Volume XXX, Numbers 1 & 2
Fall 2009/Spring 2010
Cover Art: Mark Davis,
Spectator
Cover photo by A.J. Wild
Table of Contents
Fiction
Ryan Call “Hair of My Head”
Alan Stewart Carl “A People’s History of Martin Zansamere”
Sarah Cornwell “Other Wolves on Other Mountains”
Gabe Durham “Every Mostly Great Man in the State”
Lucas Farrell “An Elaborate System for Communicating With People Who Don’t Live Here”
Roxane Gay “Down to Bone”
William Giraldi “The Woods of Newark”
Peter Grimes “Let Mot Faux”
Peter Levine “Ribbon, Tree, Father, Son”
Jessie Marshall “Faith: A Love Story”
Rebecca Rasmussen “Cowboy Up, Sugar”
Lucas Southworth “The Running Legs and Other Stories”
J. David Stevens “The Corpses”
Joe Wilkins “Real Cowboys”
Poetry
Piper Abernathy “Post Production”
Nick Admussen “Nowhere to Go, Gone”
Amy Ash “After Dinner”
Josiah Bancroft “An Astronomer Shines to a Star”
Becca Barniskis “No, Thank You”
E.C. Belli “Schönried, 1990”
Billie Bernard “Secret”
B. J. Best “Mushrooms”
George Bilgere “Walking the Dog”
Rob Carney “Not All Nursery Rhymes Rhyme”
Bruce Cohen “Identity Crisis”
Jazzy Danziger “Earthquake in Wabash Valley, Three Months Before Our Engagement”
Mary Christine Delea “When You’re a Girl”
Denise Duhamel “Having a Diet Coke With You”
Joseph Gross Two Poems
Joshua Harmon Five Poems from Le Spleen de Poughskeepie
K.A. Hays “As Sleep Comes, Thought”
Jay Hopler “Treatise on the Nature of Art”
Roy Jacobstein “Ring & After-Ring & Echo”
Holly Karapetkova “Wild Child”
Rebecca Lauren Two Poems
Hugh Martin “The War Was Good, Thank You”
Kelly Moore “An alternate ending to my affair with Mr. Blank (II)”
Sarah Rose Nordgren “Carving the New Family”
Kathryn Nuernberger “Other People’s Children”
Jessica Piazza Two Poems
Joanna Rawson “Blowback”
Karen Rigby “Autobiography as a Panamanian Botanical Index”
Michael Rutherglen “Singularity”
Cassie Schmitz “The Fitting”
Katherine Soniat Two Poems
Alexandra Teague Two Poems
Philip Terman “What We Own”
G.C. Waldrep Two Poems
Nonfiction
Anna Leahy and Larissa Szporluk “Good Counsel: A Conversation About Poetry Writing, the Imagination, and Teaching””
W. Scott Olsen “The World Record”
The 2009 Fineline Competition
First Prize: Alan Michael Parker “Fifteen Ways to Think About the Italian Opera”
Editors’ Choice: Kelli Boyles Two Pieces
Editors’ Choice: Jaime Brunton “My Life as Roland Barthes (compétence/expertise)
Editors’ Choice: Ashley Davidson “Unplug Your Heart Like a Toaster”
Editors’ Choice: Cherie Hunter Day “Postcard From a Natural Disaster”
Editors’ Choice: Richard Garcia “Former Lovers”
Editors’ Choice: Ian Golding “Extinct Birds of North America”
Editors’ Choice: Nina Mamikunian “The Dictionary Comes in Cake Boxes”
Editors’ Choice: Alan Michael Parker “Nineteen Baby Anteaters in a Japanese Zoo”
Editors’ Choice: Jennie Thompson “Blindfold”
The 2009-2010 James Wright Poetry Award
First Prize: Kimberly Davis “Alchemy”
Editors’ Choice: Gretchen Steele Pratt “Epithalamion”
Editors’ Choice: Casey Thayer “Our Order of the Lonely-Hearted”
The 2009-2010 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award
First Prize: Jill Haberkern “The Downstairs Family”
Editors’ Choice: Nick Kocz “More of the Same”
Editors’ Choice: Jeff Martin “Steeled”
Featured Poet
Tony Trigilio “I’m Going to Bust this Case Wide Open”
The 2009 AWP Intro Journals Awards
David Lumpkin “Evidence of Things Not Seen”
Kayla Skarbakka “Shaded Noon”
Translations
Oscar Hahn Two Poems
Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Fleck
Translation Chapbooks
Jorge Fernández Granados “Constructed on Coincidence”
Translated from the Spanish by W. Nick Hill
Henrik Nordbrant “Wind From a Distant Autumn”
Translated from the Danish by Thomas E. Kennedy
What We’re Reading
Tounge of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki by Tony Barnstone
Late News from the Wilderness by Elinor Benedict
The White Museum by George Bilgere
Snakeskin Road by James Braziel
Tryst by Angie Estes
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank
Feeding Strays: Short Stories by Stefanie Freele
In an Uncharted Country by Clifford Garstang
Cool Auditor by Ray Gonzalez
American Fractal by Timothy Green
On the Winding Stair by Joanna Howard
The House by Lynn K. Kilpatrick
Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field Edited by Tara L. Masih
Flinch of Song by Jennifer Militello
A Letter to Serafin by John Minczeski
Blood Will Tell by Craig Paulenich
Beauty Breaks In by Mary Ann Samyn
what the world will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
Heathen by Lesley Wheeler
Selected Poems by Dara Wier
