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Contents: Issue 13: Fall 2015



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Essays and Creative Nonfiction

Carolyn Chandler The Quilt Trail: Painted Tributes to a Venerable Craft [+ photos]
Skip Eisiminger Averting the Snide Effects: Satire
Black-Powder Summer and Nuclear Winters: Nukes
When Cucumber Vines Tangle with the Concubines: Malapropisms
Prakash Kona Why Shakespeare Is a Third-World Hero
Diana Farr Louis Leave-Takings
Amanda Morris Fishing for Truth
Andrew Perez See Kowit’s Korner

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Featured Author

David Nicholson Flying Home: Seven Stories of the Secret City

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Featured Retrospective

Walter Cummins Richard E. Kim’s The Martyred: Fleeting Fame
[Essay/Review of the 1964 best-selling novel, re-issued in 2011]

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Flash Fiction (up to 1500 words)

Dan Gilmore Prayer Wars
Katherine Kane Don’t
David Nicholson Carolina Is Dancing
[From Flying Home: Seven Stories of the Secret City]
Michael Plotkin A Crow Makes Me Think

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Interview

Bill Mesce, Jr. A Life Reflected in Art; the Art Reflected in a Life:
Kier-La Janisse and House of Psychotic Women

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Kowit’s Korner

Clare MacQueen An Introduction [+ The Kowit Prize]
 
Steve Kowit Passing the Potrero Graveyard
Sarah Lucy Death of a Friend
Jack Marshall For Steve Kowit
Andrew Perez Steve Kowit (1938-2015): Brilliant Poet Was Revered Professor

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Poems

Clare MacQueen Guest Poetry Editor Ron Salisbury
 
Gay Baines The Great Writer
Deborah Bayer Two Poems:
Rising Incense
Story for My Sister
Anne Canter Determination Is the Cat
M. Scott Douglass Two Poems:
Highway Man
Pegged
Susan G. Duncan Two Poems:
Heat Wave
Vigil
Michael Estabrook Evil Arrives
Ken Haas Stateline
Mike Hedrick Two Poems:
How Far to Damascus?
Watching Peggy Sue Got Married Without You
Matt Heitland Two Poems:
In the Weeds
Southpaws
Jackleen Holton Hookway Two Poems:
Hymn to the Feet
“What’s the Capital of Australia?”
Breeann Kyte Penitent
Martin H. Levinson Corrections
Annie Lighthart Of the Many Things We Are Taught
Nina Lindsay Two Poems:
Number 11
Three Ideas About Time
Diane Lockward Two Poems:
For the Love of Avocados
My New Boyfriend Covers Me Like a Floral Scarf
Sarah Lucy See Kowit’s Korner
Jack Marshall See Kowit’s Korner
Carolyn Martin I Love You More Than Mariska Hargitay
Jefferson Navicky Teaching at Night
Karen Neuberg The Girl Who Wanted to Go Fast
Richard King Perkins II Jessica’s First Birthday
Michael Rogers Three Poems:
Fabrics
Fireworks on the 15th of June
Love and Marriage
Hilary Sideris Four Poems:
Alec
Boomer4U
Freed
NeedaLawyerNYC
Karen Stromberg Two Poems:
Inheritance
Our Birth Mother

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Reviews

Duff Brenna Just Before Sleep: Haibun Stories by Dan Gilmore
Walter Cummins See Featured Retrospective
Jeremy Herriges Blame Harper Lee, Not Atticus Finch, for the Shortcomings of Go Set a Watchman [novel]
Linda Lappin Elizabeth MacDonald’s A House of Cards [short stories]
Clare MacQueen Tip-of-the-Iceberg Stories: Grant Faulkner’s Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories
Kenneth Nichols The Doors You Mark Are Your Own by Aleksandr Tuvim (“translated” by Okla Elliott and Raul Clement) [novel]
Susan Tekulve The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci, by Linda Lappin

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Short Stories

Lucille Lang Day The Last Slave
John Michael Flynn When Did It Get So Creepy?
Robert Kerbeck Re: Connected
Andrew Lloyd-Jones Strategies for Living in Uncertain Times
Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger Leonard & Marj
Tom Sheehan To Athens from Third Base
Ed Taylor Golden Hour

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Visual Arts

Carolyn Chandler Five Photographs of Quilt Blocks [+ Essay]:
Bear Paw [By Annelle Urbahn]
Goose Tracks [By Peter Raquet]
Orion Star [At author’s home]
Pinwheel [Based on 1930s quilt]
Texas Gift [by Annelle Urbahn]

“...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