Fiction Prize)

Thomas L. Small
   "The Librarian's Assistant" (Finalist, 2006 Waasmode Short Fiction Prize)

Midge Raymond
   "Floaters" (Finalist, 2006 Waasmode Short Fiction Prize)

John McNally
   "Return Policy"

Steve Almond
   "Tiger Song"
   "It's Not Even Breakfast Anymore"

Aimee La Brie
   "In Mem"

Gail R. Henningsen
   "She Who Is Washing My Ex-husband's Clothes"

Caitlin Horrocks
   "Zero Conditional"

Allen Learst
   "When Water Breaks from the Shore"

Elizabeth Edelglass
   "The Same Map"

Andrew Bode-Lang
   "Love, Love, Love

Susan Woodring
   "Springtime on Mars"

Daniel Gocella
   "Do Flags"

Leonard Kress
   "The Burning Bus Club"

Robert Glick
   "Release"

Teresa Milbrodt
   "Lavendar Snails"

Eric Vrooman
   "Acknowledgments"

Lois Taylor
   "Nogo" (Winner, 2006 Just Desserts Short-Short Fiction Prize)

Steve Edwards
   "What's It Matter If I See Blurry?" (Finalist, 2006 Just Desserts Short-Short Fiction Prize)

Frankie Drayus
   "The Legend of the Girl Who Was Allergic to Salt" (Finalist, 2006 Just Desserts Short-Short Fiction Prize)