CONTRIBUTORS FROM PAST VOLUMES
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Volume 1 Ingredients for Sleep of Six Days Dennis Saleh Boothbay Harbor Jane Bachner Imprints in Blackfeet Country Kimberly M. Blaeser Steve at Little Sister Jenny Beyer Ask Me About My Children E. McGrand Water Witch Susannah Lloyd Los Angeles Bakery Wendy Herbert Cerca De Aqui Kimberly M. Blaeser Puncuation in Time of Drought Ben Miller Alloy Kathleen Iddings The Farm in 1944 Walter McDonald The Front Porch Kelly Hawley Owl’ Cough Balls Peggy Schumaker Fairground (Munich, 1943) E. McGrand Necklaces Rasma Haidri Bethel at Christmas Carolyn Kremers Nocturnal Frenzy Susan Taubel Rituals, Yours—and Mine Kimberly M. Blaeser Orange Peel Peggy Schumaker Dedicated to D.S. Gwen Goodwin She Who Sees Kira Corser Diving Wendy Herbert Blue Curacao Leilani Kastantin The Percussionist Ryan Finco Scratch Anne Giles Rimbey Late Night in a Village Jay Mouton Untitled Kelly Hawley Mad Girl Can’t Look too Near Lyn Lifshin A Visual Feast Nicole Stellon Not Frozen Laura Titley Fetal Position Deanne Bayer Waterfall Forrest Musselman Amnesiac Laura Albrecht Untitled Gregory Maronick For my Brother Bebe Fehlig Something Dead Kelly Hawley The Arc E. McGrand Avalanche Lily Peggy Schumaker Ebb Kent McCullough Leaving Nicole Stellon Baking in the Sun Marie Kuschel My Left Sock James Bertolino End of Summer Sandra Gillespie Evil Child Jennifer Hougum Cannibal Scott Gibson Mercury Shari Berkowitz Family Reunion Kathleen Iddings Somewhere Gary Blankenburg
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Volume 4 Learning to Read David Cho Sonic Nude Philip Dacey Somewhere, A Missing Torso Zach Schomburg Somewhere, A Train Depot Zach Schomburg Walking at Night Casey VanderVeen Goldie Edward M. Belfar Cemetary Photo Gus Fesenfeld Robert Frost’s Bones Dan Sklar Blueberry Soft-Serve William Doreski Growing Radishes E. Michael Desilets Pulled by the Same Moon Lori Kean All the Stars Drip Down like Butter Whitney Strub Replacing the Gods Mark Johnson Cat Photo Gus Fesenfeld Let’s Stay Together John R. Thelin The Pear, Moss Duane Locke The Bath Judith L. Wyatt Inside These White Picket Fences Matthew Flynn Caya Cabin Photo Gerald Wheeler Fishing the Poca River Ace Boggess While Pondering the Possibility of Reincarnation Helen Lawson Caramel Suzanne Burns Ambulance Stephanie Dickinson Half Girl Stephanie Dickinson A Line I’ve Written John Sweet Book Signing Party Richard Fein Waking God Eric R. Olson Prayer to the Snake Goddess Mary Winters The Arthritis Cantata Jack Anderson Eagle Gus Fesenfeld Butterfly Prophets Augusta Easa Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy Bids you good night Suzanne Burns |
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Volume 5 To Write a Poem Michael L. Johnson Singing Corn Syrup in the Post-Industrial Age Mike Kane The Balloon Man Heidi Ihrke The Letters We Do Not Keep Michelle Valois Dance 105: Ballroom Dancing Christin M. Rigsby How You Look Anna Smith Time Dean Gorman Marathon Dow Ville Whenever I Hear Barbarito Diez’s Song “Angelitos Negros” Virgil Suarez A Serpent Halved the World, Train Ride From El Paso to Los Angeles Virgil Suarez Work Poem Virgil Suarez Untitled Karen Landmann Red Brides Leni Zumas The Woman at the Door Helen Tzagoloff Once on a Devon Cliff Sandra Olson Apart Philip Dacey Interiors Jan Shoemaker September Morning Mi Ae Lipe-Butterbrodt Iona Lisa Ione Citrin The Nude Beach Photographer Gary J. Maggio The Eden of our Past Anthony Verre Insurance Policy Shoshauna Shy Untitled Karen Landmann In Vino Veritas Ryan Miller Prelude 15 Pearl Karrer Two Endings, One Goodbye Devorah Namm Red Oak Books Adam J. Mueller Nightmare Karla Huston Public Art Ryan Stello A Warning Michael L. Johnson
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Volume 6 Pajaro Blanco, White Bird William Barillas Brown Rachelle Street Urban Self Portrait Jacqueline Newman-Speiser How to Find a Pin Susan Richardson The River Alone Laura Long The Snowstorm Charles Grosel On Finding Her Father Out Shanti Weiland Days Seamus P. O’Cuinn Light Seamus P. O’Cuinn Blue Your Eyes Joan McNerney Closets Bayard Snapshots Reginald S. Lewis A Girl Named Reverie Reginald S. Lewis Ramses Ione Citrin Codes Philip Dacey Not Dying Philip Dacey Drawing Bonnie Schetski If I were a Woman Octavio Quintanilla My Father and Albert Belle J. Michael Rutledge Remains Thought to be Female Galdiator’s Ace Boggess Object Elizabeth Pitzner What He Said Louis McKee Cliché Louis McKee Nightmare Louis McKee Village Vampire Eva Maria Ginsburg The Body of Christ Neil Carpathios Amen Patricia J. Kinney The Road to Jesus Cathy Warner Pretending to be God Neil Carpathios Shadowtree Matthew Schwenke Love Melanie Vanderkolk Drama Melanie Vanderkolk Too Much Girl Amorak Huey Rain Jill Divan Drowning Amy Schmitt Hopeless Amy Schmitt A Professor’s Wife Amy Day Wilkinson Heat Lightning Jef Leisgang Ring of Kerry Benjamin Stern Fishing in Manitoba’s Rain Anthony Verre Summer of the Lemon Sun Jodi Fredericksen A Face Only a Mother Could Love T.J. Belle Bracelets Ione Citrin
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Volume 7 Advice to a Young Poet Seamus P. O’Cuinn Simultaneous Submissions Ronna Wineberg Objet d’Art Philip Dacey What Makes Us Human Jonathan Blake Mortality Sandy McCord Memorial Lynne Burgess Roaring Silence Gwen Morgan Threading the Universe Anne C. Bromley Untitled Katrina Majkut Lilacs Lynne Burgess New York Minute Stephen Kessler In My Car Larry Crist Buddy’s Mules J.T. Ledbetter Whiz Phillip Dacey Puzzle William Woofitt Going Back Home, a Drinking Game John Grey Family of Champions Janice J. Heiss Dr. Daniels Authentic Transylvanian Psychic Boutique Stephen Kessler Truth Barry Ballard You David Krump Windermere, Cumbria Anna Torborg Lung Woman Stephanie Dickinson My Old Man’s Old Man Larry Crist Dog Lady Branches and Birds David Kump Book Passion Belinda Subraman Black, the old blue Allsion Whittenberg Violette is Gone William Doreski Untitled Nate Hoffman Nightfall Mike Lipstock So Bun La’or Matthew Robinson Trembling Delirium Carla Conley Commute Karen R. Porter Banding… C.D. Sharbrough Untitled Gerald R. Wheeler Little Latin Loopy Lou David Thornbrugh Something E. Sanderson Nine Roads Diverged in a Blackened Forest John McKernan Sandshadow Robert Jackson soft poems Robert Tinajero
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Volume 8 It Took a Week to Recite Hamlet’s Five Acts John McKernan Head Cases Robert Pringle Both Belong to Me Seth Klekamp The Glass Eye Jess Littlejohn The Re-Invited Barry Ballard First and Last Ed Miller The Day Before She Left David Starkey Wallflower Peggy Garrison Oxygen Rowan Johnston After John McKernan A Logical Thing Jill Divan Larae/Afterdeath C.C. Russell As the Left Hand of Your Shadow Flicks a Cigarette C.C. Russell Ponte Del Diablo Nels Johnson The Violin Case Mario Susko St. Blaise Donna Pucciani Raining in the Mountains Kyle David Torke Le Petit Trianon Carol Bergman Notes of a Juror Philip Dacey On the Way Down Jennifer Rudsit Dream Pulp Terri Dennehy Zoo Story J. T. Ledbetter Modern Architects Michael Salcman Seed of Reason Seth Klekamp Origins Brandi Homan Sex How Beautiful You Were John McKernan Chunky’s Revenge Gayla Chaney Enjoyment Matt Dennison Caruthers Park George Seli Roofs of Dubrovnik Nels Johnson The Land of Great Loss Yvonne Sapia What We Tell the Children Jennifer Everson The Unknown Wendy Allen Nature Gives a Retirement Speech Barry Ballard At Various Beachside Bars Anne C. Fowler Bone Woman Janie Breggin Braverman Tree of Fate Lucas Heineman Missed Fortunes Walter Bargen Preludes, OP. 28 Askold Skalsky
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10 Cheri Alma Ayers In the Family Way Mark Belair Nostalgia J.E. Bennett Jakeleg Troy Bigelow In the Snows of Conception Charles Edward Brooks How the Cat was Skinned Allan Douglass Coleman On First Beating My Father at Chess Andrew Drazkowski “Paint on Canvas” Maureen Tolman Flannery Hotel Rating Kathryn Gahl Strawberry Fields Camille Goodison White Night in June John Grey The Art of Living Together K.S. Hardy The Barn Saint Robert Haynes After Deer Hunting Near Tahoe Marcia L. Hurlow Tinnitus Lowell Jaeger Horse Heaven Hills Summer Camp Nels Johnson “Ryan” “Artichoke” “Reclamation” Tom Miller Juvik Aiding and Abetting Tim Kahl Obedience to Spring Allan Kaplan The Dream Interpreter Patricia Kampmeier I Never Lay in Grass Joan Kip Paris Kim Knowels Ruth and the Window Washers Pamela L. Laskin Metaphor Michelle Lemmens “Hippie District” “Grandpa Flash” “Yosemite Valley” Ken Letko On the Beach, Crescent City, CA Rebecca Lilly Haiku #5 Luciana Lopez Sarah Learns Her Smile Eva Miodownik Oppenheim Another Spring in the City Wilda Morris Baking Carla Panciera Ice Skates Donna Pucciani Travels Georgia Ressmeyer Rain’s Funeral Molly Ritvo Babysitting J.E. Robinson Five Verses Margaret A. Robinson Gimmie a Bite Mark Saba Tree Tectonics Terry Savoie In Tompkins Square Park: June 1968 Carol Schwalberg Uncle Louie Has No Pants William Swarts An Autumn Poem Jeffrey Talmadge The Man Who Remembered Everything John Thomas Time Capsule Michael Walls Rushing Down Fifty-Seventh Street Francine Witte Chicken Pictures Arnie Yasinski Villanelle For My Hips
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