Winter/Spring 2007
Long Stories/ Lean Poems
Issue 23
Jay Neugeboren
story
You Are My Heart
W.S. Merwin
poetry
Inheritance; Photographer; The First Days
R.T. Smith
poetry
Pentecost
Robert Gibb
poetry
Keepsakes: A Pocket Guide; Industrial Relics, Station Square
Sarah Lindsay
poetry
Beyond Rubies; The Invention of Comfort; Destruction
The Crane among its Minions; And Now for Something
Completely Different; Dear V.M.
poetry
William Logan
Peg Boyers
poetry
Judgment Day; Sara Conversazione
Andrew Osborn
poetry
Ww
Futebol Professional Feminino
personal
essay
Gwendolyn Oxenham
Michael Anania
poetry
Three to Get Ready
Kevin Ducey
poetry
Who's Your Friend
John Peck
poetry
From the Factory in Wolfburg
Laton Carter
poetry
Patience
John Hennessy
poetry
Vengence; Calling
Matt Bondurant
poetry
Waltz; Poem for a Woman You Never Knew
Shane Seely
poetry
Elegy for Anthony Piccione
Göran Printz-Påhlson
poetry
Letters of Blood
Jesper Svenbro
poetry
New Poem of Sappho
Jude Nutter
poetry
The Centerfold; The Lover
Trent Busch
poetry
Jilted Lady, Gold-Haired Lover; Stabbing
Raymond Perreault & R.D. Skillings
story
The Bell Tolls
Of Monarchs and Hope, and Epithalamion for Ivana
and Jason at their Reconvergence
poetry
Peter Michelsen
Emily Tipps
poetry
The Bluegrass Musician's Wife
Jenny Cookson
poetry
Rotations; Part of a Greyhound Bus Trip; Necropolis
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
poetry
It Comes Forth
Moira Linehan
poetry
The Habits of Rails
Patricia Corbus
poetry
Pimpernel; One Fabulous Bird
Dennis Hinrichsen
poetry
To Keep Herself from Me; Poem in Three Voices
Sarah Bowman
poetry
Amaranth Purple in the Cup; The Magic Angle
Lon Young
poetry
Fire Lizard
From Messengers are birds and speak each letter
you and I say
poetry
Jenny Morse
Jiri Wyatt
story
Schwermer in Paris
John Kinsella
poetry
Compass
Robert Estep
poetry
Toren van Babel; Antigone in Petrograd
Donald Platt
poetry
Consolation Baptist Church
Diane Furtney
poetry
Blue Starred
Two Lovers in an Abandoned Nuclear Missile Silo While,
Unknown to Them, Biochemical Terrorist Activity Destroys
America Above; The Art of Conquest
poetry
Ryan G. Van Cleave
Ciaran Berry
poetry
Blindness; Foundlings
Short Shorts at Length
Deb Olin Unferth
story
Brevity
Trevor Dodge
story
Ransom
Carol Novack
story
A without Q with/out Self
Eckhard Gerdes
story
Blue Angelism
Kass Fleisher
story
Wedded Words
Kim Chinquee
stories
Unpacking My Stuff; Base Recreation
Paul Maliszewski
story
Prayer for a Sign of the Cross
James Doyle
poetry
The Library at Alexandria; Woman in the Red Mask
Susanne Kort
poetry
Slough; The Wisest of Virgins; 52 Tavistock Square, WC 1
Kristy Odelius
poetry
Forecast
A PETA Georgics for Giulio Romano's Lady at Her Toilet;
Negative Capability at a Roman Subway Stop
poetry
Stephen Gibson
Divine; Cold War Phonetics; Special One Time
Limited Offer
poetry
Johnny Horton
Rachel Richardson
poetry
Imagine the Hospital; Scene
Tim Kahl
poetry
Hölderlin's Garden
K.E. Duffin
poetry
Ivorybill
James S. Proffitt
poetry
Suicide Notes
Expeditionary Love Sonnet;
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
poetry
Ian Harris
Drew Blanchard
poetry
The Allerton Hotel, Chicago; Wrecking the Orpheum
Lorrie Goldensohn
poetry
On the Rue Mouffetard
Leo Jilk
poetry
Clepsydra; Forestcaped Shore
Henry Hart
poetry
Autobiography of Silence
Jennifer Tonge
poetry
The Song of Vashti; Fragment
Mike White
poetry
Godspeed; Thread
James Walton
review
Natural History
Robert Archambeau
review
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Poetry
Igor Webb
review
Passaging is his Anchorage
James Matthew Wilson
review
Poets of Our Suffering
Christopher Merrill
review
Merwin's Prose