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ISSUE ONE: Dec (00)-Feb (01)
Stan Rice (Featured Writer)
African Immigrant Outside Museum of Art
Alone in Love
Breaking Light
Eating Out
Mr Heade Went to Brazil
The Rhythms
Interview with Stan Rice
David Harouni (Featured Artist)
Painting 1
Painting 2
Painting 3
Painting 4
Painting 5
Painting 6
Painting 7
Painting 8
Painting 9
Painting 10
Painting 11
Painting 12
Painting 13
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
Interview with David Harouni
Poetry
Dee Rimbaud - Tranquility
Dee Rimbaud - Women Singing
Gilbert Allen - Beyond Barbie
Gilbert Allen - Good Luck
Janet Buck - Pocket Change
Janet Buck - Bird Watching
Janet Buck - The Laundromat
Al Maginnes - The Valley of Sleeping Women
Al Maginnes - Outlasting Elegy
Al Maginnes - Late Words for the Moon
Fiction
Linda Boroff - Everything I Have Is Yours
Melanie Faith - Kiko
Michael Jasper - Breathing Trouble
Michael Laimo - I Exude in Partials
Non-Fiction
Julia Kwan -
The Merchant of Venice
: For Love or M...
ISSUE TWO: Feb-Apr (01)
Susan Ludvigson (Featured Writer)
Discoveries in a Morning Diary
Where I Go At Night
Someone Who Believes Herself Native
Falling in Love Again
Yoko Ono in Bed with Einstein
Stepping Into a River
Interview with Susan Ludvigson
Charlotte Foust (Featured Artist)
Desert Sands
Winterlands
Mystic Waters
Crimson Abstraction
Profile
Single Minded
Blue
Abstract Face I
Abstract Face II
Disappearing Act
Red Dye No. 5
Reflection
Omen
Fair Weather Friend
Dancing With Butterflies
Gallery
Interview with Charlotte Foust
Poetry
Chris Tysh - dogma dogs
Willis Barnstone - Night of No Number
Willis Barnstone - Fire & Verse
Amittai Aviram - Programmer's Domestic Partner, Music ...
Alan Shapiro - The Old Man
Alan Shapiro - If I Only Knew Then
Amittai Aviram - Rainbow Over Bamberg
Thomas Anthony - Sitting With Questions
Fiction
David Abrams - Numb
Matthew Mazer - A Clear Look
James Sallis - Bleak Bay
Non-Fiction
Laurie Frankel - Connections
ISSUE THREE: Apr-Jun (01)
Sharon Olds (Featured Writer)
Satan Says (from
Satan Says
, 1980)
What if God (from
The Gold Cell
, 1987)
Possessed (from
The Dead and the Living
, 1984)
Waste Sonata (from
The Father
, 1992)
The Planned Child (from
The Wellspring
, 1996)
To One Who Wrote Me, "I, Too, Am an Incest Survivor" (new)
The Death of St. Peter on the Late Show (new)
The Talkers (from
Blood, Tin, Straw
, 1999)
Interview with Sharon Olds
Ginger Wagoner (Featured Artist)
Bless The Children 1
Bless The Children 2
Bless The Children 3
Bless The Children 4
Bless The Children 5
Bless The Children 6
Bless The Children 7
Bless The Children 8
Placement Center 1
Placement Center 2
Placement Center 3
Placement Center 4
Placement Center 5
Placement Center 6
Placement Center 7
Placement Center 8
Interview with Ginger Wagoner
Poetry
David Starkey - Still Life
William Borden - Dead Ends
Chocolate Waters - Pushing Fifty
Christopher Macli - Da Da Da
Chocolate Waters - Not Even Death Moves Me
Sarah Lindsay - Mound Digger
James Longenbach - Sleepless Night
Laurie Kuntz - The Anniversary
James Longenbach - Overhead
Barry Spacks - Making Songs
Sarah Lindsay - Slow Butterflies in the Luminous Field
Fiction
Dan Keohane - The Storm of Generations
Non-Fiction
Chris Saade - Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
Chris Saade - The Importance of Anxiety
ISSUE FOUR: Jun-Aug (01)
Michael McClure (Featured Writer)
Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Two)
Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Three)
Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Four)
Zazen #1
Zazen #2
Zazen #3
Zazen #4
Zazen #5
Zazen #6
Zazen #7
Zazen #8
Zazen #9
Interview with Michael McClure
James Michalopoulos (F. Artist)
2 Tone
Auto Neurve
Buds Bias
By Georges
Cryptic
Dontfencemein
Heart Right Out of Sight
Last Find
Luxotta
Puntuality
Slam Fam
Trois Trees
Unfound
Untitled
Poetry
J.P. Dancing Bear - The Lonelier Moon
Frank Anthony - Four BRIK Poems
Mark Budman - Dear Nicholas
Andrena Zawinski - I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
Janet Buck - The Teapoy
John G. Nettles - Tango Sinistre
Kathryn T.S. Bass - Small Art in Artichoke
C. J. Sage - When We Played The Song of Eros
Fiction
Steve Vance - The Band That Played Emotions
ISSUE FIVE: Aug-Oct (01)
Willis Barnstone (Featured Writer)
And Through Our Closed Eyelids We Are Light: Spiritual Way...
Interview with Willis Barnstone
GAK (Featured Artist)
4X4 Cover
Anthrax Ripple
Bite The Bullet 2
Blast Zone
Compass Rose 2
Darker Dawning
Gang Banger
Their Reverant Mother Vindictus
Toilet Boys
Vortex Phoenix 2
Poetry
Jack Fisher - Downstream Dreams
Barbara Hendryson - The Wedding
Austin Alexis - Powwow
Amy Schrader - Eve Avoids the Work
Walt McDonald - For Friends Missing in Action
Corrine De Winter - The End of Desire
Gary Earl Ross - Transparencies
Katy Whittingham - The Bird
Priscilla Atkins - The Woman at the Bel Air Sands
Corrine De Winter - Idle Fire
Fiction
Jay Caselberg - Photosynthesis
Michael Jasper - What Was Left Standing
Non-Fiction
Fred D. White - On the Collision of Worlds
ISSUE SIX: Oct-Dec (01)
Interview with Stanley Kunitz
September 11, 2001 (Photography & Artwork)
Jay Boucher/WTC 2
Jay Boucher/WTC 3
Jay Boucher/WTC 5
Jay Boucher/WTC 11
Jay Boucher/WTC 20
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 1
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 2
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 3
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 4
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 5
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 6
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 7
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 8
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 9
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 10
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 11
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 12
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 13
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 14
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 15
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 16
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 17
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 18
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 19
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 20
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 21
Lew Hirschberg/Photo 22
Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapse
Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 1
Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Towers After Crash, Before Collapse
Sara K. Schwittek/Assist Heroes
Sara K. Schwittek/Blood Drive
Sara K. Schwittek/Bridge Smoke
Sara K. Schwittek/Bus
Sara K. Schwittek/Candle 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 3
Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 4
Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 6
Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 7
Sara K. Schwittek/Daisies
Sara K. Schwittek/Evening 1
Sara K. Schwittek/Explosion 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Firehouse
Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapses
Sara K. Schwittek/Flag
Sara K. Schwittek/Flag Promenade
Sara K. Schwittek/Flowers 1
Sara K. Schwittek/Gerber 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Interview
Sara K. Schwittek/Liberty
Sara K. Schwittek/Michael
Sara K. Schwittek/Missing
Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 1
Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Phone Blood
Sara K. Schwittek/Police 2
Sara K. Schwittek/Read God's Word
Sara K. Schwittek/Rescue Lights 3
Sara K. Schwittek/Triage
Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 1
Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 2
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 1
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 10
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 11
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 12
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 2
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 3
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 4
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 5
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 6
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 7
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 8
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 9
September 11, 2001 (Writings)
Monica J. O'Rourke/Lest We Forget
Sharon Esther Lampert/Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand ...
Richard Mayer/9/11/01
B.J. Smith/An American
Michael O'McCarthy/An American Apocalypse
Cathy McArthur/Paint Over This Poem
Tammy A. Callahan-Callanan/The Eagle Will Soar Again
Janet Buck/Two Poems
Chris Saade/An Existential Reflection On The Latest Tragic...
Karl W. Bokelmann/What Was I Doing?
Judith Laura/Air Cover Over DC
Joel Young/Three Poems
Mary Jane Beaufrand/Other Abnormalities
Elizabeth Lowry/The Tower People
Barbara Hendryson/Take Your Balmy Afternoons
Alyssa Lappen/Paper, Smoke, and Ash
Kristyn Y. Reid/Unholy Terror
Rochelle Ratner/Dear Diary
Marisa Rosenfeld/Today
Virginia Boshears/The Red, White, and Bruised
Christina Sng/Postwar
Paul Kloppenborg/Twist of Steel (09-09-01)
Wendy Carlisle/American Air
Larry Winters/Two Writings
Charlotte Jones/911
Margaret Price/Revenge
Greg Braquet/Three Poems
Jeremy Schultz/Two Writings
Jude Rittenhouse/Letter from Planet Earth, September 2001
Rochelle Mass/Four Writings
Lenore Weiss/Two Poems
Howard Camner/Infamy
Margaret Dornaus/The Mourning After
Stephanie Nikolopoulos/Free and Brave
J. Marcus Weekley/A Haiku Sequence
Gretchen L. Jameson/Response to The World Trade Center Tra...
Mary Dezember/Frozen Music
Annette Marie Hyder/Five Poems
Melissa Lamberton/Three Poems
Margaret Ellis Hill/Eruption
Vicki Hudspith/Four Poems
Barry Sherman/Extraordinary Times Inspire Extraordinary Me...
Pam Chillemi-Yeager/A Poem
Roy L. Post/Six Poems
Susan K. Droney/Terror
Austin Alexis/Three Poems
Reva Sharon/From Jerusalem to America
Alan Gann/Two Poems
Helen Dixon/The Enemy
Terry Lowenstein/Four Poems
Phyllis Jean Green/Our Sales Staff Is Already On It
Dorothy Ryan/Meditation on Loss
The Intentional Living Institute/An Expression of Solidari...
Tom Anthony/September 12 Writing
Frank Anthony/Four Poems
Mark Siegel/Bad Week
Megan Breiseth/I Do Not Think We Choose
Marcia A. Borell/A Short Piece
Karin Beuerlein/No Soot Carries Here
Cristina Lopez/Eyes Half-Opened
Tamara Kaye Sellman/Three Poems
Korkut Onaran/Two Poems
Miki Magyar/11 September, 2001
Anika Gupta/Martyr's Shadow
Joan Payne Kincaid/Six Poems
Karen A. Romanko/Two Poems
Beth Boettcher/Residual Haunting
Corrine De Winter/Two Poems
John G. Nettles/Thinking with the Wrong Hemisphere
Elizabeth Kerlikowske/Coffee Cake
Lyndall Hare/Inauguration: September 11, 2001
Margaret A. Robinson/9.11.01
Jean Kiser/This Is Not Hollywood
Michael Christen Smith/Everywhere They Are Asking
Dana Imperatore/The Flight Heard Around The World
Margaret M. Smith/Towers
Gregory Phillips/The Crash
Everette Bell/9/11/01
Cara Bahir/Twins
Amber Harlow/Evil's Identity
Deborah P. Kolodji/Wake-Up Call
Juanita Torrence-Thompson/Three Writings
Ken Whitmore/Two Poems
Lyn Neil/9/11/01
Amy Harke-Moore/Suicide Bombings, Day Two
Jamie Proctor/Icarus: 9/11/01
Pat Poggi/Going Home
James H. Albury, Jr./Awakening the Slumbering Giant
Leanna Bartram/We Crumble (New York)
Stephen D. Rogers/Firefighter Death
Shelia M. Goss/Times of War
Deborah Miller Rothschild/Mr. Yamamoto's Painting
Tony Leather/Images of Pain
Farida Mihoub/False Ambitions
Michael Guinn/Freedom Rings
Robert Bohm/Beyond the Sentimental to the Real
Scott Lindberg/Events of September 11, 2001
S.J. Thonn/We Are Humans
Christine G. Richardson/Prophetic Footnote
Timothy C. Davis/How To Spot a True Believer
Matthew Pasca/The Closing of a Nation
Poetry
Meredith Stricker - Reading the Blank Spaces
Suzanne Frischkorn - Limited Range of Motion
Karen White - Evening at Evangelo's
Tony Barnstone - Flight of the Gimps
John Grey - The Sides in This Relationship
Frank Van Zant - The Slingshot and the Sweetgum Tree
Charles Fishman - Learning to Dance, 1956
Bruce Boston - Shells: The Next Generation
Carly Svamvour - Foxes
Michele F. Cooper - Entrail #10
Martina Newberry - Spreading Sand in Abdullah's Garden
Joan Payne Kincaid - Natives Used to Call Them Ghosts
Jacqueline Seewald - On The Nature of Things
Fiction
Gilbert Allen - Friends With Porsches
Non-Fiction
Kermit Seigle - Coffee
ISSUE SEVEN: Dec (01)-Feb (02)
Fred Chappell (Featured Writer)
The Persistence of Origin
A World of Difference
Universe Exhibit
Nocturne
Aubade
Interview with Fred Chappell
Francis Eck (Featured Artist)
Travel with The Wind
Unknown Treasures
Looking for Absolute
Glacier Vatnajokull
Provence
Icebergs - Iceland
Iceland
Boreal Spring - Iceland
Gold of Harvest Time
The Perseides
America Always
A Tragic Day
Poetry
Eugene Gloria - Reading Langston Hughes
C.J. Sage - Narcosis Song
Eva Yaa Asantewaa - sacrament
Kathleen Dale - Morning Glory
Lois Marie Harrod - Lucky Seven
Phyllis Jean Green - Aliases Tackle Philosophy 101
Jen Cullerton Johnson- Under O'Malley's Roof
Pam Bernard - Covenant
Andrena Zawinski - Writing Lessons
Ed Lynskey - Another Song for Clarissa
Christopher Locke - North Star
Chocolate Waters - Knocking Around Hell's Kitchen
Fiction
Tod Goldberg - The Distance Between Us
Non-Fiction
Nate Liederbach - Back in Nelson's Bathroom
ISSUE EIGHT: Feb-Apr (02)
Nikki Giovanni (Featured Writer)
Nikki-Rosa (from
Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgeme...
Ego Tripping (from
Re: Creation
, 1970)
[Untitled] (from
My House
, 1973)
Night (from
The Women and the Men
, 1975)
Woman (from
Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day
, 1978)
Sky Diving (from
Those Who Ride the Night Winds
, 19...
Desperate Acts (new)
A community of clouds (new)
Interview with Nikki Giovanni
Kathleen Ward (Featured Artist)
Aphrodite-Girl On The Beach
Flight Over Salem
July Sixteenth
The Music Lover
Point Counterpoint
Salem Dawn
Sheherazade
The Hotel Room
The Music Lover
Rose Tattoo
Thief of Hearts
East of Eden
Dark Wing
Poetry
Ward Kelley - Clear Knowledge
Robert Lietz - Keeping Touch #3
Rochelle Mass - Baptism Doesn't Happen When You're...
Rayn Roberts - Letter to a Longtime Companion
Janet Buck - The Sketch
Ruth Daigon - Ghost Music
Sharon Shahan - In Some Countries It Is Illegal to Call Th...
Radu Andriescu - Tudor (translated from the Romanian by Ad...
Suzanne Burns - Hysteria
Eric Bliman - Another Reason I Won't
matt robinson - beer & the lazarus eye
James Owens - The Way Things End
Fiction
Arthur Nersesian - Excerpt from
Suicide Casanova
Non-Fiction
Michael Gary Naber - The Report Card
ISSUE NINE: Apr-Jun (02)
Thomas Lux (Featured Writer)
Tactile (from a chapbook,
Merry Bones
; fameorshame ...
Reject What Confuses You (from a chapbook,
Merry Bones<...
Thus, He Spoke His Quietus, (from a chapbook,
Merry...
The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association (from a b...
Rather (appeared previously in
The Greensboro Review
National Impalement Statistics (new)
Dogsbody (new)
Interview with Thomas Lux
Tantra Bensko (Featured Artist)
Reality Is A Conspiracy
White Grove
Bright Playa
Approach
Absolute
Scene From A Poem
Bestiary Of Truth
Prepared By Quantum Dreams
Rose And Miracles
Subtle Bodies
Angles Of Desire
Steps Leading To An Enigma Which Could Also Be A Coffin
They Speak But Their Words Are Guardians
These Times End
In The Blue Of The Woods
Poetry
Susan Terris - Michael Mazur: Ice Glen, 1993
Martina Newberry - Dead Poet's Memorial
Charles Fishman - Wheeler Avenue
Suzanne Frischkorn - Panther & Bathing Suit
Sheila K. Smith - Langston's Tune
Richard Jordan - To the Schoolgirl On the Amusement Ride
Jessica Smucker Falcon - The Rivers Turned to Blood
Susan Ludvigson - When the Flag Goes Up
Bruce Boston - Hypertexts
Barbara Hendryson - Wicked Grace
Carol Carpenter - Betrayal
Susan Ludvigson - Amnesia
Corrine De Winter - Swallowing Light
Carolyn Adams - Flowers
Fiction
Mike Golden - Experience The Cheap Thrill of Tibet (Excerp...
Non-Fiction
Jennifer M. Wilson - Gray Matter
ISSUE TEN: Jun-Aug (02)
Gary Soto (Featured Writer)
Gil Mendez & the Metaphysics of a Blimp
Interview with Gary Soto
The Bogside Artists (F. Artist)
The Work
Red Girl bw
Banners Child
2
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239
5
Bernadette, Battle of the Bogside Mural
Bloody Sunday Protest (Puppets)
4
Bloody Sunday Commemoration Mural
Petrol Bomber
Poetry
Kathryn T.S. Bass - The Headaches (After Ashbury)
Rhonda J. Nelson - Criminal
Liam McKee - Suite Paraclete
Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein - Loving Ghazal
Donald Levering - Boy -- Reprise
Sonia Pereira - The Bath
Toni La Ree Bennett - You'll Kick a Flattened Can
J.P. Dancing Bear - Fertile Crescent
Khadijah Queen - Ghazal for My Ancestors
Sandra Kohler - The New Regime
C.E. Chaffin - Mall Demolition
Simon Perchik - *
William Ford - The Great Yellowstone Fire, 1988
Karen A. Romanko - Equations in Time
Walter Bargen - Conversation
Fiction
Tod Goldberg - Desert Life
Non-Fiction
Rochelle Mass - At the Edge
ISSUE ELEVEN: Aug-Oct (02)
Interview with Octavia Butler
Interview with Tantra Bensko
Bruce Boston (Featured Writer)
Like an Addict Glowing (new)
The Slums of Atlantis (new)
Blood-Simple as a Thorn (new)
The City and The Stars (new)
Interstellar Tract (from
Poly
; Ocean View Books, 19...
In Far Pale Clarity (appeared as a limited edition broadsi...
Interview with Bruce Boston
Mike Bohatch (Featured Artist)
Contorted
Play Things of the Damned
Penitence
A Fatal Revelation
Spirit of Progress
Displaced Paranoia
Transformed
Revenant Martyrdom
Laurie A. Carlson (Featured Artist)
Protean Dawn: Legendary Arts & Dreams of Fusion
Spume on a Quantum Shore
Faie, Scientist
Faery Waterfall
Return of the Mother of the Sun and Stars
April Lee (Featured Artist)
Phoenix Angel
Raven Drow
The Juggler
Sunset Guardian
Lotus Petal
Sentinel
Intuition
Nestlings
Shiba Tsukune
Slawek Wojtowicz (Featured Artist)
Lost Puppy
Baby Boomers
Dry Earth
Wreck
Vapor Queen
Sunny Delight
WIR
Silent Cry
Cybercity
Traveling City
Poetry
Erin Elizabeth - Crossing the Susquehanna
Martina Newberry - Secret History
Janet Buck - Thanatopsis
Eva Yaa Asantewaa - every body dreams every night
Suzanne Burns - A Jury Member Dreams of Taking the Manson ...
Adam Clay - Mind of Heaven
Linda Alexander - After War, We Retreat to Shore
Marian Kaplun Shapiro - In The Season of Miracles
Lucy A.E. Ward - Bodies at Hotel Sitsobek
Nanette Rayman - How She Died
Bill Yake - Deadhorse Flats
Fiction
Joseph Green - New World in the Morning
Jennifer Barlow - Pygmalion's Daughter
Non-Fiction
Christine Hale - The Bird, the Turnip, and Me
ISSUE TWELVE: Oct-Dec (02)
Maxine Kumin (Featured Writer)
Grace
Strut
The Food Chain
Going to Jerusalem
The Lovers Leave by Separate Planes
Interview with Maxine Kumin
Kelly Billette (Featured Artist)
Radium
Primative Thought
Edge
Allegory
Superstitious Reality
Subtrahend
Wallow
Meaning and Discontent
Surface Gliders
Secret Saints
Shelley Eichholz (Featured Artist)
Anasazi
Haunt
Sober
The Nursery
While It Sleeps
Gemini
Torn
Shelley Eichholz and Craig Morey/Peril
Skin Depth
The Hive
Poetry
Barbara Hendryson - The Wounding
Wesley Biddy - Shakespeare's Sister
Steve Mueske - An Apologetic
Sheila Black - Playing Dead
Charles Fishman - Jake, Sleeping
Susan Wheeler - In Your House, the Platitudes
Brandy Sejeck - The Voyage
Corrine De Winter - Close to Holiness
Richard C. Williams - The Sun Dodger
Michelle Gibson - The Rim of a Canyon
Jnana Hodson - Blue Rock LXXII, LXXIII
Michael Leary - Saguaro
Fiction
Michele Battiste - Penelope's Cousin
Non-Fiction
Richard Simonelli - Reflections on September 11
ISSUE THIRTEEN: Dec (02)-Feb (03)
Editor's Introduction
Stuart Dybek - Featured Writer
I Sailed With Magellan
Interview with Stuart Dybek
Sharon Gee - Featured Artist
Dancing Daffodils
A Moment in Time
Amantia
Discovery
Kumaro
Land of Hope
Mahala
White Sands
Blue Deep
Crimson Deep
Inner Vision
The Knowing
Dancing in the Moonlight
Desert Morning
Guitar Man
Last Crusade
Poetry
Irene Livingston - Still Here
Jackie Bartley - Two Portraits with Sushi and Light Bulb
Erik Vatne - Poem 112
Marge Simon - Primal Menagerie
Sandra Kohler - Sojourn
Ouyang Xiu (translated from the Chinese by David Lunde) - ...
Suzanne Frischkorn - Jim Sings the Blues
Carol Carpenter - Continuing View
Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
Nancy A. Henry - On the Edge of the Village
Joanna Catherine Scott - Typhoon's Approach, Manila
Janice Moore Fuller - Like the Call of an Endangered Bird
Florence Weinberger - Marrowbones
Christine Boyka Kluge - One Claw into the Dream
Fiction
Rachel Dacus - Other Fathers
Danny Blexford - Hunter Ray's Elephants
Non-Fiction
Ellin Ronee Pollachek - Married Men
ISSUE FOURTEEN: Feb-Apr (03)
Editor's Introduction
Robert Mezey - Featured Writer
Touch It (from
White Bloss
oms
)
How Much Longer? (from
The
Door Standing Open
To Be a Giant (from
Small Song
)
The Grave (from
Glosses and Variations
)
The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: A Cento (from ...
Hardy (from
Evening Wind and Other Poems
)
Tea Dance at the Nautilus Hotel (1925) (from
Evenin...
VARIATION ON A THEME (from
Collected Poems 1952-199...
For Edgar Bowers (new)
A Sleeper in the Valley (new)
Long Lines, Beginning with a Line Spoken in a Dream (new)
Interview with Robert Mezey
David Alan Goldberg - Feat. Artist
Dream Nude
La Strada
Happy Man
Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face
Anita Loos: Loos as a Goose
Billie Holliday
Rimshot and Corkscrew: Bitching and Moaning
Don DeLeaumont
Alice Takes Her First Bus Trip
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Vanity Fair, 1925
Shake It, Girl
Whadizzit?
Poetry
Bruce Boston - Two Nightstands Attacking a Cello
Lucy A. E. Ward - Subject: File Classified
Tobias Seamon - Exeunt the Heroes
Bernadette Geyer - The Naming of Bones
Stephen Newton - we went away from the things we knew
Vicki Hudspith - Were We Drowning?
Sarah Fay - End November
Willis Barnstone - Full Moon Over a Two-Note Man
Gilbert Allen - Outlook for Temporal Creatures Bleak
Richard Sassoon - Reflections on Alchemy (Part 1)
Michael Salcman - Looking at Kline
Michael Spring - Dendrocalamus Asper
Fiction
Alexandria Smith - Petit Mort
Non-Fiction
Lauren R. Mathews - A Woman's Wall
ISSUE FIFTEEN: Apr-Jun (03)
Editor's Introduction
W.S. Merwin - Featured Writer
Anabasis (I) (from
A Mask for Janus
)
The Drunk in the Furnace (from
The Drunk in the Fur...
Is That What You Are (from
The Lice
)
Plane (from
The Carrier of Ladders
)
Inauguration (from
The River Sound
)
Star (from
The Pupil
)
To the Coming Winter (new poem)
Interview with W.S. Merwin
E. W. Lane - Featured Artist
73 Tears
The Grove
Chakra Figures
By My Calculations
Horses on Yellow
Written on the Body
House with Yellow Door
The Corridor
Past Life
Red Jack
It's a Game
King and Queen
On Target
Alone
Poetry
Charles Fishman - A Field in Virginia
Donald Levering - The Night the Millennium Changed,
kris t kahn - The Bacchante
Rochelle Mass - They Said He Was Living With #4
Amy Small-McKinney - Body of Surrender
Carol Parris Krauss - La Catrina; Puerta del Diablo
Chanda Wakefield - Fusion
Alain Sherter - Strange Teacher
John Capista - Fleur du Mal
Sheila Squillante - Hard Parting
J.T. Ledbetter - In Mid-Winter
Elisha Porat - Birds of Pain (Translated from the Hebrew b...
Alan Catlin - night trains: an elegy
Janet Buck - Double Vision
Andrew Boobier - Différance
Fiction
Suzanne Burns - Theft Among Strangers
ISSUE SIXTEEN: Jun-Aug (03)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Ai
Womanhood
Manhood
Motherhood
Interview with Ai
Featured Artists
Barbara Rachko/He Just Stood There Grinning
Barbara Rachko/He Was So In Need of Botany
Barbara Rachko/In Reality the Frogs Were Men
Barbara Rachko/Scene Seven: Living Room
Deb Ramsay/River Began to Melt
Deb Ramsay/Hold the Place
Deb Ramsay/Forget and Then Remember
Deb Ramsay/Sprinkling of Immortality
Deb Ramsay/Ability to React
Anne Stickel/Door #6
Anne Stickel/Door #7
Anne Stickel/Door #8
Anne Stickel/Door #9
Brian Zegeer/Animus 2
Brian Zegeer/Harvest
Brian Zegeer/PYT
Poetry
Khadijah Queen - Because there are no lakes,
Christa Kongslie - At the Truckstop
Theresa Boyar - Apocalypse Documentaries
Jeffrey Alfier - Aguila, Arizona
C.E. Chaffin - Mr. Z Goes Fishing
Marge Simon - Language of Scorpions
Michael Ladanyi - Humming Riddles
Walter Bargen - Scorched
Polly Weiss - 7 Sonnets for 7 Brides
Clayton A. Couch - state holiday blues
Barbara Hendryson - To Show Me the World
Phyllis Jean Green - Pot Calls Kettle
Bill Yake - Watching for Signs
Kristy Bowen - Cassandra
David Lunde - The Social Fabric
Robert Edward Levin - My Last Place
Donora Hillard - Brothers
Jason Heroux - Summer
Corrine De Winter - The Virgin in the Alcove
Reviews
Charles Fishman's
Time Travel Reports
...rev...
Alan Shapiro's
Song and Dance
...reviewed by...
ISSUE SEVENTEEN: Aug-Oct (03)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Philip Levine
Zero for Conduct (first appeared in
The Forward
)
Shadow Boxing (first appeared in
First of the Month
...
Above the Angels (alternate version first appeared in
P...
Godspell (new)
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge (new)
Interview with Philip Levine
Featured Artist - Ula Einstein
altering landscape
swimming in the depths
his memory in my head
evolutionary tension
addressing the past
restoration
untitled #11
emerging and receding
late to blossom
untitled #12
awakening
Poetry
Lyn Lifshin - Past the Abandoned Railroad
Annalynn Hammond - I Beg You
Michael Johnson - Bread of Vengeance
Donna Spector - Our Old Hillegass House
Peggy Ann Tartt - Sin Eater
Richard Newman - Commerce
Candy M. Gourlay - Emotion Jars
Lyn Lifshin - Hardly Anyone in My Family Could Sew
Ace Boggess - Do You Want the Usual
Irene Livingston - Moisty Green Summer of 1950
C.J. Sage - For Food
Greg Braquet - Mardi Gras Indian
Collin Kelley - Self
Ahn Behrens - New York Fever
Fiction
Michele Battiste - A Delicate Toxicity
Reviews
Sarah Lindsay's
Mount Clutter
...reviewed by Wil...
kris t kahn's
arguing with the troubadour
.....
ISSUE EIGHTEEN: Oct-Dec (03)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Ruth Stone
Almost the Same
Cause and Effect
Chasuble Plausible
Border
Interview with Ruth Stone
In the Next Galaxy
...reviewed by Lindsay Penelope S...
Featured Artist - Khalid Al-Tahmazi
Man & Woman, II
Five Sisters
Blue Sky
Is It Still There?
Diary of the Diviners
Winter Festival
Magic Space
The Red Bird
Conversation
Sweet & Love
The Dreamer
Visualizing Montreal
Poetry
Charles Fishman - At the Levittown Pool, 1952
Hezy Leskly - Remains (translated from the Hebrew by Gilad...
Ryan Masters - In Freefall
Carly Svamvour - Return Fire from the Cello
Donald Levering - The King of Coal Carnival
Carol Carpenter - From My Watchtower in the National Fores...
Arlene Ang - Decline of the Victorian Period
Carrie Etter - Not Wings
Chocolate Waters - Spelling Bee (a performance poem)
Andrea Defoe - Gallery
William Neumire - Odysseus
David Cazden - Poison Ivy
Beth Partin - Five Dreams of Revenge
Estelle Villas - Mercy
Reviews
Janet Buck's
Tickets to a Closing Play
...review...
Michael Spring's
blue crow
...reviewed by Te...
ISSUE NINETEEN: Dec (03)-Feb (04)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Alan Dugan
From
Poems
: "This Morning Here"
From
Poems Two
: "From Rome. For More Public Fou...
From
Poems Three
: "On Zero"
From
Poems Four
: "Saint Monday"
From
Poems Five
: "Summer Gale"
From
Poems Six
: "Love and Money"
From
Poems Seven
:
"On Not Working and Then ...
Non-Fiction
Daniel James Wood...Alan Dugan,
Poems Seven
William Neumire...Alan Dugan: the naked truth
Lindsay Sloan...Untitled: A Retrospective Look at the Life...
Featured Artists -
Three Lowe Gallery Artists
Atlanta Gallery #1
Atlanta Gallery #2
Atlanta Gallery #3
Atlanta Gallery #4
Santa Monica Gallery #1
Santa Monica Gallery #2
Santa Monica Gallery #3
Santa Monica Gallery #4
Maggie Hasbrouck - Birdcage
Harry Paul Ally - Cain and Abel
Lita Cabellut - El Nino
Maggie Hasbrouck - Queen
Harry Paul Ally - Eunuch
Lita Cabellut - Los Ombros
Maggie Hasbrouck - Yellow Dress
Harry Paul Ally - Icarus
Lita Cabellut - Paysajf
Maggie Hasbrouck - Sailboat
Harry Paul Ally - Pieta
Lita Cabellut - Trashemante
Maggie Hasbrouck - Violin
Harry Paul Ally - Standing Figure with Stick #3
Lita Cabellut - Triptico
Fiction
Nathan Leslie - The Cathari
Poetry
Ruth Daigon - Invocation
Janet Buck - The Last Tango Is Here
Ben Passikoff - Arrangement in Black
Susan Terris - Two-week Suitors
Donna Spector - A Devil's Bargain
Barry Spacks - Drawn to the Rhythms of the Floating World
Rochelle Ratner - Purim 2003, The Day After Bush Gives Sad...
Simon Perchik - *
K. A. McGowan - Don't Ask
Sonia Pereira - On Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
Rane Arroyo - Radio Evangelist
Bruce Boston - Severed Yellow Children
Alan Catlin - Panopticon
Tammy Armstrong - Bugbears
Molly Herrick - Poem (backwash one)
Reviews
Sandra Kohler's
The Ceremonies of Longing
...rev...
Rochelle Mass's
The Startled Land
...reviewe...
Collin Kelley's
Better to Travel
...reviewed...
Juanita Torrence Thompson's
Celebrating a Tapes...
Michael Ladanyi's
Spelling Crows of Winter
....
ISSUE TWENTY: Feb-Apr (04)
Introduction
Poetry
Willis Barnstone - Night Café
C.E. Laine - A Meadow on Change
Michael Johnson - Waterwalker
Estelle Villas - Sparrow
Sandra Kohler - Scenarios for a Deathbed
Willis Barnstone - Café Zero
Arlene Ang - Tea with Miss Marple
Michael Paul Ladanyi - Stretched into Disappearance
Rachel Dacus - War News
Charles Fishman - A Summer Night
Kristy Bowen - Sometimes, Mary
Steven Brodsky - Riverbed
J.D. Smith - Epilogue
Angela O'Donnell - Lies
Richard Newman - The Silence of Men
Art
Charlotte Foust - Ascension I
Charlotte Foust - Ascension II
Charlotte Foust - Time Loop I
Charlotte Foust - Time Loop II
Aja- The Enthusiastic Response to a Dull Question
Aja - Tigerlillies
Aja - Babylon
Aja - Mardi Gras
Aja - Monsoon
Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: XII
Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: IV
Julio Mateo - The Rhapsodies: V
Julio Mateo - The Birth of Venus, XVII
Non-Fiction
Tamara Shaffer - Per Chance to Dream
Reviews
Stuart Dybek's
I Sailed with Magellan
...reviewe...
Bruce Boston's
Pitchblende
...reviewed by Da...
Michelle Cameron's
In the Shadow of the Globe
J. Timothy Lovelace's
The Artistry and Traditio...
Another South: Experimental Writing in the South
Barbara Hendryson's
Luminosity
...reviewed b...
ISSUE TWENTY-ONE: Apr-Jun (04)
Introduction
Poetry
David Mills - Fool's Gold
Andrea Defoe - It Has a Red Head
Andrew Boobier - Imagining America
Carolyn Howard-Johnson - Olvera Street Tutorial
Kathryn Butler - Drown
Pat Hegnauer - Elegant Shambles
Jill Van Epps - Requiem
Andrea Defoe - If Jesus Were Navajo
C.E. Chaffin - Be Still
Johnson Cheu - Apricots
Marge Simon - The Seasons of Death
Barbara Hendryson - Stars
Peg Duthie -
Da Capo Senza Fine
Ava Leavell Haymon - The Gold Underpainting Is a Given
Wang Yun - Country Scene (translated from the Chinese by D...
Art
Andrey Doukhan - Alter Ego
Andrey Doukhan - Moon Lovers
Andrey Doukhan - Claustrophobia
Andrey Doukhan - Protect Me From What I Want
Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #1
Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #2
Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #3
Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #4
Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #5
Susan Graves - Nebulous Clouds
Susan Graves - Ripples
Susan Graves - Volcanic Smoke
Valentin Panaitof - Morning of Chimeras
Valentin Panaitof - Thirst
Valentin Panaitof - Isaac
Fiction
Lisa Polisar - January Reckless
Reviews
Cecilia Woloch's
Late
...reviewed by William Neu...
Nathan Leslie's
A Cold Glass of Milk
...revi...
Amy Small-McKinney's
Body of Surrender
...re...
Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer's
Anti...
American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric M...
ISSUE TWENTY-TWO: Jun-Aug (04)
Editor's Introduction
Poetry
Susan Culver - And Then, She Opens Her Eyes
Leslie Goerner - Medicine Man
Terri Brown-Davidson - The Neighbor's Drawing
kris t kahn - Sappho's Shadow
Catherynne M. Valente -
Suzuri
Irene Livingston - Gloom Goon
Eric Paul Shaffer - Black Light
Tobias Seamon - The Contract
Liz Dolan - Picking Up Steam
Scott T. Summers - Twin
Joanna Catherine Scott - Adoption Anniversary
Carol Carpenter - The Puzzler
Janet Buck - Carrots in Dirt
Fiction
Nathan Leslie - Introduction to the Fiction Section
John Vanderslice - A Desert Has No Exits
Katherine Olga Huether - Wise Woman
Ellen Birkett Morris - Lost Girls
Judith Cox - Snow on Lambs
Interviews
Interview with Robert Creeley
Interview with Mitzi Szereto
Featured Artist - Lynne Taetzsch
Eye on the Dawn
Tokyo Fantasy
Feathered Nest
Categorical
Looney Tunes
Night Songs
Ghost Story
Talk to Me Now
In the Gloaming
Hidden Grace
Reviews
Charles Fishman's
Country of Memory
...reviewed ...
Alan Catlin's
The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre...
Barbara F. Lefcowitz's
Photo, Bomb, Red Chair
Walter Bargen's
The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences...
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.'s
You Should Get That Loo...
ISSUE TWENTY-THREE: Aug-Oct (04)
Editor's Introduction
Poetry
Ruth Daigon - A Watch That Waits
Diana Pinckney - The Artist Speaks to Her Unborn Paintings
John O'Dell - What Fish Think
Bonnie J. Morris - The Trigger Fish
Michael Johnson - The Story of Lightning
Phillip Sterling - Li Po in America
Nancy Kenney Connolly - Monologue for a Massage
Rosemary Clark - Waltz
Thomas Dorsett - Venus and Adonis
Fiction
R.T. Smith - Woodwork: How the Rustic Art Placation Ended ...
Courtney Zoffness - Lump Sum: A Chinese Dinner Divided
Kathryn Kulpa - Palm Sunday
Tim Myers - That Night
Loren Jenks - The View from the Throne
Featured Artist - Eduardo Recife
lost paradise
caution
happier
expo arte digital
the boy
what a beautiful world
loneliness
change yourself
build size fast
superego
everything is connected to each other
we're trapped
welcome
Book Reviews
Bill Yake's
This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain: P...
Suzanne Frischkorn's
Red Paper Flower
...rev...
New Stories from the South: Th
e Year’s Best<...
David Chorlton's
Return to Waking Life
...re...
Erin Murphy's
Science of Desire
...reviewed ...
THE POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY
Editor's Introduction
Non-Fiction
Richard Sassoon - I Will Vote
Michael O'McCarthy - How Many Male Gods in One Heaven?
C.E. Chaffin - On the Quadrennial Madness of America the P...
A Letter from John Kerry
Mindy Farabee - Romanian Spring
Robert Klein Engler - Ground Zero
C.S. McKinstry - Heinz: Made in Mexico
Daniela Gioseffi - There Is Such a Thing as U.S. Capitalis...
Dawne E. Bost - How a Lifelong Socialist Became a Republic...
Jimmy Hall - Kirsten Powers Is Typical Of Her Party
Alex Migliore - Comatosed Recruit Blues
Megan Doney - An Essay
Sandra L. Ceren - Your Health Care Is At Risk
Brett Alan Sanders - On the Pragmatics of Liberalism
Bill Sander - A World Pledge
Gerard Meister - Pointe of View
Jimmy Hall - What We Learned About Kerry From Kerry
Melisande Luna - Generation GOP
William Starr Moake - I'm Not Voting
Avery Elzmyth - Bush or Kerry? Eh, I'll Pass
Bernard Miller - That Dirty L Word
Cleatus Rattan - Assumptions to Ponder, or Fahrenheit 2004
Rachel Johnson - Is Your Muse Missing?
Don Monkerud - Republican Women to Polish Their Image
Craig Etchison & Tom Robertson - Learning from Lance
Kelly Ann Malone - Today's Soldiers, Today's Stars
Ed Horne - Two Short Pieces
Steve Kowit - The Way The World Is Now
Kelvin Bueckert - A Conspiracy Of Hope?
Rodney R. Jones - Bracing for Martial Law
Renate G. Justin - Voting
Bob Mustin - What Terrorism Should Be Teaching Us
Renee Mumford - Election Time
Dennis Fox - Jerusalem Again: A Personal Political Journey
Jerome Richard - The Price Is Wrong
Amy Winklett - America: Love It or Leave It
Michael Levy - What Waits Just Around The Election Corner
Stewart Brodian - Why Concern Over Israel
James Palombo -
Mary Grabar - Smokestacks
Carmen A. Fiore - Is Arrogant Conceit a Prerequisite for t...
Stephen Paske - What's My Vote Really Worth
Patricia F. Dascoli - Hair Factor
Gene Tanta -
Felicia Parsons - A Case Against Culture
Eli Hastings - Coming Away
Leonard Levy - Noodling with Ideas
Susan Dorman - Beyond Gunpowder: A Rational Perspective on...
Seshu Chamarty -
Stephanie Nolasco - Patriot Act Report Outline
Joe Rector -
Rose Marie Buccheri - Voting Conscientiously
Pat Poggi - Choice Moments In DC
Art/Illustrated Writing
A.D. Winans - Grave Yard Headstone, Fallon, Nevada.
A.D. Winans - Anti-War Banner at the Women's Building,...
Tantra Bensko - Brainwashing
Paula Grenside - Cassandra
Paula Grenside - Dove
Ted Finn - Damn the Eternal War
Katrin Wiese - Larleadr
t.p. Luce - my people
Merrie Miller - Truth
Ari Rubin - Words of the Prophets
Rochelle Ratner - Analysis
Rochelle Ratner - Checkup
Rochelle Ratner - Ledge
Drek Davis - War
Terri Gelenian-Wood - Strange Bed Partners
Rhoda Novak - Discourage War, Seek Peace
Satch - Peace in Iraq
Satch - Next Hot Spot: 1st Marine Lands in Hell
Satch - Death Appears at the Republican Convention
Adam Wagler - Allegiance
Walter James O'Brien - Suicide Santa
DX Stone - Go Home
DX Stone - Scary World
DX Stone - Voices
Latuff - War for Oil
Latuff - Ronald
Latuff - Adolf
Patty Mooney - No War Know Peace
Patty Mooney - Vote Him Out
Tom Block - Supreme Court, My Ass
Stacey Fruits - Closing Time
Stacey Fruits - How Far Would You Go for Fuel
Janet Snell - War
Janet Snell - Artist Against Apartheid
Judy Jones - The Bones of the Homeless
Judy Jones - Seeing Thru the Eyes of a Child
John A. Thompson, Sr. - Boots & Bows
John A. Thompson, Sr. - Sacrifices & Blessings
John A. Thompson, Sr. - Unforgotten Firefighter
Sandra Shapiro - Cloister
Sandra Shapiro - Bike and Car
Anja Klauss - Who
Anja Klauss - Tony Blair
Anja Klauss - Hobby Horse
Wayne Bjerke - Drenched In Blood/Rumsfeld
Fiction/Plays
Bayard - This Is Not What America Is About
Stephen Ortman - Campaign Strategies
Maria Lapachet - We Were Young
Rob Rosen - The Mule and the Elephant
Ace Boggess - An excerpt from his unpublished novel,
Ha...
Greg Bauder - Mom and Apple Pie
Ellen Meeropol - Knocks
Anne Stickel - Afraid of the Dark
T. Zachary Cotler - We Get the Picture
Renee Roberson - The Cure
Tim Houlihan - Once Upon a Time in Manchester
William Borden - Joe and Al
Mary Porter-Chase - Dear Senator Kerry
Sandra Levy Ceren - Your Health Care Is at Risk
Robert Guffey - Letters to the President
Charles Langley - Sammy: A Children's Story for Adults
Paul Dickey - All-American Call Center
Elisabeth Carter - Since They Moved the Silver Bullet
Jonathan Lowe - The Bush Vocabulary
Stan Hinton - Devil's Advocate
Henry Pelifian - Americans in Iran
Lee Ehlers - Shame
Theresa Chaze - And Freedom for All
Melody Mansfield - A Day in September
Peter Breschard - Rapture
Wayne Scheer - Nothing Wrong with Cheating?
Jon Hubach - This Is America
Robert Ready - Autocephalous
Doren Robbins - Week of Nine Something
Andrew Kaye - Giving Peace a Chance
Bill Teitelbaum - The Order of the Bells
Nicole Matthews - The Last Transcript
Mrinal Bose - Excerpt from
The Dangling Man
John Quinn - An Interaction
Kari Ann Owen - Modern Life: The Bomb
Tracy Abell - Family First
Linda Hudson Hoagland - Learning To Hate
Thaddeus Rutkowski - Pink Slip for the President
C.B. Smith - The Articles of Peace
Paul Silverman - River Street
Colin Harvey - The Bounty Hunters
Miriam Fried - The Last Time I Saw America
Erika Dreifus - Calendar Man
Dina Televitskaya - The Terrible Days Now in Russia
Susan Spaulding - You Never Know
Rosalie Calabrese - Fly, Lily, Fly
L. J. Reed - Neil
Mike Ingles - Fresh Kill
Douglas Douglas - Spiderpig, 911
Antonios Maltezos - A Lamentable State of Mind
Suzanne LaFetra - Doom And Bloom
Kenneth Hickey - Election Night
Sand Rector - Tom, Dick and Harriet Go Home
Yvonne Chism-Peace - Space Invaders
Michael Cocchiarale - Operation Something
Nicole Matthews - Compassion for Hire
Nahid Rachlin - Unlikely Bomber
Steve Falcone - Stone's Throw
James S. Dorr - Peace on Earth
Ralph Monday - The Subduer
Tom Doughty - Rat Bait
Toby Tate - The Muffin Man
Beate Sigriddaughter - The Movie Buff
Jeff Haas - A Model Citizen
Daniel DiPrinzio - A Week with the Veep: Dick Cheney Opens...
P. J. Galldubh - The Deal
Utahna Faith - Mis-Take, a tale in six scenes
J. B. Hogan - Click It or Ticket
Raktabh Mahesh - Rachin's Engineered Heart
Peter A. Pascaris - A Capitol Idea
Charles Blackstone - Terrorist Tantrums
Karen Malpede - The Voice of Ready.Gov
Harry Tru - Howard & George
Trent Hudley - And to Believe I Saw It on Broadway
Ed McDermott - Going
Phillip Routh -
Alfred Brock - George W. Bush's Soliloquy
Brent Powers - Cleanup
Mark Olson -
Barbara Jacksha - The Red Trout
Margaret B. Davidson - Strange Justice
Terese Ficyk-Pampellonne - A Play
Amanda Lam -
Dave Yost - A Story
John Young - Liquid Gold
Poetry
Tony Barnstone - Alladin in Oakland
George Wallace - A Prayer in Time of American War
Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
John D. Smith - On Pacifism
Ellen Hopkins - Ugly in Black
Alan Shapiro - Dog and Owner
Richard Newman - What I Carry with Me
Collin Kelley - AIDS Suite
Rosemary Musachio - Twenty-four Hours a Day
Michelle Gibson - Prayer after 9-11-01
Lisa Harrison - The Answer
Randy Lofficier - I Heard It on the Evening News
Orville Lloyd Douglas - I Am Not Black
Lyn Lifshin - A Wet Cold Winter to Come
Bruce Boston - Concrete Poem for the President
Clayton Couch - Combat Poem
Dee Rimbaud - Atom Dead Latex
Donna Spector - When the Storm Comes
Alan Catlin - Three Views from a Burned Out Building in Ir...
Gil Allen - Wardrobe
Estelle Villas - Onoma
Joan Payne Kincaid - Policies of Deceit
Radomir Luza Jr - Yo (I Liked Ronald Reagan)
Robert Covelli - Heretic!
Rich Murphy - Terrorized
Corrine De Winter - Why Not to Vote for Bush
Elisha Porat - In Netanya, above the Cliff
Marge Simon - Patriots' Day
Jeffrey C. Alfier - No-Spin Zone
A.D. Winans - Written on the Bombing of Iraq
Ellen Birkett Morris - The Decision
Frank Anthony - Bless US American Bums
Ann Cefola - Portrait of My Country
Geoff Tims - The Voter Speaks
Stacie Barry - I Sold You, You Sold Me
Steven Brodsky - To Dust
Michele F. Cooper - The Way the War Gets Born
Vernyce Dannells - Names Have Been Changed
Amy Small-McKinney - Nigeria 2002
Tamir Buchshtav - Land
Frances Ruhlen McConnel - Where Have You Gone, You Glisten...
Stephen Oliver - The Desert as Palimpsest
Jake Vagus - A Cardinal in the Rain (Elegy to Reagan)
T. Luis Cox - The Salt of the Moon in the Shadow of Wasson...
Srinjay Chakravarti - Capitol Hill
Rayn Roberts - Opinions Expressed Here Are Not Necessarily...
Thomas Dorsett - Grave New World
Ahn Behrens - Dining in America
Florence Weinberger - Art and Artifice
Georgie Lee Blalock III - Not Sure They Got It Right
David Michael Jackson - I Knew Nothing of the War
Stephen B Grant - In the Wake of America's Storm
M.A. Internicola - Bombs Over Baghdad Wednesday Morning
Ann Elliott Sherman - Shiva in a Snakeskin Suit
Khadijah Queen - Free Country
Liz Dolan - Air Raid Drills
Joyce Meyers - Jenin's Daughter
Miriam Axel-Lute - Counter/Protest
Eddie Coletti - Torture
Daniel M. Shapiro - 86% Effective
Sharon Esther Lampert - Gay Brotherhood
Austin Alexis - Sounds of War
Susan H. Case - And Now We're Suddenly Quiet
Adele Bourne - Grocery List
Randy St. Marie - Voodoo Events
Magdalena Ball - The Modern World
Joel Mathew Hegberg - Essence Distilled
Barbara DeCesare - What You Say Goes
Scott Withiam - Government Dependence
Deborah Ferber - The Sweet Fruit of Revenge
Omékongo Dibinga - Welcome to the Congo
Gerry Nicosia - The Dead Bid George Farewell
Harry R. Wilkens - Real World
Bob Bradshaw - Monster in the Twenty-first Century
Patricia Wellingham-Jones - The Cleanest War in History
Charles H. Johnson - The Way We Were
Eileen Malone - Refugee Camp
Teresa White - Long Hot Summer of 2004
Curtis Carroll Rice - Strong Enough
Sally Buckner - Afternoons
Eileen Malone - Knife Thrower's Wife
Terry Lowenstein - A Different Harvest
Martin Kich - Homely Metaphors for Slaughter
Victor Camillo - The Newspaper
Gabrielle S. Faust - Desert War
Samuel Nicholson - Everyday Heroes
Tolu Ogunlesi - No Christmas in Baghdad
E. Louise Beach - After Battle
Daniel Thomas Moran - White on Rice
Braxton Younts - Old Glory
Duane Locke - Al Fresco Cafe Poems #12
John Dooley - Slave Killer It
Mike Sekuloff - Rage Plagues
Jack Cook - Feds and Meds: A Meditation
Doug Arnold - Newly Apolitical
Debashish Haar - Devaluation of Life
Jeanpaul Ferro - Talking to Yahweh at Raudhatain
John Tiong Chunghoo - Political Haiku
David Salner - Nixon Times (Or Was It Johnson)
Jack Cooper - No Longer
Christopher J. Jarmick - Crazy Talk
Gloria G. Murray - Chopin And President Bush
Marcus Bales - Found Poem: Recycle Bin
Justin Evans - Jubilate Agno
Larry Rapant - Political Speech
Helen Buckingham - Gardener's World
Joseph Alexander - Milk, Not War
Matthew D'Abate - Another One for the Grizzlies
Davina Rhine - Three Days and Four Nights
Chris Major - I See
Derek Tellier - Terror's Variables
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer - Conventional Behavior
Lorraine Stark - A Band of Sisters
Arthur Ford - At Least Half
Barry Ergang - We Regret to Inform You
Suzan Lustig - Fatal Reports on the Low-Carb Lifestyle
Sheila Nixon - Iraq, Safe For Democracy!
Judy Z. Kronenfeld - First Salvo
Howard Camner - Everything Changed Under Cromwell
Tom Moore - Rich Herds in Flames
Martin Bennett - September, 1972
Nina Corwin - Telling Time
Janet Butler - Iraq
John J. Mundt - What We Have on Our Hands
Vadim Bystritski - Off The Twin Tower
Craig Kirchner - Baghdad Dream
Hazel Wilcox - Communist America
Adi Albala - The Hawks at The Hague
Michael McIrvin - Virgil on Main Street: Poem Presaging Wa...
Jan Oscar Hansen - War Is Coming Our Way
Keith Berry - American Detox
John Francis Missett - These Dead of Yours
Susan O'Neill - Licensing Requirements
Enriqueta Rodriguez Carrington - To Those Who Have Been Di...
Eliza Kelley - Sudan Report
Jayne Lyn Stahl - A Special Breed
Raye Rose - Eleven Minutes
AnnMarie Eldon - Dear Donald
Glenn Hutchinson - Freedom
Anne Harding Woodworth - Tulip Control
L. Ward Abel - In Another Country Now
Jim D. Babwe - My Candidate Is an Honest Politician
Dawn M. Lang - Golden Eggs are for Pantyhose
Ulrike Gerbig - Ice Age
Christopher Kendalls - Your Electoral Vote
Robin M. Buehler - Sons of the Father
Lynn E. Cohen - Pearl Sky Days
Anna Evans - Next to of Course England America I…
Ed Wolverton - God Bless America
Samuel Minier - Radiant Jesus
Donna Nocera Miller - State of the Union
Susan Edwards Richmond - Crossing
Tony Reevy - Dreaming of Lincoln
Sandra J. Lindow - A Crow in Wartime
Michael Morical - Cento: By the Earth's Corpse
Terri Lyn Kenepp - Stars
June Saraceno - A Sudanese Mother, 2004
Corey Mesler - President W
Jerry Chambers - Morality Lost
Jon Wesick - Why I’m Voting for Kerry
M. Brisbin Miller, II - Tirades
Patricia Brody - Riverside Park: Battle Scene with Cherrie...
Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
Kate Bernadette Benedict - The Pledge
Rachel Webster - Anti-war
Wendy Drexler - The Twentieth Century
Gretchen Fletcher - Some Things Never Change
Scott Malby - Venus Furioso
Robert Cohen - Palestinians
Rachel Barenblat - No Alternatives
Dorothee Lang - Tipping the Scales
Ed Cockrell - Heaven's Reward
James Grinwis - The Violent Emotions of
Tony Word - A Poem Of Gratitude
John Bradley - Exorcism of the Word
Japheth Brubaker - Economy
Alana Merritt Mahaffey - Televising Tel Aviv
Bruce Williams - Bombs Away
Steven E. Brown - Sandy Koufax
Kenneth Pobo - Cannibals
Cheryl Stiles - Gulf
Riccardo Giovanni - Invisible (Unseen And Unheard)
Dory Hudspeth - Listening Through Politics
Lynn Veach Sadler - A Teenager Has Fears that He May Cease...
Esther Cameron - Premises
Laurence Loeb - Ars Politica
Steven Sher - Far from the War
Mack Bridenbaker - One-A-Day
Jessica Pankratz - Cloning a Nation
D. Breeden - History; Duty: A Song for Conservatives
Donnie Cox - American Business Card
Liz Riseden - A Woman Smiles
Jeffrey Michael Miller - Kerry vs. Kerry
Margaret Balch-Gonzalez - Apocalypse
Sherry Chandler - Rally
Anne Montague - Beheading
Shelley Ettinger - Blood Sport: a Geography
David B. Axelrod - Ited We Stan
Mark McKain - American Charm
Theresa Magliano - Make It Stop
Jeffrey Ethan Lee - Surreal (killer) soul in the USA
Peter S. Griffin - You Can't Fool Them All The Time!
Valery Oisteanu - Manifesto for the Abolition of Bureaucra...
Mark Nensel - Wrong
Jason Fraticelli - Stromboli's Playground
Ted Hedden - Indian Summer Breeze
Elizabeth Kerlikowske - State Of The Union
Yvonne Morris - News and Weather
Philip Reyth - America: A Prophecy
Justin Barrett - My Political Poem
Steve Dalachinsky - Pray for Me
Eve Packer - atocha
Abir Pathak - Politician (Strong willed man)
Morrigan Benton-Floyd - Body Count
Dorothy Laurence - Winter of 2004
Terry Hertzler - A Dangerous Place
Mary Bass - Your Servant From The Front
Nick Brown - the government above...
William R. Stoddart - A Tale of Two Presidents
Melanie Rivera - Ghazal
John E. Simonds - People of Commitment
Tanner McSwain - Requiem for Dust
Mark Sealey - After Life
Jan D. Hodge - Thoughts on Iraq
Cynthia Yates Alderman - A Salute To Our Troops
Ann Tweedy - domestic violence
Darby Harn - Santa Monica
Si Wakesberg - Three Political Parables For Our Time
Scott Compton - Strength
Tolkacz - American
Marcus Bales - Found Poem: Outsourcing
Lenore Weiss - Free Speech Zone
Sandy Crimmins - I'm Sicka His Shit
Dorothy Ryan - The Circle Is Unbroker
Sam Friedman - Elections, 2000
Drew DeFinis - The Fix
Calvin Weaver - Deacon Dragon’s Duty
Laurel Lamperd - Special Relationships
Barbara Hantman - New Year's 2003
Kathryn Allen - Broken Bullet-Proof Vests
Desirae Souverville - Lost Intentions
K. L. Jones - World Sight
Jerry Cunningham - Coming Home
Amy Ritchie - East to West
D.N. Moule - Politically Incorrect
Karren Alenier - You Can Tell 'em I'll Be There
Cheryl Snell - War
Barbara Southard - Man On A Bridge
Tim Bellows - America
Jerry Schaefer - Right?
Steve Alan Gerber - Distance
Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
Robin Leslie Jacobson - Stars and Stripes
Michael Lohr - The Ghosts Of War
Francis Masat - A Clod of Dirt
Brett Axel - George W
Sahar Delijani - There is no Forgetting
Ellen Sander - Bloodlines
Pat Brodie - Letter to Iraq
George G. Rose - A Long Tale A Wagging
John Bennett - Ymafni
Peggy Landsman - Good Morning, Barstow!
David E. Howerton - American faith
Amy Trussell - Life Preservers
Griffin Irving - Soldier Boy
Andy Larter - A Bullet For Everyone
Ralf Smart - The Hoeing Song
Stephen Mead - Rice
Peter Goodwin - This Land, Your Land
Margaret Rozga - Estuarian Politics
Michael Estabrook - Politics Is An Old Boot
Daniel Maguire - Leaders
Bob Newman - Rubaiyat of Saddam Hussein
Jean M. Welch - Inferno
William John Watkins - Convention Coverage
Gregory Betts - Effluviad
Sravana Reddy - Yes, the People
Tammy Turner-Peaden - Wars And Rumors Of
Justine Pena - Our Men and Women in Service
Sandy Knauer - No Soul
Rosalie Calabrese - Oil
Bren Gentry - I Approve this Message
Isabelle Ghaneh - Crazy Sounds, Coming Loud
Anthony Fedanzo - Beggars in the Butcher Yard
Marte Broehm - Fifty Years Forward: A Prophesy for 2053
Richard Hahn - Exit Strategy
Gaille Merrill - Still Waving
Lisa Haviland - Noose
Mordecai Marcus - Disaffected
Laura Crews - Death of the Yamana or Yaghan
D. E. Green - Continental Divide
Giselle L. Betts - And Now a Word on Our Government
Adam Penna - From Ben and I
Lucy Fuchs - Soldier
Daniel Pantano - Pedigreed Hands
Joseph McGreevy - Weapon of Mass Destruction
Karen Newman - American Politicians
Frank Joussen - Power Point
Dan Wilcox - July 4th
Jesseca Cornelson - Hair Cut
Michael Tritto - New Century Old
Brenda Seabrooke - Pay Per View
Leonore Wilson - At the Grave of Abedul Hassn, Baghdad
Chris Faiers - The fire has come down from the mountain
Anatoly Tsaliovich - The Pig That Grew Horns
Phillip Robets - Curds and Whey
Kathy Downey - War Gods
Gail Goldsmith - Prospect
Jeff Redstone - The Daily News
Alec Whittle - indiana (amy)
Eugene Schlanger - Afghanistan
Henry Howard - The Boy with the Bomb
Emma Phillips - The Grand Old President
Marj Hahne - Friday, 13 August 2004
Marcus Bales - The Jabberwonks
Allyson Whipple - Evil Either Way
Roger J. Crotty - George II
Katherine Murphy - Tambourine Days
Bill Roberts - Dreaming of Freedom
Zach Christian - No Sale; No Sense of Taste
James E. Roethlein - The City
Peter Morriss - Better a Millstone…
Benjamin Hartley - The Tower
Kristen Havens - Risk
Tasha Klein - My fellow Americans
Maria Fama - Fireworks On July 4, 2004
Paul Hostovsky - War & Peace
Phillip Corwin - Bush League
Sarah Levenson - Poem That Morning
Pat Barber - Homefront
Susie Howard - WTHEFM
Marilynn Fuqua - Derelicts
George Held - Patriotism: November 11, 2002
Joe McLaughlin - Springtime In Iraq (3 Tankas)
Pamela Pignataro - Political Haiku
Hal Sirowitz - Home-grown Anger
Grey Held - The Beech Tree
Darlene Lancer - War and Peace
Darryl Wellington - The Sinister Mind of Fu Manchu
John Bryan - Surrealerial Killer
Brian Howe - The Waiver
Megan Webster - A Truck Full of Parts
Roy A. Chávez - Peace has the pale color of a cross
Caroline Washington - Don't Forget About Me...
Robert K Meyer II - The Fat Tuesday Speech
Douglas A. Yingling - Countdown to Terrorism
Sam Grabelle - Government
Carol Williams - Decisive Victories
Jerry Norris - Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Gloria Cosgrove - Lament of a Gardener
Ulf Kirchdorfer - Go for It
Jadene Felina Stevens - The President Said
Manuel Figuroa - A Distant Chime
Jeff Leong - Third World Child
Leslie Enloe - Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Jeannine Hall Gailey - You Misunderstand Republicans
Ruth Mark - The final curtain call.
Paul Kloppenborg - World Economy
Elizabeth Penrose - A Pacifist in Wartime
Marcus Bales - Against Zealotry
Joseph Byrd - Gulf War II
Len Bourret - No 'Freddie the Freeloaders' in the ...
Jack Adler - Mirrors of Remorse
Susan Landon - Airport Screening
Bryan Thao Worra - What Tomorrow Takes Away
Teresa Peipins - On the Death of a Friend, The Start of th...
Ram Mehta - Everything‘s under control
Geo Staley - Sioux Victory Day June 25th
Nettie Bozanich - Daydreaming from Canada
GinnaKarla S. Nicolas - I Can’t Eat Enough Oatmeal
Joy O'Donnell - Poetry And Politics
Steve Dalachinsky - Beached 2
JB Mulligan - it's worth something
Arlene Zide - The New Romans Learn Doublespeak
Jean Lehrman - Kansas
Danielle Grilli - Soldier Downed By Senseless Act of Viole...
Mary Saracino - Enforcing the Peace
Paul Utukuru - Our Religion and Our Politics in the Year 2...
Darlene Estlow - Price Of Peace
Jose Gouveia - Talking Middle East in South West Ireland
Anatoly Tsaliovich - Liberal Rock
Jeffrey Kahrs - Current Events
Gunther Haas - Poets Against Poets Against The War
Michael Meyerhofer - Our Patriotic Conundrum
Geona Edwards - Images
Sarah L. Tolcser - The Day the City Fell
Melanie Stiles - Red, White and Blue Moments
Beate Sigriddaughter - A Place for the Unborn
Kenneth B. Chiacchia - Victim
Helen Tzagoloff - Coronation At The Capital
Darla Wells - Written When all the Country Had to Worry Ab...
Felicia Chernesky - Not Just Your Own Private Sorrow
Charlaine Coleman - Progress
Peter H. Desmond - Black Body Radiation
Viviana Grell - Brand X
Shanna Germain - Laid Bare
Chris O'Carroll - Doing Her Bit For The War Effort, Th...
Marcus Bales - Found Poem: Frivolous Lawsuits
Philip Pisani - Upstate Hometown
Christopher George - The Progress of Christ through Americ...
Bill Britton - Electioneering
Barbara Reiher-Meyers - Election Story
David Buchsbaum - Septembers Happen
Dan Smith - King Of The World
Barbara MacKay - The Bush
Helen Losse - Mantra 2004, The Republican Convention
Joel L. Young - More?
Lynn Stoller - Politics
Katherine Adamenko - War Haikus/Haikus for War
Paul Catafago - Memory Failure (for Ronald Reagan)
Dave Holt - Choirboy
Marcus Bales - Every Fool
Maria Ponce de Leon - Radio Flyer
Adrian Lurssen - Analysis of an Otherwise Intelligence
Sunny Solomon - On the Way to Iraq Everywhere There is Dan...
Anthony "Skip" Fedanzo - Election Day
Kelley Jean White - A stranger spoke in Quaker meeting
Shawnte Orion - Arizona Wildfires, like Global Diplomacy
Allen Lau - Revolution, and Sing
Thomas H. Brennan - Oxymorons
S. M. O'Halloran - Back to the Stone Age
Barbara Hoffman - Variations on a Prayer
Mark S. Bauer - America in 2003
Mary Langer Thompson - Rolling the Stone Away
Vera Rich - The Ballad of a Useful Man
Nathaniel Smith - News from the Front
Celestine Woo - From the Christian Cauldron
John Setliffe Bourne - We Don't Need No Stinking Envir...
Tamara Kaye Sellman - Alive
Mira Kores - To a Spy
Edward Roberts - A Salute to Those Who Serve
Mame Willey - Given The Impending Election
Steven Ratiner - Mass Grave
Andres Castro - I Know Racism
J. Che' Davies - I am America
Eve Hoffman - Spring Shout 2003
Maurisa Thompson - Pictures from Fallujah
Ken Buhr - Until
Michael Boettcher - Please, Can You Spare a Quarter? I'...
Philip Burton - A Word to The Unwise
Celest Woo - From the Christian Cauldron
Deborah J. Hunter - My Poems Are Too Loud
David Wright - If Poets Ruled
Serena M. Agusto-Cox - Campaign 2004
Lynn Stoller - Wavy Gravy's Ghost Gives Up
Geraldine Cannon - The Perfect Candidate
Eliet Brookes - George
Dale Jacobson - The Ballad of Rachel Corrie
Bruce DuBoff - Sonnet for Caesar
Lou Bradley - War
Rosalie Calabrese - Oil
Pat Falk - After Reading Women on War
Philip Allen - Where ‘the Problem’ Lies
David Radavich - The Day Our Hero Rode Into Town
Carol Bevan Bogart - Wingspan
S Beth Bishop - Honeymoon, Manhattan
John J. Trause - On the Horror, Futility, and Absurdity of...
Schuyler Bishop - When Abercrombie & Fitch Went Off to War
Phil J. Gatton - Solomon
ISSUE TWENTY-FOUR: Oct-Dec (04)
Vote Now for
Pedestal
Readers' Awards
Poetry
Introduction by Bruce Boston
Robert Champ - The Collectors
Tim Jones - Love Scene with Monks
Mike Allen - Miró’s Mirror
Lincoln Michel - The Color of Mouse Trails on Snow
Marcia Nehemiah - Saved
Jennifer Jerome - Answer for Me
Thomas Reynolds - The Day I Became an Exile
Elizabeth Barrette - The Poltergeist of Polaris
S. C. Cavanaugh - The Crucifix Between Her Breasts
Roger Pfingston - Photographing Emily
Kara Candito - Falling Woman
Charlee Jacob - Taking No Prisoners
Tim Jones - Death Gets Wheels
Robert Champ - The Page
Fiction
Marge Simon - Blood on My Tongue
Marcy Lehtinen - Loss
Brenda Ling - Call Me Eddie
Justin Crouse - The Jungle Room
Jordan Rosenfeld - No Marks
Mary McLaughlin Slechta - Ma’s One and Only Road Trip
Interviews
Interview with Robert J. Sawyer
Interview with Dorothy Drummond
Reviews
T. C. Boyle's
The Inner Circle
...reviewed by Ma...
Sharon Olds'
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 198...
Ilya Kaminsky's
Dancing in Odessa
...reviewe...
Janice Moore Fuller's
Sex Education
...revie...
The San Francisco Pedestal Event
Introduction
Grumble Bunny
Valencia Street Books
Amanda Cotten (Owner of Valencia Street Books)
Partial Audience Shot
John Amen
John Amen (2)
A.D. Winans
A.D. Winans (2)
Ruth Daigon
Ruth Daigon (2)
C.E. Chaffin
C.E. Chaffin (2)
Rachel Dacus
Rachel Dacus (2)
David Lunde
David Lunde (2)
Intermission (Partial Audience Shot)
Alan Kaufman
Alan Kaufman (2)
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Jayne Lyn Stahl (2)
Linda Boroff
Shirley Bohrer Capp (reading for Linda Boroff)
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky (2)
Loren Jenks
Loren Jenks (2)
ISSUE TWENTY-FIVE: Dec (04)-Feb (05)
Editor's Introduction
Vote Now for
Pedestal
Readers' Awards
Poetry
Introduction by Bruce Boston
Steven Ratiner - Ancient Flute Discovered in Jiahu, China
Michael Spring - The Pickaxe
Kevin Keck - The Archaeologist
Daryl Muranaka - Saying Goodbye
Arlene Ang - Constable Wu Gives His Halberd to Madame Lian...
Eugenia Hepworth Petty - Istanbul, Turkey; September, 1997
Joe Haldeman - ghosts
Barry Brummett - At the Gun Show
Kathryn Hawkins - Slopes
Jordan Sanderson - Another Reason to Cut Out Your Tongue B...
Michael Brosnan - Finding My Voice
Carolyn Brigit Flynn - Take a Walk by Your Town
Adam Cornford - Wing
G.O. Clark - Family Tree
Fiction
Grant Tracey - For Sharon
Matthew Katz - Charity Stripe
Reviews
Philip Levine's
Breath
...reviewed by Wynn Y...
Robert Sund's
Poems from Ish River Country: Col...
Diane Lockward's
Eve's Red Dress
...revi...
Terri Brown-Davidson's
Marie, Marie Hold on Tig...
Catherynne M. Valente's
The Labyrinth
...rev...
Heidi Lynn Staples'
Guess Can Gallop
...revi...
The New York Pedestal Event
Introduction
Housing Works
Crowd Gathering
John Amen (Welcoming)
Richard Newman
Carol Carpenter
Juanita Torrence-Thompson
J.D. Smith
Chris George
Pat Falk
Barbara Seaman
Chocolate Waters
John Amen with Guitar
Intermission (Partial Shot)
Donna Spector
Scott Summers
Rochelle Ratner
Radomir Luza
Sharon Esther Lampert
Jean Lehrman
Ellin Pollachek
Florence Weinberger
George Wallace
John Amen (Closing)
ISSUE TWENTY-SIX: Feb-Apr (05)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Hayden Carruth
from "A Few Dilapidated Arias"
Interview with Hayden Carruth
The
Pedestal Magazine
Readers' Awards
Poetry
First Place: Carol Howard-Johnson's "Olvera ...
Second Place: Rosemary Clark's "Waltz"
Third Place: Jennifer Jerome's "Answer for M...
Fiction
Honorable Mention: Ellen Birkett Morris's "L...
Poetry
Liz Dolan - The Interloper
Kevin Conder - Uncle
Ona Gritz - Washington Square, 1982
Catherynne M. Valente - Memoirs of a Girl Who Failed to Be...
Andrea Defoe - On Salvaging the Whore
Charles Fishman - A Dream of the Morning
David Koehn - The Missing Island
Megan Buckley - Lunchtime, The Turk’s Head, Dublin
Toni E. Scales - Tryst
Allison McEntire - Operation Iron Hammer*
Sandra Kohler - Desire
Jun de la Rosa - Storm News
Fiction
Introduction by Nathan Leslie
Jai Clare - Bristles and Blood
Suzanne Nielsen - Thick Skinned
Rebecca Kraft - Jack Squat
Steven R. Cope - Hannibal's Messiah
William Payne - Get Help
Lainee Frizzo - The Moon and the Stars
Reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2004
...reviewed by ...
Grace and Gravity
...reviewed by Barbara M. Simo...
Sarah Maclay's
Whore
...reviewed by Collin Kelle...
Rebecca Loudon's
Tarantella
...reviewed by Jeann...
Louise Erdrich's
Four Souls: A Novel
...revi...
ISSUE TWENTY-SEVEN: Apr-Jun (05)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - John Dufresne
Interview with John Dufresne
John Dufresne - Knife in the Head
Poetry
Irene Livingston - Over
Jared Smith - Storm King Mountain
Corrine De Winter - Our Lady of Fifth Avenue
Susan Edwards Richmond - Yoga Practicum
M. Scott Douglass - A View from the West Virginia Turnpike
Walter Bargen - The Oscars
Louisa Howerow - Forewarned
Cheryl Stiles - Ball Lightning
Karyna McGlynn - Photo, 1977
Christine Potter - Talking to Beethoven, 1967
Sandra Del Valle - An Open, Late Letter to Paul Celan
Emily S. Warren - Fate
Fiction
Angela Carlton - The Lost Ones
CL Bledsoe - Smoke Break
Meredith Sue Willis - The Story of Scheherezade and Dunzya...
Reviews
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005
...reviewed by Matth...
Joanna Catherine Scott's
Breakfast at the Shang...
David Barringer's
Terminally Curious
...reviewed...
George Wallace's
Burn My Heart in Wet Sand
....
A.D. Winans'
The Wrong Side of Town
...revie...
Florence Weinberger's
Carnal Fragrance
...re...
ISSUE TWENTY-EIGHT: Jun-Aug (05)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - T.C. Boyle
Interview with T.C. Boyle
Essays
Apocalypse Then:
After the Plague
(2001) and ...
“You think I think this is funny?": The Humo...
T. Coraghessan Boyle and Surviving the Baby Boom...b...
Poetry
Arlene Ang - Mistress Lin Counts Her Husband's Snores ...
Bruce Boston - The Scream Behind the Mirror
Patrick Carrington - Reverence
Ona Gritz - Midsummer
Daniel Y. Harris - Husk
Barbara Hendryson - Of the Mission, by Moonlight
Sandra Kohler - February, 2001
Thomas D. Reynolds - The Hard-Boiled Paleontologist
Jonathan K. Rice - Gazebo
Toni E. Scales - Minerva
Marge Simon - My Purple Tie
Estelle Villas - Addiction
A.D. Winans - Untitled
Fiction
Jody Jaffe - Flora's Legs
Dawn Paul - Fishcutters
Featured Artist - Javier López Barbosa
159
Vida Nueva II
Through Learning Times
Timeless Pleasure
Magical Kiss
Paradise Mountain
Moment of Joy
Encanto
Moon Shadows
Reviews
W.S. Merwin's
Migration: New and Selected Poems
...
Charles Fishman's
5,000 Bells
...reviewed by...
M. Scott Douglass's
Steel Womb Revisted
...r...
Joy Passanante's
The Art of Absence
...revie...
Verse: The Second Decade
...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrou...
Darcy Shargo's
The Flame and the Fiction
......
David Lieberman's
The Task, The Hoard & The Lon...
ISSUE TWENTY-NINE: Aug-Oct (05)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - Jimmy Santiago Baca
Inside the Dream
Two Poems
Interview with Jimmy Santiago Baca
Poetry
L. Ward Abel - Apologia from Unknown Parts
Tammy Armstrong - Bike
Ash Bowen - Weather Report
Charles Fishman - In the Wave
Rebecca Morgan Frank - Hurricane House Party
Amelia Klein - The Driftwood Hour
Elisha Porat - A Biblical Experience
Liza Porter - Disappeared
Sarah Sloat - 3 Deep
Rose M. Smith - Birthing (the divorce)
Jari Thymian - Ernesto in the River
Jacqueline West - Life through a Black Net Veil
Fiction
R.T. Smith - Trebuchet
Richard Peabody - The Rain in Eritrea
Krista O'Connell - Stick Girl with Flowing Black Hair
Miriam N. Kotzin - Just Desserts
Featured Artist - Edward Wolverton
The Flirt
The Dancer
Fair Maiden
Innocence
The Blue Vase
Dream Lover
The Geisha
Mendicino Coast, The Hooters
Bloom
The Great Southern
Reviews
Fiction Collective Two (FC2)...books reviewed by Natha...
Gilda Morina Syverson's
In This Dream Everything Re...
Jeannine Hall Gailey's
Female Comic Book Supe...
Gloria Kurian Broder's
Their Magician and Oth...
Michael Spring's
Mudsong
...reviewed by Coll...
Fuad Attal's
Love & Memory
...reviewed by Jo...
ISSUE THIRTY: Oct-Dec (05)
Editor's Introduction
Featured Writer - C.K. Williams
Interview with C.K. Williams
The Danse Macabre of Forgiveness and Repair: C.K. Williams...
Entering Into
The Singing
with C.K. Williams...by J...
Mythology in the Poetry of C.K. Williams…by Jeannine Hall ...
Poetry
Barbara Crooker - Elegy for New Orleans
Kathleen Burgess - For Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Daniel M. Shapiro - How to Write a Score for “The Adventur...
Lynn Strongin - Oyster Boy
Jody Helfand - Photo: Elderly Jew, Young Boy
Jan Steckel - The Maiden Aunts
Sonia Pereira - Copper Blessings
Michael Spring - Decades from the Azores
Kathryn Allen - Nagoya to Hawaii, 1953
M - Complaint to Betsy's Shoe, Found in a Bowl of Popc...
Susan Edwards Richmond - Mycology
Fiction
D.E. Fredd - The Pleasure of Emily's Company
Okla Elliott - Insect Life
Featured Artist - Iv Toshain
daydream
woods
just married
bunny scene fever
paradise
counterstrike
the bridge
coup
Reviews
Dick Barnes'
A Word Like Fire: Selected Poems
.....
Rachel Dacus's
Femme au Chapeau
...reviewed ...
Kazuo Ishiguro's
Never Let Me Go
...reviewed...
Steven R. Cope's
The Furrbawl Poems
...revie...
A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry
...rev...
Ralph Nazareth's
Ferrying Secrets
...reviewe...
Gary L. McDowell's
The Blueprint
...revi...
ISSUE THIRTY-ONE: Dec (05)-Feb (06)
Editor's Introduction
Second Annual
Pedestal
Readers' Awards
Poetry
George Wallace - A Cheyenne Woman
Andrea Defoe - About Hibernation
Bruce Boston & Marge Simon - Lilith Revisited
Jaclyn Friedman - Watermelon Basketball
Michael Johnson - Cessna
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb - Southwest to Northeast: A Diag...
Amy Ouzoonian - This Is How It Happened
Irene Livingston - Sam McGee, Cremated One More Time
Douglas S. Jones - Excerpts from the “Sexy" series
Sara Berkeley - Golden Temple
Florence Weinberger - Peter Serkin at the Libbey Bowl in O...
Philip Dacey - New York Postcard Sonnet #9
Michele Heather Pollock - Serenade
Fiction
Introduction by Nathan Leslie
Angela Carlton - Funeral People
Mark Kline - Naaja
Wayne Scheer - Off the Road
Liliana V. Blum - Lazarus (translated from the Spanish by ...
Greg Gerke - Visitors
Rob Taylor - She Runs
Interviews
Interview with Robert Pinsky
Interview with Hannah Tinti
Interview with Bruce Holland Rogers
Reviews
Al Maginnes's
Film History
...reviewed by Terri ...
Stanley H. Barkan's
Mishpocheh
...reviewed b...
Jared Smith's
Lake Michigan and Other Poems
...
Two Books by Oswald LeWinter...reviewed by Rachel Dacu...
Uzma Aslam Khan's
Trespassing
...reviewed by...
Amy Uyematsu's
Stone Bow Prayer
...reviewed ...
Frank Bidart's
Star Dust
...reviewed by Sara...
Lois Roma-Deeley's
northSight
...reviewed by...
ISSUE THIRTY-TWO: Feb-Apr (06)
Editor's Introduction
Poetry
Jennifer Jerome - Last Winter, Edina, Minnesota
Catherynne M. Valente - November Is a Silent Month
Jan Steckel - Harder
Toni E. Scales - On Reading Joshua Miller's
The Mao...
Charles Fishman - Head on a Frozen Lake
Martina Newberry - No Hay Banda
Michael Homolka - Living Room Window
Jan Steckel - The Underwater Hospital
Ellen Kombiyil - What Stars Explode
Peter Krok - That Departure
Sam Byfield - Still Sarajevo
Marina Lee Sable - Metropolis of the Mind
Arlene Ang - Marshal Song Enters the Servants' Quarter...
Kristin Berger - Counting Cross-Stitch
Kristine Ong Muslim - How to Make a Perfect Storm
Fiction
Introduction by Nathan Leslie
Antonios Maltezos - A Landscape and a Horse to Ride
Jesse Waters - Keeping What’s Broken
J. Brundage - The Jig
Eric Stoveken - Fastidious
The 2005
Pedestal
Readers' Awards
Poetry
First Place: Estelle Villas - Addiction
Second Place: Jan Steckel - Maiden Aunts
Third Place (tie): Amy Ouzoonian - This Is How It Ha...
Third Place (tie): M - Complaint to Betsy's Shoe...
Fiction
Winner: Angela Carlton - The Lost Ones
Honorable Mention: Okla Elliott - Insect Life
Interviews
Interview with Don Lee
Interview with Matt Klam
Reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2005
...reviewed by ...
Ted Kooser's
Delights and Shadows
...reviewe...
Aimee Bender's
Willful Creatures
...reviewed...
Jay Griswold's
Conquistador
...reviewed by J...
David Slavitt's
Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and ...
Anne Silver's
Bare Root: A Poet’s Journey with ...
Billy Lombardo's
The Logic of a Rose: Chicago S...
Marlin Barton's
Dancing by the River
...revi...
ISSUE THIRTY-THREE: Apr-Jun (06)
Editor's Introduction
Special Feature: North Carolina Poets
Mark Smith-Soto - Get a Hold
Al Maginnes - Airport Chapels
Heather Ross Miller - The Lost Poems of Ernest Hemingway
Sarah Lindsay - Land's End
Jaki Shelton Green - Inside a Jallalabad Mirage
Janice Moore Fuller - The Moon Tells Me
Rachelle Rogers - Turning Time
Glenn Hutchinson - the gardener-artist
Valerie Nieman - Eager
David Manning - Recurrences
Fred Chappell - In the Retirement Home (excerpts)
Nicole Cartwright Denison - The Alcove’s Confession
Diana Pinckney - The Dance
Tanya Olson - Caught in a Trap: The Dead Redux
Sara Claytor - Red Leaf Oracle
Laurie Capps - Cousin Gideon
Fiction
Introduction by Craig Renfroe
Melody Clayton - Julia
Derek Nikitas - All Nite Video
Dawn Sperber - Why the Moon
Interviews
Interview with Bruce Smith
Interview with Connie Schultz
Reviews
Kathryn Kulpa's
Pleasant Drugs
and Ander Mo...
In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief
...
Martina Newberry's
Running Like a Woman With He...
Deborah Batterman's
Hair Shoes Nails
...revi...
Albert Russo's
The Crowded World of Solitude, V...
Leonard Gontarek's
Déjà vu Diner
...reviewed...
Samuel Menashe's
New and Selected Poems
...r...
ISSUE THIRTY-FOUR: Jun-Aug (06)
Editor's Introduction
Poetry
Introduction by Amy Small-McKinney
Julia Lisella - Children
Emily Symonds & Fritz Ward - The Sweet Here (& After)
Melissa Frederick - Sunrise Service II
Bruce Smith - Widow with Dead Pony
Anjana Deshpande - Driving in the USA
Tim Suermondt - The One Story
Elizabeth Twiddy - The Oldest, Wordless Story
Janet Buck - Erosion
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis - Aglow
Martina Newberry - Outlook
Johnson Cheu - Silhouette Artist
Sandra Kohler - The Bowl
Leonard Gontarek - Eleven Poems About Distance
Justin Vicari - Nature
JoLee G. Passerini - Flight
Fiction
Introduction by Nathan Leslie
Tammy Wilson - The French Chef
E.V. Slate - Room For Everyone
Andrew McIntyre - Ambush
Margot Demopoulos - Smyrna
Interviews
Interview with Tananarive Due
Interview with Dan Chaon
Reviews
Jared Smith's
Seven Minutes Before The Bombs Dr...
Jeannine Hall Gailey's
Becoming the Villainess<...
Collin Kelley's
Slow to Burn
...reviewed by ...
Charles Fishman's
Chopin's Piano
...revi...
Larissa Shmailo's
The No-Net World
...review...
Lara Vapnyar's
Memoirs of a Muse
...reviewed...
Gary Fincke's
Standing Around the Heart
...r...
Two Books by Mike Allen...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderho...
ISSUE THIRTY-FIVE Aug-Oct (06)
Editor's Introduction
Poetry
Introduction by Jared Smith
T.M. De Vos - Snow
Michael Spring - I Have Planted a Door
Jennifer K. Sweeney - The Bird Carver
Eric Greinke - Garment
Harry Smith - Death in England
Hu Diqing - A Display Window (translated from the Chinese ...
Mihai Ursachi - The Story of the Traveler with Cherries (t...
P.V. LeForge - Gum Swamp Footbridge
Maureen Flannery - Nkisi Nkondi, Power Figure from Republi...
Bette Lynch Husted - Private Archeology
Kathi Morrison-Taylor - Seth
Donna Pucciani - The Art of an Affair
Marie Ashley-France - Basin
Alia Hussain - Monologue with the Sky
A.D. Winans - The Man You Don't Want to See
Fiction
Introduction by Nathan Leslie
Zan Bockes - For the Love of God
Jim O'Loughlin - The Real Story
Tammy Wilson - The French Chef
Breanna Downie - Lines Written on Public Baths
Shad Itschner - What's Not There
Miriam Kotzin - Souvenir
Erika Dreifus - Rio, 1946
Interviews
Interview with Rilla Askew
Interview with Ben Bova
Reviews
Philip Dacey's
The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poem...
The Bizarro Starter Kit
...reviewed by JoSelle V...
Barbara Jane Reyes's
Poeta en San Francisco
...
Jan Steckel's
The Underwater Hospital
...rev...
M.G. Miller's
Bayou Jesus
...reviewed by A.M...
Francoise Dorner's
The Woman in the Row Behind<...
Irene Blair Honeycutt's
The Prince with the Gol...
Chelsea Rathburn's
The Shifting Line
...revi...
ISSUE THIRTY-SIX: Oct-Dec (06)
Editor's Introduction
Thank You to Our Recent Donors!
Recent Donors
Poetry
Introduction by Arlene Ang
Joseph Bradshaw - My Heart in Hiding/ Stirred for a Bird
MTC Cronin - The Ladder Is Not
Ruth Daigon - Until Light Grows Old
S. Jason Fraley - Narcissus in Old Age
Carol Frith - Quetzals: Solving a Collage for Images and P...
Liz Gallagher - Episode iii: The Day the Shelling Started
Timothy Green - After Hopper
Stan Marcus - Parts of a Hole
Roger Scott - Paradise and Fortune Avenue
Paul Sohar - tuesday morning
James Tipton - Hardening into Stone
Moez Surani - Cairo
Ann Walters - The Corps of Discovery Licks its Salty Lips
Kelley Jean White - 305. One-Drawer Work Stand, Important
Caroline Wilson - the love letter
Fiction
Chris Fox - That Person Is a World I Want to Live In
Jen Michalski - Discount
Katherine Ludwig - The Candy Stand Man
Linda Muhlhausen - Reply to Jennifer
Interviews
Interview with Ted Kooser
Reviews
2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets
...revi...
Maureen F. McHugh's
Mothers & Other Monsters
Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area W...
Richard Jeffery Newman's
The Silence of Men
...
T. Luis Cox's
A Stone Blessing
...reviewed b...
Catherynne M. Valente's
The Grass-Cutting Sword...
Jennifer Reeser's
Winterproof
...reviewed by...
T.C. Boyle's
Talk Talk
...reviewed by Matthe...
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POETRY
Introduction by Michael Spring
Jared Smith - Life at the Margins
Sandra Kohler - Wildness
Erick Mertz - Words Like Estuary
MaryAnn Franta Moenck - Novemb...
Jared Carter - Wheat Penny
Jean Hollander - Organs and Blood...
Leonard J. Cirino - The Mirror
Andrea Dulanto - Rothko Room, Tat...
David Thornbrugh - Even the Fifty...
Janet Buck - Asterisks
John Grey - A House
Kristine Ong Muslim - Little Jimm...
Charles Freeland - Why Light Was ...
Jehanne Dubrow - After Visiting t...
Ed Frankel - Transformational Gra...
FICTION
Maureen Pilkington - New Year’s E...
R.T. Smith - Air Band
W.A. Low - Not Brian
Richard Peabody - Everybody’s Sto...
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
Interview with Charles F. Price
REVIEWS
Peter Thabit Jones's
T...
Dying for It: Tales of Sex...
A.D. Winans's
The Othe...
Barbara Crooker's
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