Issue 16

Arts & Letters Prizes

Mary M. Davies Fiction
Dead Horses

Margaret Rabb Poetry
Gilding the Buddha
Two Grievances
Snow Geese

Fiction

David Crouse
Dear

Karen Dwyer
Worst Case Scenarios

David Jauss
Trespassing

Eric Van Meter
The Letter

Poetry

Andrea Hollander Budy
Dead Weight
Kitchen

Margaret Gibson
Respect

Marilyn Kallet
Packing Light
Apology

JL Kato
At the Breakfast Table

Jesse Lee Kercheval
I Am Telling You
Jenifer Street

Michael Waters
Deep Sea Sponge
Tzaddikim Nistarim
Diving Horse

Patricia Waters
Where Does Terror Come From?
Morning Coffee

Essays

Marcia Aldrich
My Mother in Late Summer

Greg Bottoms
Early Dinner at Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits

Rebecca Epstein
Malingerer

Interview

Tony Leuzzi
Writing by Ear: An Interview with Michael Waters

Translation

Cecile Gray and Fatima Shadchehr translate Pahlavan Mahmud
From The Rubaiyat