294.6 Nov - Dec 2009
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ART
Cover Christmas Truce [mixed media] • Gary Kelley
10 Untitled [ink wash] • Jess Fink
18 Untitled [pencil] • Li-Ying Bao
25 Untitled [watercolor] • Carole Fishback
FICTION
10 The Tender Side • R.A. Haynes
18 Anadromous • Sharon Hashimoto
25 Preacher • Thomas Fox Averill
NONFICTION
3 Questionable Paternity • Caroline Sutton
6 I left work early to buy snow tires • Eric Zencey
34 My Father, More or Less • Jerome Klinkowitz
40 Compostmodernism [Past Perfect] • Catherine Zobal Dent
POETRY
16 Medicine for Night Spots • Jean-Mark Sens
17 Through • James D. Autio
17 The First Seizure • Adam Schuitema
23 Perspective • Brian Swann
23 Cleaning House • Scott Owens
24 Measuring Myself • Tom Lukas
24 A Postcolonial Irony • Tiffany Midge
29 Last Call • Thomas Brush
29 Thanksgiving • Bill Graeser
30 Koht'aene Ts'akut'eh / Anger Management • John E. Smelcer
30 Tsa Ts'utsaede / Beaver Story • John E. Smelcer
31 Rapture • Tim Bascom
32 A Bag of Ears • Roy Bentley
32 An Overdue Thank-You Card for my Eighth Birthday • David Wagoner
33 Ode to My Messiah Complex • Fredrick Zydek
36 Cejas • Susanne Kort
REVIEWS
37 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
38 Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews • Vince Gotera