Subtropics Issue 2 Cover
Issue 2: spring/summer 2006

Fiction

  • Rachel West CarpenterTravel Story
  • Tony D’SouzaMagic Muffler
  • Willem ElsschottWill-o’-the-Wisp
  • Allan Gurganus“We, of Weedland”
  • Sheila KohlerThe Golden Dove
  • Padgett PowellDid We Party Last Night?
  • Liz PratoUnderneath the Magnolia Tree When Magnolias Were in Bloom
  • Jarret RosenblattRhythmically

Nonfiction

  • James LordGiacometti’s Goddess
  • Robert SchultzThe Ephemera
  • Cynthia ZarinReal Estate

Poetry

  • Jennifer AtkinsonThe Black Fox of Salmon River, Rafting Lowe River
  • Geoffrey BrockFlesh of John Brown’s Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859, Charles Graner Is Not America
  • Billy CollinsNo Things
  • Paola CorsoStep by Step with the Laundress
  • Peggy Smith DukeHen Party
  • Matthea HarveyMuseum of the Middle
  • Brandon KershnerLiberation
  • Michael LoughranIncident 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 RaderEverglades, On Having and Had, Hens