#61
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Angela Featherstone
• God Said No
Thalia Field Interview by Jorge Armenteros
Andy Fogle
• The Day I Became a Grown-Up
Sunil Freeman
• Frank Memories: Zappa in College Park
Samina Najmi
• The Little Room on the Roof
José Padua
• The Sixty-Year History of My Family’s Presence in the Valley as Presented in Seven Short but Not Quite Slender Paragraphs
• The Philosophy of Flowers v. The Speed of Life
Poetry
Carrie Addington
• Body As
• Harvesting
Shane Allison
• Teenage —Drag Queen
• Todd’s Wife, Kerry
• Lavender Wedding
Sara Backer
• Postcard From a Past Life Goth
Mary Bargteil
• Perhaps She Will not Die Today
Charles Baudelaire
• I Love You as I Love the Vault of Night
• The Taste for Nothingness (tr. by Lola Haskins)
Grace Bauer
• Detours
• Re/wind
Guy R. Beining
• felt tongue 160.
Candace Black
• A Daughter’s Tour of Duty: Vietnam 2006
Linda Blaskey
• Grand Canyon Honeymoon, 1928
Paula Bonnell
• Afterwards
Rich Boucher
• Using a Candle to Tell the Time
Judith Bowles
• L.S.M.F.T.
Steven Breyak
• The Gunman
Valentina Cano
• Rejecting Domesticity
James Cervantes
• I Want You to Understand
Joan Colby
• Clio Prepares for Surgery
Barbara Crooker
• Dreaming of Florida
Michael Daley
• Grace
Kelly Davio
• Round: “In the Kingdom of Thud, Globes Plummet to Black”
William Virgil Davis
• Corminbouef 432
• Seventeen
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine
• Pregnant
Sarah Einstein
• This Is the Problem with all that New Age Bullshit about Positive Thinking and Not Letting the Disease Win
Kristina England
• Sticky Sweet
Gary Fincke
• Girl’s Talk (a sequence)
Rebecca Foust
• Against Plastic Surgery
• The Poet’s Calling
Jesse Glass
• Radio-controlled Jags o’ Jeffers: a Para-human
• Chronothanatolertron
John Gosslee
• Patchwork
James Grinwis
• Landscape of Serene Debauchery
Jim Gross
• 5 Egrets Descending
• Poem for Bill Knott
Herbert S. Guggenheim
• Timmy
• Athena
• Date
Michael Gushue
• The Empire Limited
• Godzilla, King of Monsters
Piotr Gwiazda
• A Poem
Johnny Hartner
• Snapshot of the Holy Ghost
Lola Haskins
• Because He Fails to Look Up
• Flight
Elizabeth Hazen
• Ghost Story
• Coastal
Allison Hedge-Coke
• ‘73
Erin Hoover
• On the Origin of Species
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
• The Sun May Eventually Engulf the Earth
• Oral History
Tod Ibrahim
• For the First Time Stronger
• Together We Are the Judas Horse
Jacqueline Jules
• Storm in the Neighborhood
John King
• Six Flags Stars Hall of Fame Wax Museum
• Dioramas of the Inquisition
Sandra Kolankiewicz
• How to Survive the Flood
Beth Konkoski
• Sleep Away Camp
Gary Leising
• How to Exhume a Body
• Not As Unlucky
Melvin E. Lewis
• At Their Head
Lyn Lifshin
• Before the First Red Comes into the Maples
• Horses and Dancers
• A Year after the Filmmaker
• I Think of the Young Girl
• After the Blue Mosque Dream
• Apricots, Figs and Late Nights, Cappadocia
Adrian C. Louis
• Morphine Jesus
Mary Mackey
• Coriolis Effect
• Inquisition
• Rio +3 Degrees
David McAleavey
• Loose crown for Claude McKay
Margaret McCarthy
• Vertigo 1
• Vertigo 2
Dora E. McQuaid
• Tunnel of Love
Mark Melnicove
• Means Test
Stephen C. Middleton
• In Defense of Hoboes (Veiled)
Devon Miller-Duggan
• The Magnetic Fields . . .
Roberto Montes
• One way to be a person is to believe a matrix is a serious work
• One way to be a person is to be a model citizen
Christopher Morgan
• A Bloom in My Habitat
Elisabeth Murawski
• On a Fragment from Sappho
David Taylor Nielsen
• Superman’s Sperm
• Zombies 1
Meredith Pond
• At Montrose Park
Shelley Puha
• An Infomercial for the Ladies-in-Waiting
• Guinevere, Supine
Carol Quinn
• My Reykjavik
Charles Rammelkamp
• Disgrace
Elizabeth Rees
• Trespass
Maritza Rivera
• Jealousy
Kim Roberts
• Kim Roberts
Stuart Ross
• Dick TV
Tomaz Salamun
• Holderlin in Bordeaux
Gregg Shapiro
• How to Flirt
• The Indignities
Gary J. Shipley
• Barf Chair
Noel Sloboda
• Last Days of the Mattress King
Rose Solari
• Another Country
Kurt Steinwand
• Black & White 1966
D. E. Steward
• Off Kiritimati
• I Won’t Be Familiar Again
Meredith Trede
• Child of My Child
• Xian Warriors
James Valvis
• How I Became Mexico
Rebecca Villareal
• Fairy Lashes
Michael Waters
• Quoting Rumi
Julia Wendell
• Wafers
• Dieting
Basil White
• Thalia Says Goodbye
• What a Hunting Dog Knows
Gregg Wilhelm
• What Ink
Shangrila Willy
• Concerto the First
Pamela Murray Winters
• An Imagined Garbo . . .
• Cropedey
Bill Yarrow
• What the Hell Am I Doing?
Theodora Ziolkowski
• Brontë for Beginners
Fiction
Art
Andrew Bales
• Tori Lawson’s Perfect Mouth
Jennie Berner
• Unsettled
Matthew Blasi
• Serenade, Promenade
Gerri Brightwell
• Beast
Amy Bush
• Cement Breath
Dana Cann
• Platform
Peter Caputo
• The Rising Stench of Perfumed Angels
Gabriel Don
• Cesspools and Treasure Chests
Jay Duret
• Sushi
James Dye
• There are no Established Protocols for Entertaining Rogue Comets
Lauren Fairbanks
• from “Superpower(s)”
Lydia Morris Fettig
• Soap
Julia Figliotti
• Skin-Deep
Matthew Finn
• A Brief History of Sushi
April L. Ford
• Bleary
Thaisa Frank
• Anesthesia
Faith Gardner
• The Red Button
Sabina Grogan
• The Woods Witch
Diane Gurman
• Swimming to the Siren’s Song
Paul Handley
• 5 Stages of Dog Grief
• Our Anecdotal Integrity
Gloria L. Huang
• Down to the Bottom
Gilles Leroy
• from Alabama Song [tr. J. T. Townley]
Peter Tieryas Liu
• Phobia
Mary Luttrell
• Fractures
Jønathan Lyons
• Calling
Joe Mills
• At the Edelweiss Club, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Rebecca Nison
• Story Time
Kevin O’Cuinn
• The Water Carrier
Abby Mei Otis
• Sex Dungeons for Sad People
Virgie Townsend
• Warm and Disloyal
Jacqueline Vogtman
• As She Waited
Theodore Wheeler
• Shame Cycle
Kirby Wright
• Leg of Jen
Timothy Zila
• Thing-in-itself
Cover photo: Baltimore artist Deborah Russell, photo by Gene Tanski, Tanski Studio and Gallery
Frontispiece: Allen Forrest
• New York Noir 2
• Memphis Minnie
• Lulu Jackson
• Blind Willie McTell
Dan Vera
• portraits of DC Poets: Bomani Armah, Guy, Back, Holly Bass, Regie Cabico, Grace Cavalieri, Kim Roberts, and Joseph Ross
Interview
Thalia Field
• Use Everything
Interviewed by Jorge Armenteros