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Issue 2: spring/summer 2006

Fiction

  • Rachel West Carpenter – Travel Story
  • Tony D’Souza – Magic Muffler
  • Willem Elsschott – Will-o’-the-Wisp
  • Allan Gurganus – “We, of Weedland”
  • Sheila Kohler – The Golden Dove
  • Padgett Powell – Did We Party Last Night?
  • Liz Prato – Underneath the Magnolia Tree When Magnolias Were in Bloom
  • Jarret Rosenblatt – Rhythmically

Nonfiction

  • James Lord – Giacometti’s Goddess
  • Robert Schultz – The Ephemera
  • Cynthia Zarin – Real Estate

Poetry

  • Jennifer Atkinson – The Black Fox of Salmon River, Rafting Lowe River
  • Geoffrey Brock – Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859, Charles Graner Is Not America
  • Billy Collins – No Things
  • Paola Corso – Step by Step with the Laundress
  • Peggy Smith Duke – Hen Party
  • Matthea Harvey – Museum of the Middle
  • Brandon Kershner – Liberation
  • Michael Loughran – Incident Report, My Relationship with With
  • Jacques Prévert (translated by J.T. Barbarese) – Le désespoir est assis sur un banc (Park Bench Sphinx), Chanson des escargots qui vont a l’enterrement (Did You Hear the One About), Riviera (Taking It In)
  • Vivian Laramore Rader – Everglades, On Having and Had, Hens