291.6 Nov - Dec 2006

Literary Magazine, North American Review

 

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ART

Cover   [mixed media] • Anita Kuntz

10   [pencil] • Kim Behm

​24   [graphite] • Gary Kelley 

31   [pencil] • Li-Ying Bao

 

FICTION

10   Strange Things Can Happen Around Midnight • James T. McGowan 

24   Places Down Below • Jack Smith 

31   Episode • Robert Garner McBrearty 

 

NONFICTION

3   Wyoming Girl • Pamela A. Galbreath

8   Scattered Inconveniences • Jerald Walker

40   New Year in Petersberg • Elena Gorokhova 

49   "Will it do to say anything more about Chaucer?" • Richard J. Utz

 

POETRY

9   The Missing • Faith Shearin 

15   My life as a pomegranate • Kevin Berland

20   From "A Prayer's Lost Language: The Mission Diaries of Michael of Fargo" • Daniel Westover 

21   Bon Voyage • Alan Soldofsky 

22   I'm Charlie Tuna • Jason Koo

28   A Way Without Words • Laurie Blauner

29   June Porter • Tony Trigilio

30   Civil Aviation Code • Cindy King

36   Cocktails • Maxine Scates

37   Trumpets Creeper Variations • William Wright

38   Weaning Electra • Adrian Belvins

39   Woman Singing in Church • Fransesca Bell 

39   Neck of the Woods • F. Daniel Blasi

42   He Whistled • Daniel Blasi 

45   Ghazal for my Mother • Jackie Bartley 

47   Linings • Elisabeth Murawski

 

REVIEWS

48   Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey 

49   Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • Vince Gotera