Fall 2009 Issue

FROM THE EDITOR / Ann Keeling (click here to read)
FALL 2009 STAFF LIST (click here to view)

WEB EXCLUSIVES

CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Wisdom of Old Tom / Christine Keyes (click here to read)

DRAMA
Cortez’s Landing as Remembered by a “New Journalist”
/ John Schimmel (click here to read)

FICTION
Do Not Resuscitate / Tony Buccola, Jr. (click here to read)

POETRY
Animal Instinct 2008 / Sharon Lynn Cicilian (click here to read)

IMAGES
Chicago Honeycomb / Tyler Whidden (click to view)
Canopy / Angela S. Patane (click to view)
Imagine 1 / John N. Kaczorowski (click to view)

POETRY

Ars Poetica / Nicholas A. Destino
Sleeping With Carl / Susan Deer Cloud
On Dying / Annalee Dunn
Baby Eater / Sharon Lynn Cicilian
Molting / Annalee Dunn
A Historiography of Afghan War: an excerpt from the book-length poem, Migizi / Guillermo Bosch (a.k.a. William Meiss)
Liminal Admissions / Jenn Angela Lopes
Recalling Mexico / Annalee Dunn
Crooked / Keith Eisner
“The labors of so many eminent thinkers . . . have as yet brought history only to the threshold of science.”–Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, 19th century evolutionist
/ Kristen Stone (Editor Web Pick: click here to read)

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Rita / Katy M. Zirbel
My Vibrator Has Ink Stains. Or: A Bathtub Story / Samantha D. Fisher
Boy in the White Knit Hat / Brad Buckner (Editor Web Pick: click here to read)
Heaven in Helltown / John Schimmel
Sisu: an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress / Ann Hedreen
Frozen / Lisa Vaas
A Simple Request: an excerpt from the memoir, An Unremarkable Illness / John N. Kaczorowski

DRAMA

Chicken Shit / Tony Buccola, Jr.
Wibargers’s Wake: an excerpt / George D. Obermiller
Screamers / Will Mallon

CROSS GENRE

Skin Makes Meaning Out of Medicine / Liza Wolff-Francis
Candy Beetles / Lisa Vaas

FICTION

Landlady Land: an excerpt / Elizabeth Molly Howard
The Waking: an excerpt from the novel / Karen K. Hugg
Rosewood / Cody T Luff (Editor Web Pick: click here to read)
Rain: an excerpt from the novella / Phil Paddock
Death / Nikki Kallio
Disappearing Lines / Heidi E. White

CRITICAL COMMENTARY

A Writer’s Life: Brenda Ueland’s Me: a Memoir / Ann Hedreen
Forging Characters by Fire: The Characterization in Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited and Kerouac’s Tristessa / Phil Duncan
Clothing in Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Nikki Kallio

IMAGES

Silent With Light / Robert Gaston
What Was Once, My Heart / Robert Gaston
Herald / Aholaah Arzah
Wetlands / Angela S. Patane
Fat Smitty’s Retirement Fund / Nikki Kallio
Thunder Mountain Angel / Nikki Kallio

Front Cover Art: A Gift of Notes / Robert Gaston
Back Cover Art: Imagine 2 / John N. Kaczorowski