Table of Contents - Issue 1
Hugh Jones ..............................................................................................1
Everything at the Fair Comes on a Stick (sculpture)
John von Bergen .....................................................................................2
Uwatenage (sculpture)
Errol Willett .............................................................................................3
Banff #1 (sculpture)
Tom Huff .................................................................................................4
Stone Canoe (carving)
Robin Wall Kimmerer ............................................................................5
The Sacred and the Superfund (essay)
Sarah C. Harwell ...................................................................................18
Deer in the Headlights (poem)
Michael Jennings ...................................................................................19
A Song (poem)
Thom Ward ............................................................................................20
After the Expulsion (poem)
Christopher Kennedy ...........................................................................21
Speech Identification Procedure (poem)
Life Cycle (poem)
King Cobra Does the Mambo (poem)
Kelle Groom ..........................................................................................23
The Beginning of the World (poem)
Omanii Abdullah-Grace .......................................................................24
It Ain’t Only Hard Out Here for a Pimp (poem)
Philip Memmer .....................................................................................26
Mouse (poem)
Stephen Dunn .......................................................................................28
Limrance (poem)
E.C. Osondu (winner of the Allen and Nirelle Galson
Prize for Fiction) ..................................................................................30
Teeth (short story)
Rhina P. Espaillat ..................................................................................38
Lord of the Dance (poem)
George Saunders and Jhumpa Lahiri .................................................39
A Conversation (interview)
John Thompson .....................................................................................49
Young Man (painting)
Washing (painting)
Mario Javier ...........................................................................................51
Searching for My Sun (painting)
Magical Visions: Utopia (painting)
John Bul Dau .........................................................................................53
Hope Is Never Lost (memoir)
Duk County (photographs)
Stephen Carlson ....................................................................................62
Untitled (1-4) (paintings)
S. Ann Skiold .........................................................................................64
For V (collage)
Monk Rowe ...........................................................................................65
’Long as the Music Plays (essay)
Victor Oshel ..........................................................................................73
The Art of Silence (poem)
Playroom (poem)
Georgia Popoff ......................................................................................75
27 Names for Tears (poem)
JoEllen Kwiatek .....................................................................................76
August Burial (poem)
Victoriana (poem)
Mary Gaitskill ........................................................................................77
The Man with the Hammer (essay)
Gail Hoffman ........................................................................................81
Circus Event (sculpture)
Elena Peteva ...........................................................................................82
The King (painting)
Church and State I (painting)
The Blind (painting)
Mary Giehl .............................................................................................85
Sweet (installation)
Douglas Biklen ......................................................................................86
Bright Field, Dark Sky (photograph)
Sky After Turner (photograph)
Bob Gates ..............................................................................................88
Winter Playground (photograph)
Shadows (photograph)
Duet (photograph)
Elaine Handley ......................................................................................91
Deep River (novel excerpt)
Marion Wilson .....................................................................................109
Entering John Jamelske’s House, 2006 (various media)
Jack White ............................................................................................114
Totem (OBO) I (construction)
Totem (OBO) VI (construction)
Errol Willett .........................................................................................116
Islamic Espalier (ceramic)
Thomas Glave .....................................................................................117
Milk/Sea; Sentience (short story)
Woman Impossible Task (short story)
Minnie Bruce Pratt .............................................................................132
Eating Alone (poem)
Driving to Work in the Dark (poem)
Lucy Harrison (winner of the Bea González Prize for Poetry) .............134
Swear with Me (poem)
Under Great Trees (poem)
Magpie (poem)
The Spell of Autism (poem)
David Eye .............................................................................................136
Matins (poem)
Evensong (poem)
Kyle Bass ..............................................................................................137
The Heart of Fear (play)
Regis Cook ..........................................................................................149
Last Night Was Radical… (poem)
Robert Phillips ....................................................................................150
From The Ice House Poems
Larry Bissonnette ................................................................................152
My Classic Life as an Artist (commentary and paintings)
Wendy Moleski ....................................................................................156
Lawn Gone (photograph)
Michael Petrosillo ...............................................................................157
The Governor (short story)
David Lloyd .........................................................................................170
Diety (poem)
The Touch (poem)
Diana Whiting (winner of the Michael Fawcett Prize for Visual Arts) ....171
Sunflower (photograph)
Days Gone By (photograph)
False Helibore (photograph)
Birch Stand (photograph)
LaToya Ruby Frazier ..........................................................................174
The Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006
(commentary and photographs)
David Hajdu ........................................................................................180
Then Let Us Commit Them (essay)
Mark Bender ........................................................................................193
Shock and Awe (painting)
NRA (painting)
Christopher Gray ................................................................................195
Collage Vote (Philadelphia) (photograph)
New Orleans Ensemble (photograph)
William Neumire ................................................................................197
This Year’s Winner (poem)
A Solatium on the Equinox (poem)
Paul B. Roth ........................................................................................199
Missing Remains (poem)
Charles Martin ....................................................................................200
The Flower Thief (poem)
Wendy Harris ......................................................................................201
Empty (painting)
Bad Girls’ Café (painting)
Lewraine Graham ...............................................................................202
Tree Line (painting)
These Fields (painting)
Anne Novado Cappuccilli .................................................................204
Emergence/Submergence (painting)
Jakk Glen III ........................................................................................205
A Tatoo’s Story (poem)
Duriel E. Harris ..................................................................................206
Enduring Freedom: American Doxology (poem)
Bad Breast: Self Portrait as a Wire Mother (poem)
Wendy Gonyea ....................................................................................208
Foundation (poem)
Enemies No More (poem)
W.D. Snodgrass ...................................................................................210
Snodgrass Revises:
The Discreet Spoils of a Reichstag Fire (poem)
The Discreet Advantages of a Reichstag Fire (poem)
Leah Zazulyer ......................................................................................212
Stealing From a Deep Place (poem)
Vi Lebedike (poem)
Laurie Stone ........................................................................................216
Threads (memoir)
Joseph Scheer ......................................................................................228
A Celebration of Moths (commentary and photographs)
Carly June L’Ecuyer ............................................................................233
The Ballet (short story)
Carrie Mae Weems ..............................................................................236
Rome Projects (commentary)
What Do You See in Me (various media)
Bryan McGrath ...................................................................................244
Porcelain Bowl (ceramic)
Salt Glazed Lidded Jar (ceramic)
Paul Aviles ............................................................................................245
The Painted Doors at San Cristobel (poem)
Evalena Aisha Johnson .......................................................................248
Cold Silence (poem)
Diana Abu-Jaber ..................................................................................249
Syracuse in the Blood (interview by Robert Colley)
Luvon Sheppard ..................................................................................256
Sister Vesta #2 (drawing)
