Category: Past Issues

CONTENTS

POETRY

1 EMILY ROSE COLE Love Poem to Myself
13  SANDRA BEASLEY  We Got an A-; But You Know What I Mean
23 WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS  An Afternoon Thunderstorm
24 MATTHEW GUENETTE  I Too Have Been Unfaithful
32 CADE LEEBRON  Even My Hair Tie Is Sparkly, Asshole; In Winter
43 JEAN-MARK SENS  Brother Wolf
49 JUDITH SAUNDERS  Iris
50 GUY BEINING  Case
55 SARA J. GROSSMAN  Disabled Girl as Water Queen; Disability Impact Statement
82 KATHERINE WILLIAMS  The Book of Geoff
90 RAY MCMANUS  In the Museum of Men and Their Machines; Homo Habitus

FICTION

2    SHOBHA RAO  Bunny
15  KEVIN BARRY  Old Stock
25 DOUG RAMSPECK  Balloon
34 AMY STUBER  Astrology for Everyone
44 RON RASH  The Eagle
51 GEORGE CHOUNDAS  Of Satisfaction and the Lying Sun
58 L. DAVIS  Love in the Time of Non-Euclidean Geometry
66 OINDRILA MUKHERJEE  Roommates
85 JOSH RANDALL  Something Vulnerable
95 CAROL DUNBAR  Last Gleaning

INTERVIEW

110 LEE MORRISSEY  Comedy is the Great Consolation: An Interview with Kevin Barry

BOOK REVIEWS

119 DAVID FARLEY  Mapping Modern Landscapes of the Body
123 DAN LEACH  A Lowcountry Gumbo
126 ANGELINA OBERDAN  Other Voices, Other Bodies

CONTRIBUTORS

130

CONTENTS

1 Wayne Chapman Dedication

POETRY

5 Richard Garcia Katherine
12 David Mohan Hat
13  Jody Winer Bed
38 Jonathan Greenhause A New Attitude; Do not go gently
56 Carrie Shipers Preparing to Leave the Hospital: A Beginner’s Guide
58 Michael Waters Madam Marie
59 Doug Ramspeck Aubade, with Entropy
78 Lisa Hase-Jackson It Happened at Southbrook
79 JC Reilly Time Machine
96 D. Gilson The Hardy Boys & The Church of Bones
97 Derek Mong Lightning 4; Lightning 6
112 Gilbert Allen Belief
113 Scott Withiam Grace

FICTION

6 Carolyn Oliver How Vivian Vaughan Lost the Night Sky
14 John McNally The Fear of Everything
23 Bernard Grant The Gap Between Us
41 Daniel Paul Love (in Airplane Mode)
60 Becky Adnot-Haynes If You Let the Body Lead
81 Lance Olsen grammar : the clatter of time
84 Jacqueline Guidry Golden Then Gone
99 David Jacobs Project Bliss
114 Eric Rasmussen Borrowed Cars

ESSAYS

123 J.D. Ho When Pittsburgh Comes Tumbling Down
131 Gordon Van Ness “A certain starstruck quality”: The Curious Relationship of John Updike and James Dickey

BOOK REVIEWS

144 Jane Hill The Reconstructed Lives of Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
149 Lee Morrissey Two Perspectives on the
Enlightenment in Ireland: Material and Intellectual
155 Skip Eisiminger Equipped for When the Lightning Strikes

CONTRIBUTORS 158

Contents

Fiction

Michael Parker • Stragglers ……………………………………………………….. 7
Tobey Ward • The Guest Room ………………………………………………… 16
Kenny Marotta • Tomb Visits …………………………………………………. 29
Brock Clarke • Smart Shopper • Time Travel ……………………………. 51
Jon Sealy • Honk If I’m Paying Your Mortgage ………………………….. 55
Jade Wallace • Cryptid …………………………………………………………….. 70
Leslie Pietrzyk • The Door of No Return …………………………………….74
Eugene Radice • The Oil of Science ………………………………………….. 80

Poetry

John Lee Clark • Nicholas Saundersson, 1682–1739 …………………… 5
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
• Questionnaire for Two Pussies …………………………………………….. 10
Maya Marshall • Poem about The Time… • Family Photo …………. 14
Robin Richstone • Switched-Baby Syndrome ……………………………. 26
John Sibley Williams • Fallow as That • Field Confessional ………. 27
David Colodney • Eleven Days ………………………………………………… 50
Gabrielle Brant Freeman • Every Western ………………………………… 53
Daye Phillippo • Great Crested Flycatcher ………………………………… 69
Raymond Luczak • Lunafly ……………………………………………………… 72
James B. Nicola • She was So Good …………………………………………… 73
Emily K. Michael • Natural Compliance • Mint ………………………… 78
Gaylord Brewer • A Little Poem to Life …………………………………….. 99
Rick Mulkey • A Scatalogical Scat ………………………………………….. 101

Essays
Skip Eisiminger • “It’s Loading, Gramps”: Waiting ………………. 103
Delia Steverson • Madness, Melancholia, and Suicide in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees …………………………………………… 108
Jeffrey Meyers • Fire and Ice: James Dickey’s To the White Sea… 124
Mary A. Gervin • Carson McCullers’ Remembrance of Things Past: Illumination and Night Glare as Memoir …………………………..134
Book Reviews
Hallman Bell Bryant • Victoria’s Secret …………………………………… 145
Mark Powell • Ron Rash’s World of Dark Beauty……………………….156
Gary Kerley • “Feed Him Another Feast of Recognition”: The Legacy of Pat Conroy ……………………………………………………. 159
Erin Gale • Lives on the Boundary …………………………………………. 166
Mike Pulley • Poetry and Female Survival ……………………………… 172
Amy Borders • A Shadow of One’s Former Self ……………………….. 176
David Tillinghast • Slippery Words…………………………………………. 181
Contributors …………………………………………………………………….185