Vol. 76 no. 3
Spring 2010
EDITOR’S NOTE
Out in the World, Robert Stewart
FICTION
The Greatest Show, Michael Downs
After Office, G. C. Young
Where I am Now, Robert Day
ESSAY
Introduction to Banana-Fiber Dolls Work for Art and Orphans,
Juventutem Mean, Gary Gildner
POETRY
The Bus of God, Maureen Seaton
Cooking with Medicine, Chad McCracken
The All-Dressed-Up-and-Going-Nowhere Ghosts, David Clewell
Kenmore Hotel, 1965, Andrea Hollander Budy
The Coffee Klatsch, Susan Grigsby
Two Poems, Daniel Lusk
Six Poems, Norman Lock
Working the Links, Alice Friman
Advice, Gary Soto
Two Poems, Brian Swann
The Death, Mark Irwin
To a Placenta, Lately Attached to My Newborn Daughter, Lance Larsen
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Cuba in Waiting, on the photographs of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Conger Beasley Jr.
New Model for Surrealism, on the poetry of Mathias Svalina, Phil Estes
Baby’s First Words, on the poetry of Dora Malech, Danielle Sellers
Something Good in the State of Denmark, on the fiction of Thomas E. Kennedy, Thomas McCarthy
Pleasantness and Pretense, on the poetry of Tara Bray, Katie Manning
ARTWORK
Photographs by Roger Pfingston
Banana-fiber doll sculptures by Gloria Baker Feinstein, Shea Gordon, Caroline Shteamer, Lou Marak, Charmalee Gunaratne, Stephanie Leedy, Philomene Bennett, Linda Lighton, Janet Kummerlein, Amy Meya, Fiona Gowin, Peregrine Honig & Tom Corbin
Watercolor, Kathryn Jankus Day