Issue 3

Arts & Letters Prize Winners

Arthur Meryash Drama
Augustina

Fiction

Allison Amend
A Private, Vulgar Thing

Joan Connor
And I, Isolde

Bret Lott
Gesture

Poetry

Colleen Anderson
Watermark
We Talk at Night

David Baker
Two Clouds

Donald Hall
Four Easters
Love Poem

Christine Boyka Kluge
Choosing a Tongue
Sea Urchins

Miriam Morsel Nathan
The Green Cashmere Sweater with Gold Buttons

Eric Nelson
Earth Day

Barbara Tran
In The Mynah Bird’s Own Words

Jean Valentine
Eighteen
In the Poor Hotel

Essays

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Her Kind: A Fable for Our Times
In Search of My Mentor’s Gardens

Janice Eidus
Class Barbie

Winston Fuller
To Press One’s Eye Against the Body of the World

Dinty W. Moore
By My Own Hands

Interview

John Hoppenthaler
So Let it be Like Rain: An Interview with Jen Valentine

Translation

Carolyn Wright & Mohommad Nural Huda translate Nasima Sultana
I Was Asleep, I Was Alone
I’ll Go Away and I Won’t Say a Thing
Promise
To My Promise-Bound Childhood

Book Review

John Drexel
Something Lucid Surrounded by Something Mysterious

Featured Artist

Juergen Strunck
Eight Prints