Issue 5, Winter/Spring 2008

Fiction

Chris Bachelder Gatsby’s Hydroplane [read]
John Brandon The Coming Summer
Suzanne Halmi No More Happy Birthdays [read]
Roy Kesey Stump
Owen King Nothing is in Bad Taste
Marshall N. Klimasewiski Aëronauts
Paul Lisicky The Didache
Ben Stroud Borden’s Meat Biscuit

Poetry

Jonathan Barrett 10 O’clock News
Ann Buggey Fish
Marina Colasanti (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey) Jantar familiar (Family Dinner) and No silêncio (Amidst Silence)
Sally Dawidoff At Twenty and Psychoanalyric
Geri Doran The Dark Octaves and Swan Goes [read]
Ori Joseph Fienberg The Seasons
Martin Galvin Crazy Bones
Bob Hicok What is the etymology of etymology? [read]
Mark Jarman Ownership
Jan Marie LaPerle Motherhood
Jeanne Larsen The Garden of Roses
Beth Martinelli Water-Bearing Bodies
J. Morris When She Told Me No
H. E. Sayeh (translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi) Ghorrobe Chaman (Sunset on the Green) [read] and Tasvir (Image)
Heather Sellers Listening to the New Tom Petty
Anis Shivani The War in Iraq Poses Irreducible Problems in Identification
Ben Sonnenberg The Goat in the Moonlight, Speedwriting, Jessica’s Farewell, and Paris
C. Dale Young Blood

Nonfiction

Mark Doty Still Life: Coda

In the Swamp (detail), Charles E. Burchfield, 1917