294.2 Mar - Apr 2009

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ART
Cover "Three Graces' [oil on canvas] • Gary Kelley
15 Untitled [ink on paper] • Gary Kelley
20 Untitled [ink on paper] • Gary Kelley
25 Untitled [ink on paper] • Gary Kelley
FICTION
15 Drunk • Catherine Zobal Dent
20 Rosebud • Kevin Allardice
25 Cigarettes and Anklebones • Rachel MacFarland
NONFICTION
34 Some People Who May Appear in My Next Story • Donald Anderson
36 Kurt Vonnegut's Cast Party • Jerome Klinkowitz
39 A Fair Flight in a Neutral Location • Brandon Lingle
48 Parents On (the) Line [Past Perfect] • Jim Davis
POETRY
3 The Dead Cause • Travis Mossotti
4 Thirteen • Konrad Stump
6 In the Kitchen • Claire Millikin
7 The Boys • Elinor Benedict
7 Demolition • Gaye McKenney
8 The Unbroken Code • Michael Spence
9 Eternity Hotel • Roy Bentley
9 Leave of Lucre • Phillip Dacey
10 The Cormorant • Rebecca Foust
10 What if Wile E. Coyote had Caught the Road Runner • Rich Hanson
11 A Matter of Loyalty: Question #28, A Nisei's Response • Sharon Hastimoto
12 Failure of Imagination in the Prairie Grove Cemetery • Michael Hudson
12 Over the Rainbow • Michael Kriesel
13 How to Cackle Like a Wicked Stepmother • Devi Sen Laskar
13 Fall Creek • Shawn Pittard
14 You talk of forgiveness • Shari Robinson Mills
18 Craftsmanship • Carrie Shippers
18 Pleasant Weather in Cornwall • Neil Shepard
19 The Crazed Surface of a Dish • Erinn Batykefer
19 FUBAR • Charles Harper Webb
24 Kitchen • Chrissy Kolaya
24 Stripper Names • Angela Armstrong
29 More Than • Gwyn McVay
29 Living in Seattle is Like Having a Beautiful Wife Who Is Always Sick • Jeff Crandall
29 The Space Traveler's Aisling • Benjamin S. Grossberg
30 From the Dishwater-Lorraine • Gary Dop
31 Being Jewish in a Small Town • Lyn Lifshin
31 Rear Window: What Lisa Knew • Kim Bridgeford
31 Goodbye, Trouble • Kristen Tracy
23 Strange Communions • Kristin Berkey-Abott
33 Ocean- Going Seagulls • Terry Savoie
33 Vermeer's Nails • R. Steve Benson
35 Slurring • Brian Komei Dempster
38 Hailstones • Tony Tracey
43 Scapegoat • Jeremiah Webster
REVIEWS
44 Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews • Vince Gotera
45 Crosscuts: Brief Film Reviews • Grant Tracey