Issue 12

Arts & Letters Prizes

Deborah Schwartz Fiction
Orrin in Exile

Tenaya Darlington Poetry
X-Ray Study of a Contortionist
The Oldest Living Bombshell Bares All
After the Dismembered Wedding
Bad Girl Land

Fiction

Eugene K. Garber
The Judgment of Helen

Margot C. Kadesch
Mate Selection

John Lauricella
Half in Love

Yona Zeldis McDonough
Esther the Golden

Miriam Sivan
Midnight Blue

Poetry

Fleda Brown
Small Boys Fishing: Under the Bridge
Light

Alex Grant
Secret Sonnet for the Cockroach

Laurie Lamon
Cerberus

Jean Monahan
Imagination

Robert Nazarene
Patrimony

Minnie Bruce Platt
The Forest of Outstretched Arms
Shopping for a Present: The Repository of Human Flesh and Blood
The Stonecutters: They Try to Roll Back the Wheel

Keith Ratzlaff
September, After T’ao Ch’ien
Sunday

Tim Skeen
To My Father’s Doctor
Luck

Carolyne Wright
Mill Creek Rising
Crossing the Divide

Essays

Sarah Biggs-Wudel
Pearls

Donald Hall
The Grandmother Poem

David Lazar
Across the River

Brenda Miller
Borrowed Views