Winter/Spring 2017
Men and Women in Action
Issue 43
Men and Women in Action offers another engaging selection of prose and poetry that will enthrall new and longtime readers alike. This issue will delight with prose offerings from Debra Di Blasi and Christine Estima, among others, and poetry from Mary Gilliland, Robert McNamara, and Robert Gibb. Additionally, readers will enjoy Piotr Florczyck's interview with Andrezej Franaszek. No matter your taste, this small volume delivers much.
Here is our web extra from the print edition, "Discography: The Band," by Robert Gibb.
Phillip Chen
cover art
Men of Action
Christine Estima
story
A Yelp Review of My Last Date
Kathleen O'Toole
poetry
Mi-Carême
Melissa Llanes Brownlee
story
Uncle Willy's Harbor
Todd Davis
poetry
Anthropocene
Anthropocen (audio file)
Debra Di Blasi
story
Excerpt from Moon Dog: a novella
Felicia Zamora
poetry
Same River
Andrzej Franaszek and Piotr Florczyk
interview
Andrzej Franaszek in Conversation with Piotr Florczyk
Robert McNamara
poetry
The Ossuary at Sedlec
Christopher Linforth
story
Zorana
Rebecca Dunham
poetry
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs.
Amanda Nicole Corbin
story
By the Bone
Thom Schramm
poetry
Haruspicy; Influence
Laura Lampton Scott
story
Salvage and Spoils
Jim Daniels
poetry
Self Adhesives; Changing of the City's Homeless Guards
Michael Mejia
short short
Crystal City (after the mixed-media installation by Franco Mondini-Ruiz, 2009)
Henry King
review
Kafka and Variations
Abigail Burns
short review
The Miles Between Me
Contributors
Emily Schulten
poetry
The Poem I Can't Write; El Lector
Dorsey Craft
poetry
Every Hungry Night; Confederate Memorial Day, 1997
Oleg Okhapkin translated by Josephine von Zitzewitz
poetry
Slow Summer; The Flying Dutchman
Translator Photo (Josephine von Zitzewitz)
Expanded BIo (Josephine von Zitzewitz)
Silence (audio file)
Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle
poetry
A Cento: Laudato Si'; Mallarmé Meets Valéry
Rafael Alberti translated by Carolyn Tipton
poetry
Returning on a Birthday (J. R. J.)*; Returning to a Blissful Island; Love Returns on the Balcony; Love Returns as It Once Was; Love Returns on the Sands; Love Returns at Night in the Woods
MaryEllen Beveridge
story
Needle at Sea Bottom
Virginia Konchan
poetry
Ars Poetica
Josh Kalscheur
poetry
Almost, Almost
Emily Vizzo
poetry
The Army Dark & Spread
Mary Gilliland
poetry
Fresh Coffee After You Are Gone
Fresh Coffee After You Are Gone (audio file)
Jonathan Greenhause
poetry
Last Dance
Robert Gibb
poetry
Discography:The Band
Jayne Marek
poetry
Chances; Moon Jellies; Her Feet; Cloud Solid
Floyd Skloot
poetry
The Birthday Gift
J. D. Garrick
review
Reducing the Monster: Some Ordinary Evenings with Wallace