Issue 27
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief: Lori Suderlind
Executive Editor: Jennifer Lucas
Managing Editor: Gregory Cowles
Poetry Editors: Jennifer Franjlin & Elizabeth Stein
Prose Editor: Ken Foster
Art Directors: Rebecca D’ Alise & Aurora West
Assistant Prose Editor: Elizabeth Hickey
Graphic Design: Bryant Palmer
Circulation Manager: Kevin Roth
Editorial Board: Gregory Donovan, Steve Glazer, Martha Guild, Myronn Hardy, David Semanki, Sam Shores, Amy Silna, Tracy Smith, Rae Vukovich
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Michael S. Manley/ A History of Broken Laws
Jan Meissner/ Placedo Junction
Sheila Kohler/ On the Money
Elizabeth Graver/ A Place Not There
Josh Harmon/ Saved From the World
Special Section
Translation:
Liliana Ursu/ Ancient and Beautiful as the Mist & Diana’s Shadow & Evening After Evening & Blues & From the Angel’s Window & Unforgetting & Spring Circumstance & Way of the Stars & The Key to Mystery & Number IX & Heirophany & Comic Tunnel, Dialogue of Body and Soul
Kobo Abe/ Hand
Gwyneth Lewis/ Whose coat is that jacket? & Whose hat is that cap?
Poetry from the East
Elizabeth Macklin/ The Secret Note You Were & Handed by Lorca
Samn Stockwell/ Perihelion
David Lehman/ When a Woman Loves a Man
Leslea Newman/ The Return of Buddy & Still Life With Buddy
Terese Svoboda/ At the Castle
William Logan/ Thunderstorm & Slugs
Judith Baumel/ Hot
Charles North/ As Moonlight Becomes You
Susan Wheeler/ Oldest Psalter & Sleeping Sister
Jean Monahan/ The Concert
Marie Howe/ Late Morning & The First Gate & One of the Last Days
Laurie Sheck/ White Light & Black Night & The Harbor Boats
Poetry from the West
Linda Bierds/ The Breaking-Aways & Shawl: Dorothy Wordsworth at Eighty
Kay Ryan/ Weakness and Doubt & Failure & Drops in the Bucket
James Reiss/ Lowland Level
Nance Van Winckle/ Cutting Lentils
Kim Addonizio/ Prayer
Daniel Tobin/ At the Egyption Exhibit
Nin Andrews/ How You Lost Your Red Hat
Scott C. Cairns/ Yahweh’s Image
Beth Gylys/ How I was
Natalie Kusz/ After Bedtime & Letter to David, My Father’s Best Friend
Essay
Tom Perrotta Bumping Into Klaus: A Cold War Encounter
Art
An interview with curators: Bronwyn Keenan and Meg Linton
Comics and Cartoons
Leslie Sternbergh
James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook
Alison Bechdel
Edward Koren
Bruce Eric Kaplan
Interview
With noverlist Lisa Shea and screenwrite James Bosleye
Winter Competition
Michelle Mitchell- Foust/ Five Songs for a Psalmist
Jason Brown/ Halloween
