Vol. 80 nos. 3 & 4
Spring & Summer 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE
How and Why, Robert Stewart
FICTION
How to Live in the Midwest, Katherine Karlin
Scars, Jim Barnes
ESSAY
The Republic of Texas, David McDannald
Animal Rescue Afighanistan, J. Malcolm Garcia
Bomb, Daniel Lusk
Peace and War, Edward Hoagland
Just Call Me Lucky, Cay Antoinette Bahnmiller: An Aesthetic Scavenger in Detroit, Beth Aviv
Through a Glass Darkly, Sheila Kohler
How James Joyce Changed My Life, Thomas E. Kennedy
POETRY
Refrigerator, Fleda Brown
Omens, Danusha Lameris
Three Poems, Ted Kooser
Thinking of Our Shame at the Gas Pump, Major Jackson
Rabbit or Duck, George Gurley
Five Notes From War, H.C. Palmer
Letter to Jackson: Water Garden, Zoe Barnstone-Clark
Firenze Pietà, Mark Irwin
Three Poems, Gerals Stern
Two Poems, William Trowbridge
Meanwhile You While He, Wyatt Townley
INTERVIEW
Introduction to Dennis Finnell,
Angular Honesty, conducted by Robert Stewart, Dennis Finnell
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
“The News From Iceland,” on the short stories of Ólafur Gunnarsson., Catherine Browder
“Uncle Danny Returns to America,” a review of Dan Turell poems on CD read by Thomas E. Kennedy, Robert Stewart
“No End of Names,” on the poetry of Willis Barnstone, David Lee Garrison
“Context with a Twist,” on the poetry of Jeff Friedman, Walter Bargen
“Comparisons to James Joyce,” on the prose of Jacob M. Appel, Anika Gupta
“A Still Point in the Shifting World,” on the poetry of Donald Levering, Kirsten Bosnak
ARTWORK
Artwork by Janet Kummerlein & Cay Bahnmiller
Photographs by Judy Ray