299.4 Fall Issue 2014
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Our year-end issue highlights Native American Month with a full review by Anne Drolet, an omnibus review by J. D. Schraffenberger in our Synecdoche column, and poems by Heid E. Erdrich and J. P. Dancing Bear. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the “Great War” and we recognize the contributions of our veterans in a poem by WWII vet Herbert Engelhardt.
ART
Cover Nevermore [acrylic on masonite] • Dan Vanderhoof
8 Punk [graphite, ink, digital] • John F. Malta
13 She Unraveled the Whole Thing [ink and digital] • Catherine Byun
22 Ordinary Things [mixed media, digital] • Anthony Tremmaglia
29 Poet [ink and digital] • Clay Rodery
37 Ferns [digital] • Jeannie Phan
FICTION
8 Fatherhoodlum • John Burke
13 Like Snowflakes • Julia Lynn Rubin
22 Ordinary Things • Gloria L. Huang
29 The Poet Carlucci • Mike Antosia
37 The Plant World • Rachel Joseph
NONFICTION
3 Skinwalk • Brooke Wonders
5 Under the Pictographs • Jerry McGahan
42 From Makhachkala with Love • Jonathan Starke
50 Are There No Absolutes?: Slavery in 1850 [Past Perfect] • Grant Veeder
POETRY
7 Current • Nate Pillman
7 Robinsonade • Denise Duhamel
11 Mississippi Zephyr • Richard Boada
12 Visitation • Jimmie Cumbie
17 Downstream • Gary Fincke
18 Exodus 20 • Thomas Alan Holmes
19 Red Star • Heid E. Erdrich
19 The Day After Father’s Day • J. P. Dancing Bear
20 Excerpt from “Rehab by Rounds” • Joseph P. Wood
20 Heaven Map • Debra Nystrom
21 Sushi Date: A Demon at the Floodgates • Robin Richardson
21 Love Poem to my Kidney • Emily Schulten
26 Navigating defeat • Kate Lutzner
26 Fire Season • Carol V. Davis
27 split decisions (a love poem) • Ed Coletti
27 Thesis Statements • Gerry LaFemina
27 The Clash Triggers My Old Obsession With Loyalty • Liv Lansdale
27 Gently Gently • Herbert Engelhardt
28 Letter to Half a Lifetime Ago • Jennifer Perrine
35 Channel Inn Balcony • Christina Seymour
35 Here Be Monsters • Charles Harper Webb
36 Last Visit • Amie Whittemore
36 Face It • Arthur Vogelsang
REVIEWS
45 A New Totem of Presence and Liberty • Anne Drolet
46 Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • J. D. Schraffenberger
47 Paeans: Brief Book Reviews • Anne Drolet
48 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
MISCELLANY
2 From the Editors • NAR Staffers Out in the World
49 Contributors
51 Annual Index • Volume 299 • 2014
