Issue 26

SPRING 2012

SUSAN ATEFAT PRIZE

Juliet Petterson, Creative Nonfiction
For the Last Time

ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES

Dwight Holing, Fiction
Gallopers

Rochelle Hurt, Poetry
The Persistence of St. Teresa of Avila
The Strove Tender

James C. McKelly, Drama
Angels in the Froth

POETRY

Robert Gibb
Childhood
“Children Going Home From School to New Raw Suburbs, 1952”
Photography by Clyde Hare

Laurie Lamon
Danger
Waking From an Afternoon Nightmare

Fritz Ward
Love Letter About to Be Lit

Roy Scheele
November Woods
After Things

Stephanie Ivanoff
Cube Steak

Jill Osier
The Snow is Almost Again Mended
This Close

Susan Terris
An Old Saw
Pistil / Pistol

Arne Weingart
Louis Armstrong Says Kaddish
Born in Hungarian

Doug Ramspeck
Naming the Dancers
Once More Naming the Crows

Michael Riley
The Sailor’s Hornpipe
A Little Learning

Jennifer Key
We Are Easily Reduced
Anniversary

Shahe Mankerian
The Last Mosque
Discovery of Cycle

Hilary Sideris
Kalashmikov
Match

FICTION

Courtney Marcelo Norton
Take it for Love

Gloria Huang
Learning How to Survive

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Naima Coster
Fire Escape

Christine Hale
A Seat in the Rain

Thao Thai
Heirlooms

Xu Xi
Ambitious Game

Rachel Lyon
That Skin, that Muscle, that Metal and Bone

Corinne Manning
Primary Sources

Angela Morales
Nine Days of Ruth

Kyle Minor
There is Nothing But Sadness in Nashville

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Allen Gee reviews Ann Williams

 

STAFF

Editor: Martin Lammon
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Karen Salyer McElmurray
Fiction Editor: Allen Gee
Poetry Editor: Laura Newbern
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Assistant Editors: 
Alice Friman
Matthew Jurak
Zachary Burkhart
Jen Pirkle
Valerie Wayson
Evan Allgood