Journal Archive 2014 - 2010

—Fiction—

William Harrison Eleven Beds
Gary Horton The Empty Tanks of Billie Bart
Allen Wier Everything's Really Something

—Essays—

Clay Reynolds 51 Sunsets and Saddles:
     A Valediction Postponed
Angela Williams Excerpt from Hush Now, Baby
Robert Winship The Ergonomic Mouse

—Poetry—

Michael Biehl The Saint
Larsen Bowker Autumn in the Rear View Mirror
John Randolph Carter The Antelope Hat
     Scorched Earth
George Drew Losing Myself at Mount Saint Mary
     College
     Royal's God
     Thief of Autumn
Tom Hanson The Bar at the Folies Bergere
     The Cradle
James Lineberger Annie
Peter Ludwin The Bureau of Land Management
Elizabeth Murawksi Quel Dommage
Dave Parsons Ghost Hawk
     Sometimes the Darkness
Nate Pillman The Son of a Coal Miner
Cleatus Rattan Before Friday Conflicts
     Elementary Tough Stuff
     Great Doak Walker
     To Make God
Dave Roderick Ode to the Magic Bullet
     Treatise on the Novel
Mark Taksa Shoe's Mark
Larry D. Thomas Dark Horse
     Gecko
     Jewel
Marne Grinolds Wilson Nine Minutes and
     Twenty-Three Seconds

—Reviews—

Sybil Pittman Estess Lynn Hoggard’s Motherland:
     Stories and Poems from Louisiana
Farwa Naqvi Richard Burgin's Hide Island:
     A Novella and Nine Stories
Phillip Parotti John C. Waugh's Lincoln and the War's End

—Fiction—

Tom Bennitt Wild and Wonderful
Michael McGuire The Fortuneteller and the Cowboy
Don Meredith The Sudden Disappearance of Adrian Thule
Phillip Parotti Hobb’s Neck

—Essays—

Gorman Beauchamp Three Notes on Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tracy Bilsing Mors ab Alto: The Dangerous Power of Women’s Images in WWII Nose Art
David Raney Wings

—Poetry—

Nicky Beer Specimen #17
     Thorn Ostinato
William Bedford Clark An Extraordinary Evening in Enid
     Migration
Jesse Graves Ghosts of Jackson Avenue
     Stray
     Van Zandt Dream, #4
B.D. Love Ring Cycle
Mathew Olzmann The Civil War Reenactors
     Dead Man In Tree
     The Department of Doubt

—Reviews—

Ashley R. Franklin Steve Davenport’s Overpass
Janet McCann David Parsons’ New and Selected Poems
Christopher Tuthill Floyd Collins’ What Harvest
Liana Vrajitoru Lidia Yuknavitch’s Dora: A Headcase

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF NOEL POLK

Tribute to Noel Polk

—Fiction—

Donald Bates Bedlamite
Mack Dryden Mississippi Dawning
Stephen March Zephyr in the Sixth
Brandon D. Shuler Shining Virgin in the Hollow

—Essays—

Doug Crawford-Parke Too Much About Too Little
Kang Xuepei From China’s Zhiquing Generation

—Poetry—

Kim Bridgford Chatty Cathy
Jesse Lee Kercheval Avenida 18 de Junio
Doug Ramspeck Dreams of Other Fields
Dian Duchin Reed Commemorative Statue
Dian Duchin Reed Taking In, Letting Out
Rachel Richardson A Halo for Her Invisible Hair
Ronald Wallace Like, a Peony
Ronald Wallace Pilobolus
Ronald Wallace Transformers: the Ride
Ross White Fin De Siécle
Jeff Worley Educating Crow
Jeff Worley Evening Visit
Jeff Worley Wrap It Up!

—Reviews—

R. Sebastian Bennett Ryan Forysthe’s Dick Cheney Saves Paris
Rosalina Leticia Casey Clabough’s Confederado: A Novel of the Americas
J.D. Smith Gardens of Earthly Delight: Stories by George Williams Bowie
Marisa Taylor Jean Braithwaite’s Fat: The Story of My Life with My Body
Heather Treseler Wayne Miller’s In Harold’s Eye: The City, Our City
Tara Stillions Whitehead Harold Jafffe’s Revolutionary Brain: Essays and Quasi-Essays

—Fiction—

G.C. Cunningham Release
Joseph Haske That Iron String
William Luvaas Rapture Fire

—Essays—

Thomas Dabbs From Genesis in Japan: the Bible beyond Christianity
Lori Jakiela You’re Not the Boss of Me
Anis Shivani Two Classics from Satire’s Twentieth-Century Heyday: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More and Nathaniel West’s A Cool Million

—Poetry—

Sarah Cortez Aunt Aurora
Sarah Cortez The Gift
Sarah Cortez Joe Angel
Erin Ganaway Light in August
Erin Ganaway Unengaged
Erin Ganaway The Waiting Girl
James McKean Five Stories
Susan Palwick Room 5
William Wright History of the Last Man
William Wright The Milk Witch
William Wright Run-Off
William Wright Water Hemlock v

—Reviews—

Andy O’Clancy Harold Jaffe’s OD: docufictions 137 Charlotte Pence William Wright’s Night Field Anecdote
Tara Tatum Philip Levine’s News of the World
Daniel Tyx Phong Nguyen’s Memory Sickness
Lana Vrajitoru Ruben Quesada’s New Extinct Mammal

Fiction

James Brubaker - Al’s Sound, Big as God: An Interview

Paul Crenshaw - Various Causes of Fire on Abandoned Military Bases

Colin Fleming - The Dedicated Antiquarian

William Jensen - All the River ss

Essays

George Drew - A Not So Ordinary Light, The Crafty Cajun Art of Darrell Borque

Jacob Newberry - Mississippi

Anis Shivani - Character in Fiction: Virginia Woolf’s “Mr Bennett and Mrs. Brown” Reconsidered

Eric Miles Williamson - Homecoming

Robert Winship - On the Autobiography of Mark Twain

Poetry

Deborah Diemont - A Castle in the Air

Bruce Erickson - The Boys in the Boxes: Warehouse #3

Bruce Erickson - R and R

Chris Hannan - Deucalionids

Chris Hannan - Diagenesis

Noel Polk Eden-  Tryptich

Noel Polk - Hound Dog: August 16, 1977

Noel Polk - Shakespeare’s Children

James Miller Robinson - The Same Table

Larry Thomas - Tide Pool Touch Tank

Ralph T. Wilson - Halloween

Jeff Worley - What I Believe

Reviews

Robin Peder Andresen - Jon Fosse’s Aliss at the Fire

Robert Phillips - Tom Baker’s The Sound of One Horse Dancing

Jack Smith - Tim Johnston’s Irish Girl

Fiction
Tina Egnoski - An excerpt from In the Time of the Feast of Flowers
Don Meredith - Señor Ong and the Aguirre Brotherhood
Noel Polk - Small Rain Down
Clay Reynolds - Hoi polloi: A Trio

Essays 
Gorman Beauchamp - Zora Neale Hurston's Other Eatonville
Greg Bottoms - My Old Friend
Janet Yoder - Stuff: An Alphabetical Account of Accumulation

Poetry 
Stephen Behrendt - Cold Spell, Great Plains
Stephen Behrendt - Lineage
Stephen Behrendt - Rain: Nebraska October
T. Alan Broughton - Gift Givers
T. Alan Broughton - Pay Attention
Richard Carr - Penelope
Sharon Doyle - Annie, in Portrait at the Piano
George Drew - Digging Andy
George Drew - Elegy for Michael
George Drew - Fishing from the Tracks
George Drew - Making Do in Petticoat Lane
Myron Ernst - God Time Creosote
John D. Fry - Be Thou My Vision
Andrey Gritsman - In Her Flight
Jerry Hamby - And a Gibbous Moon
Ashley Mace - Havird Restitution: Swallowtails
Lyn Lifshin - Before the First Red Comes into the Maples
Lyn Lifshin - On the Day of the Longest Light
Noel Polk - Threnos
Jan Seale - This Poem, Waiting
Warren Slesinger - Tear

Reviews 
Tria Andrews- Harold Jaffe's Civil Coping Mechanism
Richard Coronado - Mark Wallace's The Quarry and the Lot
Joseph D. Haske - Richard Burgin's Rivers Last Longer
Jonathan A. Lindsey - Sybil Pittman Estess' Maneuvers & Ted Lynn Estess' The Cream Pitcher: Mississippi Stories
Joan Seliger - Sidney Vivian Shipley's All Your Messages Have Been Erased

Fiction 
Lionel Garcia - Augustin, the Violinist (The Curse of Mother Love 
Robert Phillips – From Ice House Sketches 
Mark Shechner - Birth of a Cetacean: Moby's Monologue 
George Singleton - Occasional Sweaters

Essays 
Alan Cheuse - Words of the Future 
Rodney Stenning - Edgecombe Deaths Ceremonious and Casual 
Anis Shivani - Why Is It So Difficult to Write about the Working Class?

Poetry 
E. Louise Beach - Incarnate 
Prescott Evarts - Schoolboy Baseball Angst 
Andrey Gritsman - In Her Flight 
Swep Lovitt - Dog 
Swep Lovitt - I've Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me 
Swep Lovitt - 9 Months Divorced 
Swep Lovitt - Politic 
Dustin Parsons - Bath Time, Twelve Months 
Noel Polk - Girl on the Ocracoke Ferry 
Noel Polk - Spitting Cobras 
Noel Polk - To My Son, at Five, Upon Calling Me in the Night 
Noel Polk - Warthog: Sooey Generis 
Jay Rogoff - The Oceana Roll 
Richard Schiffman - Changing of the Guard 
Richard Schiffman - China by the Sea 
Tori Sharpe - Lorca, 1935 
Helen Wickes - Again, You Become the Fool

Reviews 
R. Sebastian Bennett - Observations Without Daddy, by James P. White 
Joseph D. Haske - Return Fire by Glenn Blake 
Liana Vrajitoru - Conrad in Beverly Hills, by Jake Fuchs
Eric Miles Williamson - Purple Jesus, by Ron Cooper

Fiction
Michael Gills - Welcome to the Authentic Trail of Tears
Richard Spilman - Unclean Spirits

Essays
Greg Bottoms - Born Again
Anis Shivani - Decadence, American Style: Whatever Happened to the American Short Story?
J.D. Smith - The End of the Affair
Eric Miles Williamson - From Say It Hot: Essays on American Writers Living, Dying, and Dead

Poetry
Alan Birkelbach - Before You Disappear
Alan Birkelbach - Clocks in Cathedrals
Alan Birkelbach - Guiseppe Verdi Tuscano Bertilucci
Alan Birkelbach - To Every Social Studies Teacher
Alan Birkelbach - Typeface
Joshua Coben - Cities Without Winter
Joshua Coben - Dark Vista
Joshua Coben - Deadlines
Joshua Coben - The First Born
Joshua Coben - Teeth and Marriages
K.D. Duffin - Portrait of a Swiss Guard
Jesse Graves - Revivals
Jesse Graves - The Road into the Lake
Jesse Graves - Sparrow
Ben Greer - A Childhood Diagnosis
Ben Greer - Dress Rehearsal
Ben Greer - Farewell to Professor James Dickey
Ben Greer - Mario Chipita in Zambia 120 Ben Greer The Unseen
Heather Ross Miller - Green Beans
Heather Ross Miller - The Orchard Chronicles
Heather Ross Miller - Sleepwalker
Kate Schmitt - Old Light
Kate Schmitt - River Gorge, Ithaca, New York
Warren Slesinger - Embers
Melissa Stein - Revolving
Carrie Tippen - Dirt
Carrie Tippen - Home
Will Wright - Before Dawn
Will Wright - Bledsoe
Will Wright - Gravity
Will Wright - Tap Water

Reviews
Sybil Pittman Estess - Now & Then: New & Selected Poems, by Robert Phillips
Eric Gadzinski - Admission, by Jerry Williams

Fiction
Charles Alcorn - Miss Juicy Owns It
Matt Baker - Hittin It
Greg Flakus - Artichokes, as Raymond Carver Might Have Written It
Cliff Hudder - Clear Lake
Don Meredith T- rue Betrayal
Benjamin Percy - The Rifle

Essays
Sybill Pittman Estess - Interview with Robert Phillips
R. J. Tudor - Romantic Voyeurism and the Modern Idea of the Savage

Poetry
William Bedford Clark - The Cemetery: Carney OK
William Bedford Clark - Cultural History
William Bedford Clark - "Katrina refugees return–weigh future"
William Bedford Clark - Monsters
William Bedford Clark - The Passing
David Havird - After the Earthquake Awaiting the Lord
David Havird - After Vintage
David Havird - A Beard like Hemingway's
David Havird - Diminishing Returns
David Havird - The Poem of the Oar
David Havird - Through Romsdal Fjord to Wolf House
David Havird - A Wind of Goats
Karla K. Morton - Athiests
Karla K. Morton - A Life of Luck and Ladies
Karla K. Morton - Spring
Karla K. Morton - Superconductivity
Karla K. Morton - Turkey Vultures
Larry D. Thomas - Amputee
Larry D. Thomas - Dispensation
Larry D. Thomas - Mare
Larry D. Thomas - Out of Nowhere, He Appeared