Table of Contents - Issue 4
Poetry
2
Brooks Haxton Flower Medley (after lines by Hayden Carruth, 1921-2008)
3 Hayden Carruth Valentine; Mark; (Untitled); Who’s Yer Muse?
6 Berle Jones Frozen Apples and the North Wind
9 Carl Dennis Above the River
11
Dick Allen Midnight Oil (Syracuse University, 1959);
When the Student Is Ready, the Master Appears
33 Leigh Anne Couch The Indwelling
45 Bruce Bennett April; Longing
82 Matthew Hotham What Ishmael Said to Isaac
107 Lyn Lifshin Arizona Ruins; Being Jewish in a Small Town;
Nights It Was Too Hot to Stay in the Apartment
128 Robert Darling Death and the Maiden; Vampires
130 Ann B. Knox Being Seen; Exquisite Corpse; Taking Shape
156 John Elvis Smelcer A Poet’s Soul Descending; Inadequacy;
The Hair on the Back of Your Neck
158 Bruce Smith Devotion: The Republic; Devotion: The Changeling
194 Joe-Anne McLaughlin The Wasps Took Her; Still, Life;
Same Old Song Sung Last
218 Austin MacRae Camera Obscura; Catch and Release
219 Heather Hallberg Yanda A Thin Slice of Apple;
Serious Children; The Door Into Memory
225 Juliana Gray Nancy Drew, 45, Posts on Match.Com; The Birds; Three Scenes
(winner of the Bea González Prize for Poetry)
230 Judith H. Montgomery Against Her Body in the Light;
Even/Song; Ghost Rig
242 Howard Nelson Walking With An 88-Year-Old Man
243 Robert McNamara February Sun; On L’Ile-aux-Marins;
Rome’s Freud
299 Robert Phillips Three Shorts
300 Irving Feldman America’s Favorite Poem in Mass Demonstration
Fiction
34 Angela Cannon-Crothers The Intuitive’s Guide to
Cloud-Reading
83 Doran Larson Mexicans
91 Jennifer Duffield White Tales From a Life on Fire
113 Stephanie Dickinson The Girl Who Watched
125 Hoa Ngo Tell Us About Your Best Kiss
251 Amalia Gladhart Stones, Buoys
261 Sarah Layden Hysterectomy (winner of the Allen and
Nirelle Galson Prize for Fiction)
284 David Lloyd From Dreamland, a novel
309 Barry Targan The Man in the Moon
Nonfiction
1 Brooks Haxton Remembering Hayden
21 Doran Larson Witness
23 A. Whitfield It Could Be Me
26 Jason Kim Initiation; Decisions
46 Julia Calagiovanni The Patron Saint of Palsies
48
Nancy Keefe Rhodes Blessings in Disguise: Lida Suchý and the Community Choir Photographs
171 Melissa Johnson Blue and Gold on the Blue Nile
174 Soniya Shah Welcome to Continental Airlines Flight 22
178 Kyle Bass Traces of Salt (Commentary on Tales from the Salt City)
200 Harriet Brown Singularities
208 Laurie Stone Seeing Susan Sontag
234 Jo Page Getting Them Married
Interview
141 Jennifer Pashley The Stone Canoe Interview: A Conversation
with Mary Gaitskill
Reviews
160 Nancy Keefe Rhodes Sandy Cioffi’s Sweet Crude (2009)
187 Nancy Keefe Rhodes A Rain Of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women’s Poetry from Francophone Africa
(2009)
Drama
72 Kyle Bass Spoons
Visual Arts
13 Paul Farinacci Death by #2; Nuclear Family; Father and Son—
A Bedtime Story
16
Jen Pepper Evolution of Expression: Archibald Lampman; Onomatopoetic PomPoms; Glistening Pearl
19 Ann Reichlin Translucent Home; Translucent Home, detail
133 Yvonne Buchanan Territories; Slippage
134 Dorene Quinn Tree Skin; Tree Skin, detail; Knot Restoration Project; Knot Restoration project, detail
136 Angela Kelly Shankill Road Bonfire Site, Belfast, N. Ireland;
The Titanic and us, Thompson Graving Dock,
Belfast, N. Ireland
138 Allyn Stewart Untitled #14; Untitled #9
140 Suzanne Proulx Hatchlings; Dust Bunnies
165 Neil Chowdhury India and “Little India”
206 Donalee Peden Wesley It’s a Fine Line Between...; Migration
221 Christopher Gianunzio In Search Of
228 Anne Novado Cappuccilli Large Unknown; Biomorphic Spazscattertacular; Biomorphic Form with
Appendage; Biomorphic Form Floating on an Angle
247 Pam McLaughlin Pia’s Get-A-Way: The Psych Ward
248 Sheila Smith Day of Falling Cows; Potholes
249 Jack White Swahili Vibrations; Ancestral Memory XX
250 Laura Adams Guth Young Love; Abagail
275 Emily Farranto Untitled 1, 2, 3 (winner of the Hedy and
Michael Fawcett Prize for Visual Arts)
278 Jeremy Randall Purple Silo Bottle; Funnel Stack
280 Chris Irick Fountain Elms Brooch Series; Gyroptere;
Turbine Brooch Series; Whittle’s Daisy Chain
282 Anne Cofer Stack; Sheets
297 Peter T. Bennett The Artist #9; The Artist #7
301
Greg Johnson Go Green!; 1987 Chevy Corvette;
My Favorite Michael Jordan Dunk
304
Megan Muldoon Cut Oranges; Oranges on Blue Cloth
(winner of the Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership)
306
Daniel Reinhold Michael, my brother; Baby Blue Rhino;
Daniel Blue
