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 Vol. 1 Spring, 2004 |
 Vol. 2 Winter, 2005 |
 Vol. 3 Summer, 2005 |
 Vol. 4 Spring, 2006 |
 Vol. 5 Spring, 2007 |
 Vol. 6 Spring, 2008 |
 Vol. 7: Iss. 1 Winter, 2009 |
 Vol. 7: Iss. 2 Spring, 2009 |
| Table of Contents Volume 1 Hide |
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| Poetry | |
| Michael Dickel | Two poems |
| Philip Dacey | Two poems |
| Marianne Zarzana | Two poems |
| Paul Kilgore | "The Beatles at Sixty" |
| Sharon Chmielarz | Two poems |
| Casey Hickman | Two poems |
| Derek Tellier | Two poems |
| Richard Carr | "Split" |
| WIlliam Reichard | Two poems |
| Jim Redmond | Two poems |
| Gwen Hart | "The Widower Sees a Photograph of an Apple" |
| Esther Hoffman | "Electric Spanish Moss" |
| Tara Moghadam | Two poems |
| David Radavich | "Envoy" |
| Christine Stark | Two poems |
| Gregory Nicolai | Two poems |
| Amanda Nigon | "Heritage" |
| Richard Nesberg | "Significance" |
| Deborah Ress | "A House in Grainger County" |
| Michael Burns | "memory stutter" |
| Erin Truesdale | "Second Thoughts" |
| Brian Baumgart | "Breathing the Road" |
| Ryan Havely | "Twilight" |
| May Mahala | Two poems |
| James P. Lenfestey | "One Coyote Calling" |
| Andrea Potyondy–Smith | "Chinook" |
| James Naiden | "Jackson Pollock: A Sestina" |
| Fiction | |
| Nicole Lea Helget | "Milk Room in the Summer of Grasshoppers and Tomatoes" |
| Nate LeBoutillier | "Substitute Catholic" |
| Matt Gawel | "Judas Salad" |
| Jessica Gunderson | "Flesh and Bone" |
| Nonfiction | |
| Roger Hart | "Over the Hill" |
| Featured Writers | |
| Edward Micus | Interview and Selected Work |
| Joyce Sutphen | Interview and Selected Work |
| Flash Fiction Contest | |
| Danielle Jean Tibbitts | "Marja’s Siren" |
| Nick Healy | "A Girl Who Liked His Brand" |
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| Poetry | |
| Louis Bourgeois | Two poems |
| Michael Dickel | Two poems |
| Tina Egnoski | "In Danger of Speedy Disappearance" |
| Joshua Grace | "High Roller Races Down the Western Rockies" |
| Michael Hardin | "Bone Collector" |
| Hans Hetrick | Two poems |
| Rachel Langille | "April Afternoon in the Museum" |
| Diane LeBlanc | Two poems |
| Jenny Marks | Two poems |
| Steve Mueseke | Two poems |
| Joshua Olsen | Two poems |
| Christina Olson | "What I Know About Turkeys" |
| Roger Pfingston | "Petit Mal" |
| Richard Robbins | "Orchard" "Hurricane Season" |
| Gina Tabasso | "Thief" |
| Dan Wahl | "Made Things in Mankato" |
| Cary Waterman | Two poems |
| Eliot Wilson | "Winter Farm" |
| Shana Youngdahl | "Home" |
| Beth Walker | Two poems |
| Fiction | |
| Charles Baxter | "The System" |
| Charles Laird Calia | "The Book of Storms" |
| Matthew Christensen | "The Question" |
| Tyler Corbett | "River Valley" |
| Kristin Dodge | "The Mirror" |
| Matthew Frank | "Bridge" |
| Jennifer Grow | "Stray" |
| Nate LeBoutillier | "Translated from the Original Japanese" |
| Liz Mandrell | "If the Lord Comes Back Should You Be Gone" |
| Edward Micus | "The Bedmaking" |
| Laura Pinhey | "So Many Trees" |
| Christine Stark | "Rock Formations" |
| Dan Wahl | "The Fire Ring" |
| Nonfiction | |
| Nicole Helget | "Brewing" |
| Jared Mason | "Headphone Jazz: A Manifesto" |
| Reed Michael Stratton | "Rivers and Women" |
| Flash Fiction Contest | |
| First Place:Christina Olson | "First Gear" |
| Second Place:Garnett Kilberg Cohen | "Her Hair" |
| Third Place:Jennifer Amel | "The Distance Between Us" |
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| Poetry | |
| Lana Ayers | "Leda’s Nightmare" |
| Walter Cannon | "Salome at the Seward High Reunion" |
| George Held | "To Reason" |
| Eric Hoffheiser | "Sundial" |
| Jeff Iovannone | "The Lonely Painter" |
| Ann Iverson | "Prayer" |
| Erin Jourdan | Two poems |
| Michael Milligan | "Two Strangers in Camden, Maine" |
| Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Three poems |
| Josh Olsen | Two poems |
| Stephen Roger Powers | Two poems |
| Jean Prokott | "The Jazz Band Played at the Airport Hangar" |
| Fernand Roqueplan | "West is a Golden Paradise" |
| Shane Seely | Two poems |
| Joyce Sutphen | Three poems |
| Chad Woody | Two poems |
| Prose | |
| Kelly Bestul | "Grandma Rita" |
| Ben Drevlow | "Replacement Brother" |
| Jeremy Johnson | "The Last Will and Testament of Someone Resembling Jeremy Johnson" |
| Nate LeBoutillier | "Piano/Tuba" |
| Tom Maltman | "On Writing and Wounds" |
| Michael O’Hearn | "Enemy" |
| Dustin Parsons | "Derrida's Daughter Gets ‘Married’" |
| Roger Sheffer | "Butter" |
| Chad Woody | "Witness" |
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| Poetry | |
| Blake Hoena | Three poems |
| Emily Walter | Two poems |
| Kristyn Blessing | "February Thaw" |
| Michelle Menting | Two poems |
| Scott Bade | "Comfort" |
| Michael Bogan | "Ode to a Public City Bus" |
| Luke Daly | "The Insomniac Plague of the Family Buendia" |
| Ann Iverson | "Her Job at Dusk While a Storm Threatens" |
| Steve Larson | "Thin Ice" |
| Steve Mueseke | Two poems |
| Lisa MB Simmons | "The Clawed Brain" |
| Jessica Green | Three poems |
| Adrian S. Potter | "To the Lady in Apartment 214" |
| Cindy May Murphy | Two poems |
| Michael Murphy | "Old Drum Reverie" |
| Dustin Horstmann | Two poems |
| Glen Sheldon | "The Boat" |
| Carl Lonnquist | "All Zombies Need Hugs" |
| Sandra Gail Techmann | "After Breaking the Window, the Thief Was Careful Not to Step on the Geraniums" |
| Dan Wahl | "This Ink is My Horse My Molten Blood" |
| Jenny Yang Cropp | Two poems |
| Sonja Sharp | Two poems |
| Ryan Havely | "Too Fast, Too Young" |
| Photography | |
| Blake Hoena | Two photos |
| Emily Walter | Two photos |
| Prose | |
| Chance York | "Pretty Things" |
| Nan Byrne | "Redemption Song" |
| Reed M. Stratton | "Bad with Names" |
| John Bradley | "Parable of the Tailectomy" |
| Jessica Benjamin | "Her Favorite" |
| Bruce Pratt | "Blue Silk" |
| Jamey Genna | "The Wind Chill Factor Kicked In" |
| Michael MacBride | "The Racist" |
| Darren Wieland | "Upon Arrival" |
| Antoinette Cole | "They Called My Father Ham" |
| Bronson Lemer | "Bullets" |
| Brian Baumgart | "The Smallest Baby in the World" |
| Jessica Smith | "Reckless on the Corners" |
| Tyler Corbett | "French Quarter in Spring:Vignettes" |
| Jared Mason | "In Human Cruelty" |
| Chris Sheehan | "Around Close" |
| Nate Liederbach | "Noochew Creek" |
| Flash Fiction Contest | |
| Cindy May Murphy | "Bitch" |
| Kathleen McGookey | "Sixteen" |
| Kristine Somerville | "Runners" |
| Undergraduate Writing Award Winners | |
| Marissa Hansen | "Winterize Your Soul" |
| Catherine Bode | "Thursday" |
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| Poetry | |
| Maya Jewell Zeller | Two poems |
| David Trame | "Recurring" |
| Andrew Kozma | "Bees of the Invisible" |
| Skaidrite Stelzer | "Lime" |
| John Minczeski | Two poems |
| Philip Bryant | "Working Out at the Corner Lounge" |
| Jeff Fearnside | "Little River Almanac" |
| Mary Beth O’Connor | "Freud’s Dream" |
| Alice Duggan | "Red, Joe, and Clint: How Her Dead Brothers Waith for Their Sister" |
| Grace Danborn | "Slumgullion" |
| Carol Carpenter | "The Hook" |
| Ami Irmen | "October 8, 1871 (the Peshtigo fire)" |
| James Cihlar | Two poems |
| Jon Ballard | "Restoration" |
| John Estes | "The laws that laws of joy may squander" |
| Noel Sloboda | Two poems |
| David J. Clisbee | Two poems |
| Rumit Pancholi | Three poems |
| Patrick Hicks | "Read This" |
| Raymond Deng | "Midnight at St. Thomas’ Orphanage" |
| Matt Nienow | "How Marriage is Like Baking Bread" |
| Martin Ott | Three poems |
| Kristyn Blessing | Two poems |
| Luke Daly | Two poems |
| K. Flynn | "The Trombonist’s Wife" |
| Dustin Horstmann | "Outside of a Liquor Store in the Bronx" |
| Rusdon Torbenson | "Dust to Dust in the Belly of the Great Upright" |
| Prose | |
| Nadine Darling | "Circus Fire" |
| Perry Glasser | "Creative Writing Midterm Unit # 2, Causality" |
| Jay Orff | "Lost in the Woods Panicked Byway" |
| Shane Alan Noecker | "Whereabouts" |
| Nate LeBoutillier | "Prison Ball" |
| Christine Stark | "spring birds" |
| Savanah Lee Jahrling | "Still Life with Wrists" |
| Jade Faul | "Facets of My Father" |
| Alan Elyshevitz | "Numbers" |
| Sue Williams | "Little Limbs" |
| Matthew Vercant | "How to Love a Woman in Tanzania" |
| Anne Macdonald | "The Red Pony" |
| Luke Rolfes | "Dust" |
| Dylan Schultz | "Heidi’s Heart" |
| Carrie Gatewood | "My Vote, My God" |
| Melissa Brandt | "Lion Food: A Parable" |
| Michael Slotemaker | "The Ponderosa Pine" |
| Philip N. MacKenzie | "A Reason to Go Back" |
| Teresa Kay Albertson | "Dust" |
| Dory Adams | "The Sound of Shifting Light" |
| Chad Simpson | "Amtrak" |
| Chad Kuyper | "Sonata in E–Flat" |
| Timothy Taggart | "Storage" |
| Kathleen May | "Daughters" |
| Michelle May | "Pigs" |
| Art | |
| Ann E. Judkins | Photo |
| Ryan Havely | Photo |
| Timothy Connor | Photo |
| Britta Trygstad | Two photos |
| Jessica Nelson | Photo |
| Bryan Boyce | Photo |
| Cover photo by Britta Trygstad | |
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| Poetry | |
| Tom Holmes | "The Man Who Counted Away" "The Origin of the Lemon Orchard" |
| Gary Soto | Three poems |
| Jeffrey Alfier | "The Stableman" |
| Tricia Asklar | "An Explanation to My Wife About a Dead Mouse" |
| Gaylord Brewer | Two poems |
| John Krumberger | "Graduate School" |
| Lindsay Wilson | Two poems |
| John M. Anderson | "Composite" |
| Dustin M. Hoffman | "Unwrapping the Cul–de–sac" |
| Sandra M. Castillo | "Drowning" |
| Gary Eddy | "The History of Music" |
| Jorge Evans | "Twilight of the Idols" |
| Jackie Bartley | "Montgomery, 1963" |
| Nataly Giammona | "The Things I Am Willing to Tell a Perfect Stranger" |
| Fiction | |
| Luke Rolfes | "Fat as Hell" |
| Nidzara Pecenkovic | "Practical and Proper" |
| Jon Ballard | "Mothers" |
| Antoinette K. Cole | "Something for Dorothy" |
| Kathryn St. Vincent Vogl | "The Accessory" |
| Kathleen Jameson | "The Science Guys" |
| Phebe Davidson | "Till She Drops" |
| Peter Joseph Gloviczki | "Dating Caroline" |
| Cherri Randall | "Paper Dolls, 1974" |
| Lindsay Schacht | "Things He Doesn’t Tell You" |
| Tim Taggart | "Fall" |
| Nonfiction | |
| Diana Joseph | "The Boy" |
| Richanda Grant | "Down Death Road" |
| Interview | |
| David J. Clisbee | An Interview with Gary Soto |
| Art | |
| Jonathan Sulinski | Two photos, Art–"The Marching Monks" |
| Britta Trygstad | Three photos |
| Colin Scharf | Photo–"The London Eye" |
| Cover photo: "Leona’s Car" by Britta Trygstad | |
| "The Boy" by Diana Joseph originally appeard in Marginalia Vol. 1, Issue 2. | |
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| Poetry | |
| Julie L. Moore | Two poems |
| Denise Duhamel | Three poems |
| Gary Dop | "To the Ice Cream Man" Two More Poems |
| Mark Parlette | Two poems |
| Martin Moran | "U.S. Steel" |
| Carrie Shipers | Three poems |
| Joseph Winzenburg | "Where to Set My Friend" |
| Julia Meylor Simpson | Two poems |
| Renee Emerson | Two poems |
| Richard Terrill | "November 22" "Lines Abandoned by my Students" |
| Sandra M. Castillo | Four poems |
| Natalie Giarratano | Three poems |
| Joe Betz | Three poems |
| Derek Pollard | "On the G Train Headed Toward Clinton–Washington" |
| Russell Evatt | Three poems |
| Fiction | |
| Thomas Cooper | "Dead Letter Days" |
| Steve Almond | "My Father the Stylist" |
| RoseMarie Malmrose | "Laws of Motion" |
| Tom Dunn | "Dogs and Demons" |
| D Sprung Kurilecz | "Honeysuckle Hybrid" |
| Brad D. Green | "Receptacle" |
| Nonfiction | |
| Leigh Allison Wilson | "Prophylactics: A Meditation on Desire" |
| Cover photo: "Dune Run" by Anne Glista | |
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| Poetry | |
| Tom Boswell | Three poems |
| Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Five poems |
| William Lusk Coppage | "Returning Home on First Leave" "Once in Mississippi the Moon was Hidden" |
| Sally Rosen Kindred | Two poems |
| Lauren Goldstein | Three poems |
| Lee Stern | Two poems |
| Kellie M. Stolz | Two poems |
| Michael Campagnoli | "Normal" |
| Kit Williamson | "Shotgun" |
| Geoff Collins | "Directions" |
| em jollie | "A Neitzchean Critique of Wislawa Szymbmborska’s 'In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself'" |
| Margaret Bashaar | Two poems |
| Laurie Barton | Three poems |
| Lucian Young | "Play" |
| Fiction | |
| Thomas Fox Averill | "Fugitive Interlude: 1825" |
| Melanie Haney | "The Anniversary" |
| Les Brady | "White Owl" |
| Patrick Hicks | "Into Thin Air" |
| Jenna Dietzer | "Inheritance" |
| John Olseth | "Frostbite" |
| Alicia Shandra Holmes | "Winter Afterward" |
| Irene Westcott | "Not One Word" |
| Matthew Pizza | "Twilight Lake" |
| Nonfiction | |
| Sunny Zhang | "My Beijing" |
| Candace Black | "Fire and Rain" |
| Cover photo: "Four Quadrants" by Annie Dawid | |
