Winter/Spring 2014
What's Up
Issue 37
What's Up delivers a literary feast for the connoisseur. Readers will enjoy outstanding prose from David Black, Douglas Silver, and Corinne Demas, among others. Additionally, Issue 37 features wonderful poetry by Michael Anania, Peter Marcus, Lisa Ampleman, and Daniel Tobin, to name just a few. This issue of NDR promises many enjoyments for our valued audience.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, David Black's What Would it Take.
Robert Kareka
cover/art
Muddy Feet; Amoco
Douglas Silver
story
Oklahoma City
Alfred Corn
poetry
Face; Hanging Out to Dry; In a Bottle
Brian Swann
poetry
The Net of Indra; A Little Leaky Roof
Renée E. D'Aoust
essay
Harry & Dancer
Daniel Tobin
poetry
From The Most Ancient Light in the Most Ancient Sky
Abdourahman Waberi translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
poetry
Acacia; elegy for a fly; Yesterday's Tales
Nancy Naomi Carlson Extended Bio
John Fenlon Hogan
poetry
Thurifer; Not Enough
Anthony Opal
poetry
God proctors the exam, does a headstand; Grace of the dog's white pawed feet is the first
Ana Blandiana translated by Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea
poetry
Ties; Molecules of Calcium
Corinne Demas
story
The Clock
Todd Davis
poetry
At the Raptor Rehabilitation Center; Drouth
Michael Hettich
poetry
The Harvest; The Lesson; To Blow Away, Like Mist
Michael Perkins
memoir
Beats & Bronk
John Matthias
essay
At Large: The Music of Poetry and the Poetry of Music
Nick Ripatrazone
review
Evangelizing Flannery
Mark Scroggins
review
Resignation and Independence
Editors Select
Craig Nova, Joan Silber, Kristen Iversen, Robert Rebein, Courtney McDermott, Holly Thompson. Mark Brazaitis, Cris Mazza, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Conor O'Callaghan, Kathleen Aponick, Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Blas Falconer, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Ciaran Carson, Aidan Semmens, Christopher Merrill, Richard Burgin
short reviews
Michael Anania
poetry
A Most Familiar and Infallible Rule: Four Austin Pieces;
A Transcription in Passing
David Black
story
What Would It Take
Lisa Ampleman
poetry
Quarry; Pyrite
Richard Berengarten
poetry
Biting Through
R.D. Skillings
memoir
M'dear
Peter Marcus
poetry
The Same Dust; Pagan at Garni; Scales, Sevastopol
Gloria Whelan
story
The Poisoned Chalice
Harry Mark Petrakis
memoir
A Tale of Two Wives
Daniel Donaghy
poetry
Pigeon Man, Grafton Street; What Cement is Made of
Michael Perkins
poetry
The Gospel of His Life as Written by His Enemies;
I Contain Multitudes; Patterns
Jarda Cervenka
stories
Three Shorter Short Stories
Rumit Pancholi
poetry
Bifurcate at L'Enfant
John J. Clayton
story
Whispers
Daniel Morris
review
Tech support says "Dead Don Walking": Tradition, the Internet,
and Individual Talent
John Sitter
review
Poems of Our Climate: American Ecopoetry
Norman Finkelstein
review
The New ARK