Issue 21

SPRING 2009

SUSAN ATEFAT PRIZE

Laura K. Distelheim, Nonfiction
Songs Sung Blue

ARTS & LETTERS PRIZE

Kathleen Warnock, Drama
Some Are People

POETRY

Susan Atefat
Vessels
To My Unborn Son
To My Son at Seven Months
To My Son at Ten Months
Filling the Spaces We Know
Walking Home in Autumn

Kelly Cherry
Mute
Talking With Only One Functional Vocal Cord

Olivia Clare
Jouissance de Soi

Mary Lucina
Listening for Whistles
Signing

Angie Macri
Coyote
Black Bear

Keith Ratzlaff
Begonias
Almost Ending With a Line From Wang-Wei

Susan Varnot
Measures
As If Called

Timothy Daniel Welch
Sibelius

Theodore Worozbyt
Cafés
Guesses
Reduction

FICTION

Bonnie Roop Bowles
The Seventh Wonder of the Appalachains

Pamela Gullard
Self-made Man

Laura Longsong
What To Keep, What To Toss

 

ESSAYS

Gilad Elbom
Even Satan Spoke Hebrew

Patricia Foster
The Narcotic Couch: A Politics of Non-Being

Emily Hipchen
Sight-seeing

Paul Lisicky
Safety and Dread

Lynn Pruett
Erosion

 

TRANSLATIONS

Karen Borowicz and Ben Admussen translate Malcolm de Chazel
Selection from Poémes

 

INTERVIEWS

Rosemary Szczygiel interviews Theodore Worozbyt
Extending Boundaries

STAFF

Editor: Martin Lammon
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Karen Salyer McElmurray
Fiction Editor: Allen Gee
Poetry Editor: Laura Newbern
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Associate Editor: Alice Friman
Assistant Editors: 
Nathan Jackson Tucker
Zachary Burkhart
Leah Norton
Shawnsey Rudolph
Meredith Dodson
Shawn Parkison
Angela Hall