Issue #164: Summer 2008
Poetry
Hannah Craig - As Far as We Are Able
Oliver de la Paz - Self-Portrait with Taxidermy
Debra Brenegan - The Other Side
- Mother
Paul Hamill - Cigar Stub
Christine Marshall - Sweat
Jeneva Stone - A Walk Near the Capitol
Matt Rasmussen - Empty Neighborhood
Michele Santamaría - Simultaneous Translation, I
Rita Mae Reese - Spurious Entry
Michael Murray - Sunday Morning
Lesléa Newman - Benny the Floor Waxer
- Upon Hearing that the Second Avenue Deli
is Being Replaced by Chase Manhattan Bank
Martin Woodside - Waiting for the Train, If I Could Say
Richard Hoffman - An Old Story
Joe Hall - Second Lament for Albert Hall, Delivered
While Seated
Jeanine Walker - On the eve of your deployment
Alberto Ríos - Tuesday Soup
- When Shopping Was Every Day:
Nogales, 1956
- The Injured Thumb
- The Dangerous Shirt
Lori Davis - The Woodcutter
Jacquelyn Malone - Ice Fox
Rachel Wetzsteon - from "Ferocious Alphabets"
Khaleda Edib Chowdhury - Newsman at the Night Desk
Dilara Hashem - First Sight
Haines Eason - Field
Tarfia Faizullah - Family Photograph
Terri McCord - Nonpareil Art
- What Can Hold
Sara Dailey - Beauty Lesson
David Wagoner - Onstage
Henrietta Goodman - After Birth
Julia Wendell - Menopause
Christopher Goodrich - Spotless
Fiction
Gemini Wahhaj - Funny-Looking People
Richard Lange - The Deaths of Various Animals
Megan Harlan - Gazelle
Non-Fiction
Margaret Conway - Grasshopper
Gladys Swan - Angels and Torture in the Fiction of Thomas E. Kennedy
Cover
Shane Brown - Scenic Overlook
Contributor's Notes