36.3 Summer 2012

Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Jennifer Parks, Jane Wong, Scott Provence, J. Allyn Rosser, Sara Gelston, and many more.

Art Feature

The Wind to My Sails

Jennifer Parks

Fiction

A Guide to Anti-Taxidermy

Scott Provence

The Ridiculous Future

Ian Stansel

The True Story of the Romanian Dog Boy

Christopher Mohar

Nonfiction

What Is the Shape

Liz Scheid

Scripts

Diane LeBlanc

Poetry

Passing

Sara Gelston

Aging 

Richard Lyons

Torso

Richard Lyons

Genealogy

Graham Hillard

Night Call

Anne Barngrover

Overland

Derek Gromadzki

On the Fells

Derek Gromadzki

Paradise

Kyle Churney

The Barracuda’s Demesne

Kyle Churney

Flood

Michael Mlekoday

Beeline Eclogue

J. Allyn Rosser

Last Two Speakers of a Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Other

Amorak Huey

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Opportunity

Amorak Huey

To Capture Flights fo Birds

Linda Taylor

California

Robert Murdock

Learning to Drown

Robert Murdock

Facts

Charlie Clark

Ghazal for Consolation

Kathleen McGookey

Cooking with Emma Bovary

Marcela Sulak

When I was Born

Kirk Pinho

Blood’s Junior Prom

Kirk Pinho

Bailey’s Prairie

Jessica Comola

The Necropolitan Railway

Colleen Abel

Cine

Ryo Yamaguchi

Infamy

Ryo Yamaguchi

After You Buried the Danger

Ryo Yamaguchi

Elegy for Milk

Brandon Courtney

Epithalamium

Michael Martin Shea

Conflating the Wrecks

Lisa Fay Coutley

sonnet 1410 [niño americano]

Adam Walsh

sonnet 1810 [time to turn another shade]

Adam Walsh

All Good Girls Deserve

Nancy Reddy

Family Portrait with Rosary and Steak Knife

Nancy Reddy

Birds Keep Nothing in Their Bones

Nancy Reddy

Gramps Stayed Drunk on Jazz

Christian Anton Gerard

Vultures

Jane Wong

Microwave Beetle

Jane Wong

The Good Work

Jane Wong

Necrology from My Forebears

Carolyn Hembree

Morning in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

John Drury

Baptism

John Drury

The Four Biographies of Linda Lovelace

Christopher Lirette

Burned Girl

Kara Van De Graaf

The Ruins

Angela EJ Koh

Isinglass

Christopher Howell

Falling

Christopher Howell

The Dog Greets the Tornado

Catherine Pierce

The Aftermath (2)

Catherine Pierce

Reviews

Review of White Papers by Martha Collins 

Valerie Duff-Strautmann

Review of At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson

Cate Fricke

Review of The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn

Danielle Seller