{"id":131,"date":"2014-04-18T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2014-05-05T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T03:11:11","slug":"volume-xxxi-no-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/midamericanreview\/volume-xxxi-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume XXXI, no. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Volume XXXI, Number 2
\nSpring 2011
\nCover Art: Nikkita Cohoon<\/span><\/span><\/center>
Cover design by Nikkita Cohoon & Michael Czyzniejewski<\/span><\/center>
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Table of Contents<\/h2>\n

Fiction<\/b>
\nMark Mayer “The Evasive Magnolio”
\nKate Finlinson “Transliteration”
\nMatt Mullins”The Braid”
\nRavi Mangla “Better Halves”
\nBrandi Wells “Contortionist Ballerina”
\nJames Tadd Adcox “Divination”
\nScott Onak Two Stories
\nShannon Cain “I Love Bob”
\nMathew Eck “The Many Inventions of Walt Whitman, Jr.”<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/b>
\nMichael Robins Two poems
\nMichael Schmeltzer “Elegy\/Ghost”
\nMary Ann Samyn Three Poems
\nKimberly Coutlier Green “For the Young Woman I Pass on the Beach”
\nJennifer Militello Two poems
\nCarrie Meadows Two poems
\nChristopher Shannon “Aircrafting”
\nSydney Lea Two Poems
\nMark Wagenaar Two poems
\nJim Daniels “Premature Aging”
\nAmy McInnus “Crab Spiders Have Eight Eyes”
\nCatherine Pierce “A Catalogue of My Desires From Age Sixteen to the Present”
\nAshley E. Booth “Crush”
\nClaire McQuerry “Pearls”
\nDavid Starkey “MMI”
\nJoe Wilkins “Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see”
\nAshley Danielle Ryle Two poems<\/p>\n

Nonfiction<\/b>
\nM. Ann Hull “Sound is a wave of pressure”
\nMatt Forsythe “Rev. Blankesoor–Or, How I Scrapped the Semicolon and Learned to Love the Dash”
\nLindsey Drager “Lament for a Dead Sister”<\/p>\n

Featured Poet<\/b>
\nTarfia Faizulla “Words for Every Kind of Woman”<\/p>\n

2010-11 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award<\/b>
\nWinner: Helen Klein Ross “Parrotfish”<\/p>\n

2010-11 James Wright Poetry Award<\/b>
\nWinner: Katie Umans “Forecast”
\nEditor’s Choice: Katie Umans “The Body Near the Paintings”
\nEditor’s Choice: Michele Battiste “In the House”
\nEditor’s Choice: Lauren Jensen “It’s as hard as so much is”
\nEditor’s Choice: Melanie McCabe “Beneath the Code”<\/p>\n

Translations<\/b>
\nEnrique Lihn “Dream and Variations”, Translated from the Spanish by Mary Crow
\nGuy Jean “If I were born in Florence”, Translated from the French by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
\nJuan Carlos Galeano “Leticia”, Translated from the Spanish by Jim Murphy<\/p>\n

Translation Chapbook<\/b>
\nMira Ku\u015b “Beneath an Avalanche of Waking”
\nTranslated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik<\/p>\n

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What We’re Reading<\/b>
\nWeather Stations<\/i>\u00a0by Ryan Call
\nYou’d Be a Stranger, Too: Stories by Weston Cutter<\/i>
\nRendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and Death<\/i>\u00a0by Frank E. Dobson, Jr.
\nHere and Now<\/i>\u00a0by Stephen Dunn
\nSuspended Heart<\/i>\u00a0by Heather Fowler
\nThe Great Frustration<\/i>\u00a0by Seth Fried
\nBusy Monsters<\/i>\u00a0by William Giraldi
\nLe Spleen de Poughkeepsie<\/i>\u00a0by Joshua Harmon
\nVolt<\/i>\u00a0by Alan Heathcock
\nBusy Monsters<\/i>\u00a0by William Giraldi
\nPictures of Houses With Water Damage<\/i>\u00a0by Michael Hemmingson
\nThe Language of Shedding Skin<\/i>\u00a0by Niki Herd.
\nSightseer<\/i>\u00a0by Cynthia Marie Hoffman
\nAvata<\/i>r by Evan Lavender-Smith
\nRemnants of Another Age<\/i>\u00a0by Nikola
\nMadzirov.\u00a0House Inspections<\/i>\u00a0by Carsten Ren\ufffd Nielsen (translated by David Keplinger)
\nPrayer and Parable: Stories by Paul Maliszewski<\/i>
\nMakeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls<\/i>\u00a0by Erika Meitner
\nLucky Fish<\/i>\u00a0by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
\nDamn Sure Right<\/i>\u00a0by Meg Pokrass
\nSimple Weight<\/i>\u00a0by Tania Runyan
\nWait<\/i>\u00a0by Alison Stine
\nHistoric Diary<\/i>\u00a0by Tony Trigilio
\nLook! Look! Feathers<\/i>\u00a0by Mike Young<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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