294.6 Nov - Dec 2009

Literary Magazine, North American Review

 

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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