291.1 Jan - Feb 2006

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ART
Cover [Mixed media] • Sterling Hundley
12 [Digital illustration] • Ashleigh Ford
16 [Digital illustration] • Alex Gates
25 [Digital illustration] • Amye McInnerney
FICTION
12 Fighting Fish • Babak Govan
16 Earning Money All Her Own • Valerie Fioravanti
25 8 • Scott Solomon
NONFICTION
3 In My Orchard • Hilary Masters
5 Pallbearer • Joyce Dyer
35 Crabbing • Rich Hartlaub
48 The Golden Age of Fraternity [Past Perfect]• Jim O’Loughlin
POETRY
4 Particulars • Knute Skinner
4 Words • Bill Brown
11 Within a Block of My Apt. • Sarah J. Gardner
14 Listening to Willem Squeal While Django Reinhart Attempts to Remind Me of the Existence of All Things • Carol Ann Davis
14 Terro Ant Killer • Benjamin Scott Grossberg
15 Heart. Wood. • Eric Torgersen
15 Lost Sounds • Janet Landman
22 Rhinestone • Bradford Tice
23 Bread • Richard Levine
23 A Night in Fort Dodge • Jeffery Friedman
24 A Doctor’s Story • David Ray
24 Preoperative Sutra • Glen A. Mazis
30 Pastoral by Frank Gehry • James Harms
31 Storyville as the Local Frog Pond • Dan Stryk
31 Beatitude • Richard Marx Weinraub
31 Sirens, New York City • Douglas Goetsch
32 My Grandfather’s Altar • Brian Komei Dempster
33 Fish Pond Revisited • William F. Dougherty
33 The Post-Surrealist • Dick Allen
34 The Most Selfish Desire • Mark Harrison
36 Chinese Bride, 1999 • Maija Rhee Devine
39 Note on Carmen Miranda’s Gonna Want Her Hat Back • Nathan Jones
40 Key • Ryan G. Van Cleave
43 Blood Count • William Ford
43 Fruit Salad • Anne Silver
Plagiarizing Moonlight • Kelli Russell Agodo
REVIEWS
44 Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews • Vince Gotera
45 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
MISCELLANY
46 Contributors