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Winter/Spring 2008

Certain Criticism/ Uncertain Times

Issue 25

Seth Abramson

Dream of a Variable Surface; Moses Gets Central Air;
Maenad Tearing Orpheus

poetry

 

Kevin Ducey

poetry

Coil Slab or Helix

 

Angela Burchett

poetry

Cover Story

 

Evan Kuhlman

story

End Times

 

Andrew Shields

poetry

Through, In

 

Moira Egan

poetry

Saphics in Snow

 

Cynthia Sowers

poetry

Mute Remains; In Chains; Dialogue on Asceticism

 

Michael Heller

poetry

The Visible

 

Michael Harper

poetry

Father (A Parable of Riches); Manhattan Beach

 

Floyd Skloot

poetry

Hardy at the Harvest Supper

 

Corinne Demas

story

Last Stars

 

Samuel Amadon

poetry

No News is the News I Need

April 11, 1778: Aaaran; October 8, 1789: Rachel Wall;
January 31, 1945: Private Eddie D. Slovik

poetry

 

Jill McDonough

Weblinks

 

Peter Nohrnberg

poetry

First Settlers; Decisions; Open and Shut

 

John J. Ronan

poetry

On the Oubangui; Dying Aside

 

June Frankland Baker

poetry

At the Center, At Night; Southern Indiana, in the Thirties

 

Russell Working

story

The Sky Ranch

 

Jeff Schiff

poetry

Misery; What the Chamulan Dead Know

 

Wayne Miller

poetry

A History of War

Decembros

poetry

 

D.E. Steward

Glow-box

poetry

 

John Peck

 

Dimitri Anastasopoulos

story

Signs of Intrauterine Life: An Expectant Father's Notebook

Wyclif Places Himself, His Room within the Ten Categories
of Essential Being; A Visit to Lutterworth

poetry

 

Thom Satterlee

 

Dana Roeser

poetry

The Fire of London

The Matter of Pears; 4 A.M.

poetry

 

Mira Rosenthal

Stories Abuelitas Tell; Secret of the Seer

story

 

Herbert Leibowitz

biography

The Lion in Winter

 

Jiri Wyatt

poetry

There Is No End to the Things You Can't Have

Tenants of the House

 

Charles Simic

poetry

At the Jeweler's; Eternities

Impromptu; From Above it Looks Just the Same;
Last Impression

poetry

 

Carmen Firan

 

Mary Jo Bang

poetry

No Exit

 

Jason Tandon

poetry

Flight; What We Burned

 

Nin Andrews

poetry

Five Prose Poems

 

Richard Deming

essay

Nathaniel Tarn's Poetics of Totalities

 

Colleen Abel

poetry

Epistemology

 

Kelli Russell Agodon

poetry

What the Universe Makes of Lingerie

Contingencies; [Some Words From That Letter];
The Truth about the Dead

poetry

 

Nancy Kuhl

The Sea Clots Whitely After the Swell, Claws Sand;
Conversion; Letter from the Afternoon

poetry

 

K.A. Hays

weblinks

The Antikythera Mechanism;
Dream of Your House, Demolished

poetry

 

Chris Ransick

Before Huron

poetry

 

Khaled Mattawa

 

Joseph A. Buttigieg

essay

Aesthetic Pleasures in the Company of Edward W. Said

 

Julie Marie Wade

poetry

The Fire-Eater

 

Lea Graham

poetry

Crush #37; Crush #90; 3 Crushes, Worcester

The Pax Americana Gallery

poetry

 

Frank Rogaczewski

The Kitchen Witch;
Of the Future Tense Our Genitals Wore Helmets

poetry

 

Karyna McGlynn

 

Lynn Pattison

poetry

If I Had to Describe It; Simple

Not Knowing What He's Missing;
From Berthe Morisot: Retrospective

poetry

 

Beth Ann Fennelly

weblinks

Why Six Objects Never Rhyme

poetry

 

Charles Tisdale

Transfusion

 

Daniel Weissbort

memoir

Ted Hughes and Translation

 

Jeanne Stauffer-Merle

poetry

Adonis Sleeping at Storm King; Negative Space

Negative Space (audio)

Matt Shears

poetry

A Sighting; A River, A Little Town

 

Mary Gilliland

poetry

Quarantine in the Borders; Resistance

 

Adam Day

poetry

The Gap; Three Keys

 

Amy Spade

poetry

Conveyed

 

Patricia Giragosian

poetry

Kew

 

Kass Fleisher

essay

Truth in Advertising

The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water;
Portrait of Dolly

poetry

 

James Doyle

 

Debora Greger

poetry

In a Bowel of Dust; In Limbo

Turning Our Calendar to the Photo for March;
One Day of the War

poetry

 

June Frankland Baker

 

Moira Linehan

poetry

Postcard from the 20th Arrondissement

 

Michael S. Begnal

poetry

Shade; Red Horse

 

R.D. Skillings

story

The Weather

 

Anne Heide

poetry

Greenwax; Alone

 

Christian Teresi

poetry

Come Back Again; Everything Lost Can Be Found

 

Rebecca Dunham

poetry

Elegy for Mrs. Danvers; Negative, Yellow

The Burial of an Emperor;
Summa Theologiae: The Way God Moves the Will

poetry

 

Jonathan Barrett

 

Alex MacLeod

story

The Loop

 

Michael Anania

poetry

Casa de la Torre, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

 

John Peck

poetry

1618

 

Mike Smith

poetry

From Multiverse

 

Peter Michelson

review

Gadfly to the Era

 

James Walton

review

Iron Age

Ken Kalfus's Terrorist Attack on the
Absurd Metaphysics of 9/11 Grief

review

 

Anis Shivani

 

Linda Kinnahan

review

Perception and the Visual Lyric

 

Jay Neugeboren

review

Through a Glass Darkly: A Note on Bergman's Classicism

 

Lea Graham

review

Keeping Time

 

Renée E. D'Aoust

review

Anxious Pleasures: A Book Review After Olsen

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