292.3/4 May-Aug 2007

Literary Magazine, North American Review

 

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ART

Cover   “Cotton Field Holler” [oil on canvas]Gary Kelley

3   Untitled [pencil and charcoal]Gary Kelley

8   Untitled [pen and ink] • Jared Rogness​

16   Untitled [digital image] • Amanda Chan

21   Untitled [photographic montage] • Marty Gotera​

28   Untitled [graphic software] • Mandy Conway

33   Untitled [pencil] • Kim Behm​

43   Untitled [photographic montage] • S. A. Wilson Kueker​

51   Untitled [pencil] • Joseph Podlesnik​

59   Untitled [pencil] • Li-Ying Bao

 

FICTION

3   If on Thursday the Crows• Timothy Walsh

8   Maybe Someone Should Call the Comodores • Mark Holden

16   Free Ham • Maria-Helene Bertin

21   Something They Hadn’t Counted On • Marc Dickinson

28   My Doppelganger’s ArmsPolly Buckingham

33   The Kissing DiseaseEleanor Henderson

43   Tiger Lilies • Gary Gildner

51   Touching Dummies • Joan Menefee

59   pink-haired.alt/pix_girls • G.W. Clift

 

NONFICTION

62   Cranium • Laurie Lovrak

63   My Brother/The OtherJean Feraca

71   Building Boats • Barry Targan

84   Out of The Jungle [Past Perfect] • Susan Roberts-Dobie

 

POETRY

7   Women’s Day at the Bath • Christine stewart-Nuñez

15   Wing in Restoration • Avery K. Slater

20   Anatomy • Christopher Bakken

30   Congenital • Damon McLaughlin

41   Hippocampus • Sean Nevin

42   Alabama Air • Katia Zalkind

42   Love Poem to Phở • Mông-Lan

46   The Let Down • Ronald Wallace

50   Insect • Brian Swann

52   More Than EverTimothy Liu

57   Strains from a National Anthem • Michael Spence

61   Burning My First Communion Dress • David Romtved

61   July, the Sun, and Thundering Storms • Scott Owens

62   Horses of Famine, Horses of War • Karen An-Hwei Lee

74   Sushi Chad Davidson

74   Lull • Robyn Sarah

77   Bur Song • Shanna Powlus Wheeler

 

REVIEWS

75   Reenactments • Robert L. King

80   Synecdoche • Vince Gotera

81   Crosscuts • Grant Tracey