Issue 17

Arts & Letters Prize

Mark Scharf Drama
Memory Garden

Fiction

Kerry Neville Bakken
Careless

Janice Daugharty
Beck and Barn

Stephen Graham Jones
The Vanity of Open Spaces

Poetry

Ari Banias
A Father
The Carrier

Marianne Boruch
A Fare
Bird Made of Iron
Lunch

Fleda Brown
Knife

Bethany Buchholz
Catechumens
Oral Tradition

Jeffrey Franklin
Drucker’s Mule Barn

Paul Gibbons
Aubade
Snow Brood

Michael Meyerhofer
Floating Womb Syndrome

Robert Nazarene
The Dream of My Father, Who Might Have Been Mine, But for the Asking

Don Welch
The Snare Drummer
The Spillway

Andrea Werblin
An Edge of Idaho

Essays

Patricia Foster
The Middle Row

Jeanne Larsen
On Writing Rapture: [How] Can the Dumb—Define the Divine

Mary Beth Ray
White With Four Cuts

Frederick Smock
Herengracht

Ira Sukrungruang
Under the Hand of Buddha

Alison Townsend
My Mother’s Pink Dress

Interviews

Michael Thomas
The Mind’s Raw, Gold Coiling: An Interview with Carol Frost