Issue IV, 1998-1999

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F I C T I O N

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Honeymoon by Jonathan Rubinstein

Goths by Douglas Thornsjo

Twelve Angry Steps by Paul A. Toth

The Zionist by Oren Shafir

Out Into a Quiet River by Lynn Kozlowski

Mating by RoseMarie London

How To Breathe Underwater by Irene Ziegler

Wet Season by Aaron Baker

Tanner Hops, Coyotes Interrupt Us by Alex Keegan

Bleeding George by Mark Long

Oh, Josephine by Dennis Must

Optimist by Paul Oratofsky

My Girlfriend by Victoria Bazeley

Dinuba by Amanda McPherson

Elton John by Elissa Alford (part of the Special Feature: Fame)

Side Step is Mainstream by Thomas Allbaugh

A Good American an excerpt from a novel by Jennie Litt

Transform Your Suffering Into Happiness by Jodi Bloom

The Dissolution of the Monarchy by Joseph Coroniti

Flying Monkeys by Geoff Schmidt

Labor Dolorosa by Lalitha Khanna

Because He Wouldn't Let Me Touch His Body by Julien Ryner

Heron by Colin S. Whitlock

The Boy In The Wall by Roger Vaillancourt

The Exam by James DiGiovanna

By The Seaside (in English and Turkish) by Faruk Ulay

The World's Greatest Undiscovered Fastball by Robert Brewer

Waiting With The Men by Tim Connor

Marbles On The Loose by Charlie Dickinson

Chevette Dreams by Len Kruger

The Vision by Daniel R. Vollaro

The Court Dress by Anjana Basu

Vinny's Deal by Vincent Corvino

A Day in the Life by Vanessa Dodge

Flying by Elizabeth Glass

The Blooding by D. G. Grace

Going to Glory by Thomas J. Hubschman

A Moveable Feast by Stanley Jenkins

Jack Hancock's War by Alex Keegan

My Little Cousin by Norma Kitson

Balzac Takes the Stanford-Binet IQ Test by Thomas Lisk

Some Observations Regarding Indoor Human Flight and An Illustrative Anecdote of a Sexual Nature by Paul A. Toth

 

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P O E T R Y

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tokaido and
waiting for you to come home
by Bruce Harris Bentzman

Sister Mary Algebra,
Me and Me,
Reading by the Brass Lamp and
Marilyn
by Lyn Coffin

Graves
by Tom Hartman

Genius
by Gray Jacobik

Gennady Goes to School and
Second Soul
by Halvard Johnson

Insomnia and
Grand Isle
by Jamie O'Halloran

Between the Poems the Vandals Go
by Alan Michael Parker

Kaczynski the Poet
by Scott Poole

Letters to the Muse,
Lava and
The Ghostly Saints
by Tad Richards

My Daughter Dante Paradiso
by Robert Sward

The 3:15,
Washing the Darlings,
Vandal, and
Senior Picture, 1971 by Pamela Gemin

Iowa Burial
and Dinner at the President's House by Edward Holgate

The Artist,
Very Old Man Rolling Down a Hill,
and The Drowned Pool by Michael McFee

Disavowal by Wesley McNair

Mother May I by Sue Payne

Cone Head
and Snag by Trevor Reeves

In the Garden
and The Screen by Barry Spacks

Special Feature: Fame
     Blues for George Gershwin by Lewis Turco
     Three by Craig Chaffin
     Remembering Herman Munster by Penny Cagan
     Botticelli Exposed! by Jackie Dishner
     Performer by Doug McClellan
     Roy Cohn by Susan Terris
     A Public Service Announcement by T. Dunn
     Two by by Marin Sorescu
     Two by Ruth Daigon
     Two by Colin Morton
     Lesser Shadows by Robert Priest

Open Beer Stores, Running Busses, Marigolds
Small Miracles on Police Station Lawns,
Lay My Burden Down, and
Heaven by Aaron Anstett

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,
Loving You in Flemish, and
English Flavors by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

This Waiting by Heather Burns

Night Games,
All Souls Day, and
70 Below Wind Chill by Susan Firer

Obsidian by Jennifer Lesh

My Father, Holding a White Snake, Somewhere in France, 1945 by Dinty Moore

Touch by Peter Munro

A Day in Boyland by Jessy Randall

Self-Portrait at Eighty with Twelve-String by Kate Sontag

Sad Sack,
Honey Wagon: An Historical Poem, and
American Primitive II: Bugs, 1956 by William Trowbridge

Needles and
On Time by Ronald Wallace

Death & Telephones by David Weinstock

 

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PREVIEWS, REVIEWS, NONFICTION, INTERVIEWS

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Intravenous Drip by Natasha Waxman

A Conversation With Steve Erickson Interview by Rob Trucks

Bronx Zoo Interview with writer Bill Fitzhugh, by Jay Fernandez and Peter McCarthy

Twilit Ragas... Robert Siegle on Michael Joyce

Out of the Past an essay by E.M. Altman

Funeral Games from Billy Boy, a recently completed novel by Thomas J. Hubschman

from Bloodroot, a recently completed novel by Aaron Even

An Interview with Norma Kitson by Richard Cumyn

Book Launch in Victoria, B.C. by Robert Sward

An Alchemy in the Bones by William Reichard

From Music of the Inner Lakes by Roger Sheffer

Mistaken Identity and
Self-Improvement Poetry by Tony Hoagland from Donkey Gospel

Ice by Josip Novakovich from Salvation and Other Disasters

From Central Square by George Packer

Summer Reviews A collection of book reviews from Summer, 1998

Venus & Don Juan, Poems by Carol Frost. Reviewed by Fiona Drayton Russell

Neighbor Blood, Poems by Richard Frost. Reviewed by Fiona Drayton Russell

Tanzania on Tuesday: Writing by American Women Abroad, Edited by Kathleen Coskran and C.W. Truesdale. Reviewed by Beth Blaney

Crazy For Trying, a novel by Joni Rodgers. Reviewed by Hannah McCouch

Melba: A Family Memoir by Pamela Vestey Reviewed by June Owens

 

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MULTIMEDIA

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The Rocket Project

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

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Correspondences

Multimedia by T. Dunn and Doug DuCap

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