Issue 21.1 | Winter & Spring 2009

 

 

Fiction

 

Cash or Trade 

Jodi Angel

 

Sandstorms

Kristen-Paige Madonia 

 

The Rocks 

Kelly Luce

 

Pain

Michelle Seaton

 

 

Poetry

 

On the Art of Patience (Winner of the 2008 Wabash Prize for Poetry)

Jim Tilley

 

Noodle Shop Sestina (Finalist) 

Nancy Terasaki

 

Stack Sex (Finalist)

Christopher Kempf

 

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Wendy Barker 

 

On Not Being in Bangladesh 

D.R. James

 

Easy for a God

Jen McClanaghan 

 

Generic Princess Book

Martha Greenwald

 

Sustainable Living

Jessica Love

 

The Infidelity of Songbirds 

Sean Prentiss


The Mechanism of Pleasure

KC Trommer

 

Angolans Approach United Camp at Dukwi 

Seth Abramson

 

The Passion

Rasma Haidri 

 

From Professor X: 93

Anne Timberlake

 

Developing Story: God Is Not Dead

Tony Peyser

 

Letters From Donaldson, S.C.

Jonathan Rice

 

 

Essays

 

 

Self-Portrait at 27

Kathleen Rooney

 

Memory & Hive

Dan Beachy-Quick

 

Interview

 

Born Into the Packing:

An Interview with Adam Zagajewski

 

Breakouts and Breakthroughs:

An Interview with Lan Samantha Chang

Artwork

 

Black and White Drawings Throughout the Issue: Kyle Reed

 

Front Cover: Kyle Reed, Chrip Chirp

Back Cover: Kyle Reed, Pin-up Bunny

 

Book Reviews

 

Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, & Paul Buhle's A People's History of American Empire

Paul Guest's My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

Nam Le's The Boat

Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence

Kathleen Kent's The Heretic's Daughter

Daneen Wardropi's The Odds of Being 

Rebecca Miller The Private Lives of Pippa Lee