Vol. 78 no. 1
Fall 2011-2012
EDITOR’S NOTE
Cry of the Renegade, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Backward, Angie Kim
My Hand is My Cup, Phong Nguyen
Free Kittens, Castle Freeman, Jr.
ESSAY
Queens of Pain, Clarissa Hay
The Murdered Poet, Thomas E. Kennedy
The Firecracker Poet, Raymond B. Craib
On Hearing Hans Joas Lecutre About the Soul, Shifra Sharlin
A Midwestern Poetics: Selections from a Journal, B.H. Fairchild
POETRY
Six Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Three Poems, Janice N. Harrington
Trimming Cactus, David Ray
Four Poems, Afaa Michael Weaver
Three Poems, Gary Gildner
So This is Sex, Randall R. Freisinger
You Bring Out the Gringo in Me, Paul Aviles
Newboy, William Trowbridge
A Toast to Grief, Nadine Sabra Meyer
Two Poems, Hugh Fox
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Always on My Mind, on the debut story collection of Siobhan Fallon, Catherine Browder
A Gathering of Friends, on the poems of the late poet Ai, Phil Estes
Tough Nicknames, on the poets in the Douglas County Jail, Al Ortolani
Last Among Winners, on the poetry of Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Katie Manning
At the World’s Frigid Edges, on the poems of Elizabeth Bradfield, Evan McGarvey
ARTWORK
Photographs by Margo Berdeshevsky
Sculptures by John Salvest