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Contents: Issue 6: Fall 2012


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Essays and Creative Nonfiction

William L. Alton Agoraphobia
T. Nicole Cirone Caught in the Act
Thomas E. Kennedy Two Danish Words in Memory of Thelonious Monk
◊ Anabel Chapman: An Introduction
Clint Margrave Bill of Writes: Life, Liberty, and the Poetics of Authenticity
Lee Martin Never Thirteen
[An excerpt from the memoir, Such a Life]
Peter Najarian Nineteen Eighty-One and Eighty-Two
Lennox Raphael Inner Walking with a Danish Writer:
On Jens Olav Magnussen

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Featured Author

Steve Davenport Overpass
[Poems + Reviews and More]

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Featured Links

Link-lists in the blue column at right change with each issue. (Note: All out-links open in a new window.) Links below were featured during Fall 2012:

Judith Arcana &
Judith Barrington
A Conversation Between Judith Arcana &
Judith Barrington

“...poetry, writing, politics, sexuality, the classics and their experiences as women, teachers and poets...”
[Eclectica: Vol 13, No 3: July/August 2009]
 
Oronte Churm Steve Davenport and Bruce Rummenie Talk Poetry
Inside Higher Ed, 4 February 2011
[Entry includes links to six podcasts.]
 
Okla Elliott Agnosticism and Atheism: Five Misconceptions, Five Quotes, and One Video
“In effect, nearly all atheists are actually agnostics in that they admit there is the possibility of a god or many gods existing.”
[As It Ought To Be, 23 July 2012]
 
Richard Gilbert Review/Q&A: Lee Martin’s Such a Life
[Narrative, 6 May 2012]
 
Christopher Higgs Talking With Okla Elliott
A discussion “...from art to politics to influence to the narcissism of minute differences.”
[HTML Giant, 20 June 2012]
 
Lee Martin Ignorance, Lies, Imagination and Subversion in the Writing of Memoir and the Personal Essay
[Brevity Craft Essays, September 2011]
 
Carolyn Miller The World as It Is
[American Life in Poetry (Column 269), with intro by Ted Kooser]

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Featured Sites

List for Fall 2012: Authors Audio

Contemporary World Literature

Literary Mama

Poem of the Week

Serving House Books

Serving House News

Web del Sol

[We’re proud and honored to be counted amongst WDS’s top 50 literary magazines.]

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Flash Fiction

Raul Clement Another Apocalypse
David Memmott Armageddon on Monday Night Football
◊ Unheard Concert, or Dead Rock Stars Return on a Ghost Plane

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Interviews

Derek Alger An Interview with Kelly Cherry

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Poems

Deborah Allbritain Del Mar Pizza
◊ Faith
◊ Matthew
Bonnie Auslander Quilt + Curtains = Authenticity
Sarai Austin Dog Town
◊ A Week After
Annabel Chapman For John Robin
◊ Just on the Other Side
◊ Tambourine Lifetime
◊ The Last Day of Autumn
◊ See also Anabel Chapman: An Introduction
Ted Gilley Virginia
Debbie Hall Detritus
◊ What We Feared
P. K. Harmon What Wave
◊ What Birth
◊ What Affliction
◊ What Identity
◊ See also Renée Ashley’s review of What Island
Jackleen Holton The Birthday Party
◊ She Talks in Our Sleep
◊ How Good Girls Go Bad
◊ Walker Creek
Graciela Huinao See Translations below
Barbara Weeks Huntington And You Were Just Some Guy
Robin Keehn Avoiding the Sentimental
Bill Lovelady Bare ruined choir
◊ Carnival knowledge
Carolyn Miller [Two Poems + Commentary]
◊ New Lines for Fortune Cookies
◊ Swimming
Michael Nieman Why I Never Got to Write It Down
Barry North The First Time
Penny Perry [Two Poems + Commentary]
◊ In Their Corners
◊ McCarthy on the Radio
Andrea Potos For My Friend Who Called Me Fuddy Duddy
◊ It Happens in Italy
Doren Robbins Against Angels [+ Commentary]
Ron Salisbury Hearing Aids
Margaret Towner Third Grade Writing Assignment
◊ Border Crossing
◊ How to Achieve Wetback Status
◊ Childhood Grief
[Translation of poem by Graciela Huinao]

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Poets Talk

Carolyn Miller Swimming with Marilyn
Penny Perry On the Poems in Santa Monica Disposal & Salvage
Doren Robbins On “Against Angels”

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Reviews

Renée Ashley What Island
[Review of poems by P. K. Harmon (Serving House Books, 2012)]
Duff Brenna Lolita on Steroids
[Review of Robert Gover’s novel, On the Run With Dick and Jane (Hopewell Publications, 2006)]
R. A. Rycraft A Vision of Neon
[Review of memoir by Angela M. Graziano (Serving House Books, 2012)]

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Short Stories

Karen Ackland The House on Kingsley Drive
Judith Arcana Answering the Question
◊ Knocking
Walter Cummins Dance with Me!
David S. McCabe The Death of Chato
[An excerpt from the novel, Without Sin]
Lars Rasmussen Fighting Toads
Leah Weiss Crossing the Line

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Translations

Graciela Huinao Luto Infantil [Childhood Grief]
[A poem translated from Spanish by
Margaret Towner]

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Visual Arts

Anabel Chapman Painting: Untitled [Orange Fish]
◊ Painting: Untitled [Blue Owl]
Peter Najarian Painting: Three Sculptures
Cindy Sheppard Photograph: Box Canyon with Waterfall
◊ Photograph: Red Wall Cavern
◊ Photograph: Stairway to Heaven
Gladys Swan Painting: Untitled
“...we have been born here to witness and celebrate. We wonder at our purpose for living. Our purpose
is to perceive the fantastic. Why have a universe if there is no audience?” — Ray Bradbury