2008
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
The Whale Hunter
by Steinur Bell
A Friday Desdemona
Blinkered
Natasha
by David Galef
Wayward Children and Their Guardians
by Thomas Gough
City of Bridges
by Rebecca Hall
The Coffin Makers of Ghana
by Matt Rager
Agosti
Advent: A Traveler’s Tale
by Girija Tropp
Old and New Style
by Paul West
The Beast
by Anne-E. Wood
Essays
See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother
Trust and the Cowboy
The Men from Town
Terra Sancta, or On Learning to Read the Signs
Going Nowhere
So Long, Studs
Lucky at Cards
by Emily Stone
Poetry
Stock Market Cycle (Stock Market Blues, Not Yet?, Jump!)
by Nin Andrews
I Don’t Fear Death
Love Poem for Wednesday
My God
Against a Kaleidoscope, 5″ x 7″
The Gospel of Thomas: Through the Open Wound
Traveling by Train
To the Man Who Stole the Trees We Planted in Memory of My Brother-In-Law Who Killed Himself Earlier in the Spring
by Jenny Browne
Landscape with a Very Fat Man, Seated
What They Had Come For
The Aerodynamics
by Rick Bursky
The Forties
by Trent Busch
There’s More to Whaling Than Whales
Writer’s Rooms, Anthony Caleshu, Photograph by Eamonn McCabe for The Guardian
Racism
by Bruce Cohen
Mockingbird
by Wyn Cooper
After the Chinese
On a Line By Brian Phillips
Marlon Brando Considers His Sex Appeal, in Glorious Black and White
Evander Holyfield’s Left Ear Remembers June 28. 1997
by Gary Dop
Venery
by CJ Evans
Everyone knows everything already.
Flamingos Feed Far in the Shadows
Poem
The monocle is a circle the eye is a circle
Refusal
Flipbook
Supermarkets This Large
Vial Trapped in a Fairy Tale
by Suzanne Heyd
Educations
Care of the Body
Recognition Failure Horror
Introduction
by Andrew Kozma
Sunnyside Road
by Timothy Liu
Sweet Salvage
by Sara London
strokes
by Dick Lourie
Fact
Ram’s Horn and Citron, Tinder and Carillon
First Snowfall
The Shore Party
O, What a Beautiful Morning
from Fairy Tale: Cottage
Song in Four Parts with Jeanette McDonald Closeup
Second Line
I Try to Hear the Island Disappearing
Amongst the Cares
by Jordan Rice
Jerry Lee Lewis Plays “That Lucky Old Sun” at Bad Bob’s Vapors Club, Memphis, Tennessee
Protea
Spoon, or A convenient place setting
by Kent Shaw
Wind Gift
Gossip
by Alison Stine
Susurrus of Sheets, Goodbye
What the Sky Is Like
by Alpay Ulku
Kindness
by Tim Upperton
Duel after the Masquerade
Goldsmith and Charity
The World As You Left It
by Helen Wickes
Keeping Up Appearances
Letter Home
Conversations
“Worth Taking the Trouble to Say”: A Conversation with James McMichael
by Mark Dow