294.5 Sep - Oct 2009
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ART
Cover So Long [colored etching] • Larry Welo
9 Untitled [pen and ink] • Joanna Barnum
10 The Wave [digital photograph] • Carole Fishback
17 Untitled [pen and ink] • Claire Stigliani
25 Untitled [pencil] • Li-Ying Bao
FICTION
10 Girl on a Float • Brian Bedard
17 Dirty Martinis • Ron Savage
25 The Cop, the Hooker and the Ridealong • Julie Brickman
NONFICTION
3 Flush • Michelle Lanzoni
5 The Snake in the Crawlspace • Shari Wagner
9 Let Me Not Shame You • Roy Yehudah Ringel
37 Confessions of a Carnivore • Brian Jay Stanley
48 America’s Curfew Debate [Past Perfect] • Heather Olsen
POETRY
14 Samokolnica / Wheelbarrow • Aleš Šteger [trans. Brian Henry]
15 Nightmare • B. Z. Niditch
15 Why I Didn’t Write That Poem You Asked For • Bill Meissner
16 Gradual • Pablo Miguel Martínez
16 My Life in The Middle Ages • G. C. Waldrep
21 My Mother Wants Lambchops, Steaks, Lobster, Roast Beef • Lyn Lifshin
21 Iris • John Bensko
21 Ophelia • Brian Daldorph
22 El Bayú • Sandra M. Castillo
22 Storage • Faith Shearin
22 Radical Proposition • Lisabeth Burton
23 Attack the Ball • Rustin Larson
23 Bardo • Charlotte Pence
24 The Queer Retablo Series: Butch-Femme Dialogue • Verónica Reyes
24 Cuchifrito • José L. Otero
35 My Advice to New Fathers • Todd James Pierce
35 In the Sky Above Los Angeles • Peter Serchuk
36 Deathstain • Janaka Stucky
36 Advice on Ants • Gary Fincke
REVIEWS
40 Women Almost in Control • Robert L. King
44 Crosscuts: Brief Film Reviews • Grant Tracey
46 Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews • Vince Gotera
