Summer 2010 Volume 32, Issue 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ART

Amanda Mariño, Platform (cover)

FICTION

Jessica Westhead, We Are All About Wendy Now

Adam Peterson, Dissonance, or: So We Hanged the Governor

Teresa Milbrodt, The Dog Stone

Anne-Marie Kinney, Modes of Transport

Anthony Varallo, My Enemy

Carl Peterson, The Pasigraph

Carl Peterson, We will leave the forest and dwell in houses of fashion, in cities chic.

George Looney, Lack of Intent

Rolf Yngve, Efendim

POETRY

Bruce Snider, Map

Dora Malech, Physical Education

Denise Duhamel, I Read

Christopher DeWeese, New Year's Eve

Erika Meitner, Niagra

Erika Meitner, Yiddishland

Hannah Gamble, In a Time of War

Mark Halliday, Pathos: Seven Instances

Joy Katz, from Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Visit the Holy Land

L.S. McKee, Spy Sonnet: Alias

Stacie Leatherman, Balance #1

Curtis Bauer, Colony Collapse Disorder

Joe Caliguire, Bering

Gary Leising, Thankful

Rebecca Bridge, I Was Lucky that the Furniture Was Ugly

Rebecca Bridge, My Building Was Burning!

Matthew Nienow, On a Cliff Above the Canon River

Mary Ruefle, Abdication

Roger Reeves, In a Brief, Animated World: The Marriage of Anne of Denmark to King James, 1589

Yusef Komunyakaa, Conceived in a Time of War

Elizabeth Wilcoz, Holding up traffic as if to say

Donika Ross, Arkansas Love Song

Gary > McDowell, Ths Summer with Fischl

Melanie Drane, Lilies, Stone Fruit, Bitter Herbs

Alan King, At Selam's

Lilian-Yvonne Bertram, The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces

Bob Hicok, A true story

NONFICTION

David Torrey Peters, Northern Aire Chinchilla Ranch

BLUE FEATURE

Armanda Mariño, The River

Armanda Mariño, Ceiling Fan

Noy Holland, On Blue

Jen McClanaghan, Peninsula

Matt Sadler, Blue Christmas

Oliver de la Paz, My Truant Words Have Got Me All Messed Up--A Blues

Jason Myers, America Mix-Tape, Track 21

Brian Trimboli, Hemerocallis Triptych

Michael J. Lee, Something in My Eye

Steven D. Schroeder, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start

Shara Sinor, The Motion of Waves

Fady Joudah, Blue Fly

Tony Hoagland, American Story

Kazim Ali, from blue my promise a swan: to alice coltrane"

Timothy O'Keefe, Broken Sonnet

Karyna McGlynn, Midwest Still Life, in Motion

Myronn Hardy, Aubade: Blue Hydrangeas

Rickey Laurentiis, Way Down Yonder

Abigail Cloud, Man in Blue Dodge Truck

Iain Haley Pollock, My Stove's in Good Condition

George Looney, Of Divinity and a Dog's Bark

REVIEWS

Bradley Bazzle, The Scoundrel and the Optimist by Maceo Montoya

Jenny Burdge, Famous Last Words by Catherine Pierce

Jeffrey Galbraith, Lucy by Jean Valentine

Joshua Held, Robert Louis Stevenson & Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition by Linda Dryden

Keith Leonard, The Us by Joan Houlihan

Sarah Suksiri, Trust by Liz Waldner

Ryan Teitman, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth by Charles Simic

Marcus Wicker, Cultural Studies by Kevin A. González

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Nina Mamikunian

CONSULTING EDITOR

Alessandra Simmons

FICTION EDITOR

Catalina Bartlett

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITORS

Catalina Bartlett

Deborah Kim

Raleigh Lee

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Tina Bartolome

Bradley Bazzle

Joshua Held

Kurian Johnson

Deborah Kim

Ashley Rutter

FICTION READERS

Louise Rarick

Andrés Sanabria

Sana Younis

NONFICTION EDITOR

Lana Spendl

POETRY EDITOR

Marcus Wicker

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

Morgan Adams

Bethany Carlson

Raleigh Lee

Keith Leonard

Pablo Piñero

Sarah Suskiri

Ryan Teitman

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Justin Chandler

Amanda Demaree

Danielle Frantonius

Jennifer Fujawa

Wei Jia

Shannon McEnerney

McKenzie Miller