Summer 2008

Emerging Poets Feature

Cover art by George Boorujy

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction, by Nicky Beer, Guest Editor

I Know You're Reading This, a poem by Mary Buchinger

My Lives, a poem by Al Maginnes

(This poem later appeared in Verse Daily. See it here.)

Two Poems, by Kristine Ong Muslim

Under the Alabama Sun, a story by Lynnell Edwards

Eight Poems, by Judy Jordan

Cha Cha, a story by Doran Larson

Self-Sufficiency, an essay by Maureen P. Stanton

Wintering Statues, January 2001, a poem by Elizabeth Langemak

21st Century Couplets, a poem by Stephen Gibson

The Traveler, a poem by Michael Johnson

Pocketbook Syndrome, a story by Ellen Morris Prewitt

For an Instant, a poem by David Huerta

translated by John Oliver Simon

Lake of Egypt, Southern Illinois, a poem by Susan Isaak Lolis

In the Smelter's Valley, a poem by Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Mercy, a poem by Richard Boada

Dead Metaphor #8: Sunlight After Morning Thunder, a poem by Gaylord Brewer

Shooting Teddy, a story by Lex Sonne

Anti-Odysseus, a poem by Jason Koo

Shiny Suit, a poem by Marc McKee

Listening to Otis Redding, a poem by Timothy David Shea

Emerging Poets Feature

• Elizabeth Bradfield
• Jericho Brown
• Sean Hill
• Catherine Pierce

Book Reviews

From Where You Dream
by Robert Olen Butler and Janet Burroway
reviewed by Jack Cobb

Drowning in Gruel
by George Singleton
reviewed by Scott Gordon