297.4 Fall Issue 2012

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This is our thirteenth end-of-year number. We want to take a moment to thank all our contributors over the years for helping us steward this national treasure. Okay, maybe, as Marlon Brando in The Wild One put it, no, “that’s cornball style,” but we mean it sincerely. In 2015, we’ll be celebrating our 200th anniversary and are planning a festival to take place here in Cedar Falls. Details to follow. Hope to see many of our readers, contributors, and followers here. Other events will also go on, for example, a shindig at the 2015 convention of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs.

In this issue, we are celebrating Native American Heritage Month by publishing Native poets Anita Endrezze and J. P. Dancing Bear as well as reviewing books by Native writers.

We hope you enjoy our usual eclectic mix of art and literature.

ART

Cover Fall [mixed media on paper] • Gary Kelley

8 Untitled [pen and ink] • Maike Plenzke

17 The Career Handler [ink on mylar] • Daryl Alexsy

27 Untitled [pen and ink] • Claire Stigliani

29 Untitled [pen and ink] • Claire Stigliani

FICTION

8 Other People’s Children • Perle Besserman

17 The Career Handler • Joseph Celizic

27 The Wind, It Blows Forever • Paul Griner

29 Mum On the Rocks • Paul Griner