Summer 2011 Cover

Poetry

  • Getting to Know Killarney Clary 1
  • Killarney Clary Untitled #1 4
  • Killarney Clary Untitled #2 5
  • Killarney Clary Untitled #3 6
  • Killarney Clary Untitled #4 7
  • Killarney Clary Untitled #5 8
  • Jenith Charpentier Untitled 14
  • Rebecca Leah Kingdom Fungi 16
  • RJ Ingram Still Life with Three Legged Cat 18
  • RJ Ingram Maslenitsa 20
  • April Dressel Unreachable 21
  • Peter Serchuk The Girl Without a Heart 22
  • Rick Marlatt How to End the Day 24
  • AJ Roberts New Haven, 2 AM 26
  • William Reichard Undated Photograph, Circa 1875, California 27
  • Kate Falvey Notes for a Ghost Poem 28
  • Kate Falvey Red Shoes 29
  • Elizabeth Johnston Dancing with Sylvia 31
  • Yulya Deych this is a question about who's gonna come out on top - I mean, it's hard to feel secure about things 32
  • Genevieve Betts Pest Vignettes 33
  • Jack Kristiansen Fabric 35
  • Jackson Lassiter Conceptual Biology 36
  • Sean Battle When Asked to Shave Dad's Head 37
  • Ravael Miguel Montes Clock (3:14) 39
  • Michael Lindgren Patrick's Song 40
  • Stephen Longfellow Sunrise 41
  • Sherman Alexie Signs 42
  • Sherman Alexie Best Friend 43
  • Sherman Alexie Hell 44
  • Josh Medsker On Guadalupe Street in Summer 46
  • Matthew Richards Break Up Letter to the Sun 48
  • Matthew Richards Shipwreck Sestina 50
  • Matthew Richards Ruby 52
  • Tara Betts No Whit Robes 53
  • Roxanne Halpine Ward Chicken 54
  • Carol Levin The Reason We Keep Secrets 55
  • Jessica Inclan Spoon Rest 56
  • Crystal Bacon Thanksgiving 58
  • Janet Barry Plastic Bird of Paradise 59
  • Kristina England The Dichotomy of Us 60
  • Laura Carter On Ideas 62
  • Grant Clauser Susan in October, Pregnant 64
  • Diane Smith Beneath These Blue Ridge Mountains 65
  • Melanie Faith Serpentine 66
  • Melanie Faith Visitor 67
  • Jenny Billings Beaver Touchy Feely 68
  • Lise Tellor-Kelley Savor the Flesh 69
  • Jessica Fordham Kidd The Local Lore 70
  • Rich Ives The Heaven of Cows 72
  • Ruth Foley Love Poem for My Eyelids 74
  • Jessica Young I am Learning Spanish 75
  • Sean Morrissey My First Letter in Pen 76
  • Lee E. Rorman Before That 77
  • Pavlo (Pawlo) Tychyna/Steve Komarnyckyj The Summer Comes 80
  • B. C. Mitchell When Fires Collide 82
  • Carol Alexander Rose Lake 83
  • Carol Alexander Culling 86
  • Mary-Catherine Jones Short Credo That No Longer Concerns the Orange Hat 87
  • Mary-Catherine Jones Mess of Bloom 88
  • Chelsea Grimmer Jack Yeats’ Two Travellers, 1942 89
  • Chelsea Grimmer Woman in a Black and White Photograph 91
  • Shana Wolstein Buzzard Lines 92
  • Shana Wolstein Instigation 93
  • Marynia Kolak En Leon 95
  • Marynia Kolak sensing the perfume of your fresh kill 96
  • Sara Lier The First Time I Cut my Knee 97
  • Sara Lier In August 98

Artwork

  • Getting to Know Mike Curato 9
  • Mike Curato Feast 13
  • Mike Curato Mabel McNabb and the Most Boring Day Ever: “Rats!” 38
  • Mike Curato Mabel McNabb and the Most Boring Day Ever: “Like Two Orange Fried Eggs” 63
  • Mike Curato Speranza 79
  • Rebecca Clever Off I-395 South 25
  • Anannya Dasgupta Still Waters 34
  • Irene Mathieu Chimi Stand D'Jonatan 47
  • Jacbo Oet Trees From the Gutters 71
  • Jacbo Oet Like Vines 85