294.3/4 May - Aug 2009
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ART
Cover From Wendy's Garden [oil on panel] • Rick Farnell
7 Untitled [pencil] • Li-Ying Bao
18 Untitled [pen and ink] • Jared Rogness
22 Untitled [photograph] • Richard Calmes
27 Untitled [digital drawing] • Kate Brennan Hall
33 Untitled [photographic montage] • Sally Wilson Kueker
38 Woman in the Water [pen and ink] • Claire Stigliani
41 Untitled [photograph] • Carole Fishback
45 Untitled [pen and ink] • Joanna Barnum
52 Untitled [digital collage] • Marty Gotera
61 Woman Caught Between Bridges [digital collage] • Vince Gotera
FICTION
7 The Amazing Quizmo • Kris Rusch
18 The Obituarist • Jim Nelson
22 Near Missing • David Harris Ebenbach
27 Chasing Saint George • Stephen Murabito
33 Fracture • Jane Rawlings
38 The Green Parrot • David Shumate
41 The Helmeted Man • Robert Garner McBrearty
45 Standing Deadwood • Thomas M. Atkinson
51 The Secret Ambition of Trees • Kathryn L. Huber
61 The DNA of Secrets • Jessica Levine
NONFICTION
3 Boundless Love • Nicole Walker
6 Antimacassar • Lee Ann Roripaugh
13 Montevideo Feria • Carolyn Elkins
16 Against Simile • William Rudolph
16 Case Studies: I • Eric Torgersen
17 Meditation at Sunrise • Jacob Boyd
17 Once in the Mohave Desert • Angela Armstrong
21 Machines Were Keeping Her Alive • Jeremiah Webster
21 My Sister's Birthday • Lyn Lifshin
26 The Dictator's Mother Gives Her Testimony • Tom Jungerberg
26 Subway Tunnel Sleepers • Dan Stryk
32 The Lost Poem • Louis Phillips
32 Untitled • Simon Perchik
35 Adios • Vuong Quoc Vu
40 Cross-Dressing the Dinosaurs • Alfred Encarnacion
48 A Psalm • Eugene Gloria
49 Speaking in Tongues • Sarah Kennedy
50 Webs • Adie Kusserow
50 Death of a Daughter • Elizabeth Rees
60 Friday Night Fights • Maxine Scates
63 Shoes • Ruth Moose
66 Fireworks • Eileen Wiedbrauk
66 Solo • Faith Shearin
66 Renovation • Carrie Shippers
67 Caucus • Ana Maria Spagna
74 Hypothesis and False Premises • Jane Langley
80 Stillness as Craft in Steinbeck's "The Raid' [Past Perfect] • Grant Tracey
REVIEWS
71 Stage Effects and Staged Effects • Robert L. King
75 Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews • Vince Gotera
