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Issue 5: winter/spring 2008

Fiction

  • Chris Bachelder – Gatsby’s Hydroplane
  • John Brandon – The Coming Summer
  • Suzanne Halmi – No More Happy Birthdays
  • Roy Kesey – Stump
  • Owen King – Nothing Is in Bad Taste
  • Marshall N. Klimasewiski – Aëronauts
  • Paul Lisicky – The Didache
  • Ben Stroud – Borden’s Meat Biscuit

Nonfiction

  • Mark Doty – Still Life: Coda

Poetry

  • Jonathan Barrett – 10 O’clock News
  • Ann Buggey – Fish
  • Marina Colasanti (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey) – Jantar familiar (Family Dinner), No silêncio (Amidst Silence)
  • Sally Dawidoff – At Twenty, Psychoanalyric
  • Geri Doran – The Dark Octaves, Swan Goes
  • Ori Joseph Fienberg – The Seasons
  • Martin Galvin – Crazy Bones
  • Bob Hicok – What is the etymology of etymology?
  • Mark Jarman – Ownership
  • Jan Marie LaPerle – Motherhood
  • Jeanne Larsen – The Garden of Roses
  • Beth Martinelli – Water-Bearing Bodies
  • J. Morris – When She Told Me No
  • H. E. Sayeh (translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi) – Ghorrobe Chaman (Sunset on the Green), Tasvir (Image)
  • Heather Sellers – Listening to the New Tom Petty
  • Anis Shivani – The War in Iraq Poses Irreducible Problems in Identification
  • Ben Sonnenberg – The Goat in the Moonlight, Speedwriting, Jessica’s Farewell, Paris
  • C. Dale Young – Blood