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   RhinestoneBradford 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

2   From the Editors 

46   Contributors