Summer/Fall 2014
Listen Here
Issue 38
Listen Here offers up bountiful pleasures for lovers of literature. Engaging prose by David Matlin, Melissa Fraterrigo, and D. E. Steward, to name a few, will entice the reader's eye and mind. In addition, Issue 38 presents compelling poetry from Robert Gibb, Herbert Woodward Martin, and Nancy Naomi Carlson, among others. Augmented by several thoughtful reviews, this issues promises an orchestra of delights.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, Navigating the Other '60s: The Publishing World and the Post-Sixty Writer—a panel discussion presented by William O'Rourke, David Matlin, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and Valerie Sayers at the 2014 AWP conference.
Gail Schneider
cover art
Right Ear (front cover); Heart (back cover)
David Matlin
story
One Way or Another
Herbert Woodward Martin
poetry
Enigma: The Unanswered Question; On Reading Rita Dove's “Parsley”
Nancy Naomi Carlson
poetry
Yom Kippur; Infusion of Violets
Mark Brazaitis
story
The Drive
Eva Mary Hooker
poetry
Mantra; Saltbush
Sandra Kohler
poetry
Timers; Skies
Douglas Trevor
story
The Program in Profound Thought
Robert Gibb
poetry
Douglas Cooper's University Center Mural (1995-1996), Carnegie Mellon University; The Gorsons in the Spanierman Gallery; Pittsburgh Photographs
William Kelley Woolfitt
poetry
Inside the Boarded-Up Slaughterhouse; Internees at Manzanar, 1942 (ii)
Richard Burgin
story
The House Visitor
Noy Holland
fiction
Nine Short Shorts
Peter Riley
poetry
Milia
John Matthias
essay
At Large: On Being Asked for a (Peaceful) War Poem
Daniel Morris
review
What is an Archive in a Digital Era?
Christopher Merrill
review
The Last Traveler
Francisco Aragón
review
Poem as Prism
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
poetry
Conversion, Lake Virginia
Melissa Fraterrigo
story
Fredonia
Robert Levy
poetry
Earthward
René Char translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
poetry
Two Translations
Brian Swann
nonfiction
Considerations Times Five: Chimeras, Debt, Euclid, Lives, Not Good Enough
Graham Hillard
poetry
Pope Calixtus III Excommunicates Halley's Comet: Rome, 1456
Author Bio, Commentary & Weblinks
Pope Calixtus III Excommunicates Hailey's Comet: Rome, 1456 (audio)
Julie Marie Wade
poetry
When My Mother Learns I Am a Lesbian
Josh DuBose
story
The Homeland
Aidan Semmens
poetry
Aldgate East
D. E. Steward
nonfiction
Magae
Septambro (audio)
Derek Beaven
poetry
USAF Ipswich
William Logan
poetry
Summer 1962, More or Less
David Matlin, William O'Rourke, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and Valerie Sayers
AWP panel
Navigating the Other ’60s: The Publishing World and the Post-Sixty Writer
Eric Powell
review
The Poetry of Uncertainty
John Dillon
review
Here is One Hand and Here is Another
Editors Select
Carrie Etter, Barry Goldensohn, Nancy Kassell, Nathaniel Tarn, Corinne Demas, Van Kirby with David Hoppe, Samuel Hazo, Dana Roeser, Kelcey Parker, Bruce Dancis, Brian Swann, Floyd Skloot, David James Poissant
short reviews
Contributors