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  • Volume 30 Numbers 3&4
    Volume 30, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2009

    Fiction
    Madison Smartt Bell - An excerpt from Devil's Dream
    Richard Burgin - Clean Souls
    John Michael Cummings - Unmasked
    Jason Grunebaum - Major Nixon
    Stephen March - Trophies

    Essays
    Rodney S. Edgecombe - The Twentieth-Century Suite Poem: Its Mophology and Evolution
    Stephen Faulkner - On Silence
    Don Meredith - Field of Flowers: The Immolation of Giordano Bruno
    Robert Phillips - Memories of Wilia

    Poetry
    Stephen Gardner - Desire
    Stephen Gardner - Dream Hunting
    Stephen Gardner - Evolutionary
    Stephen Gardner - Fetish
    Becky Gould Gibson - After Ilium
    Becky Gould Gibson - Picnic in the Underworld
    Becky Gould Gibson - Poison Ivy
    Susan Kinsolving - L'Oeil de Verre
    Susan Kinsolving - Picture This
    Jack Ledbetter - A Man and a Woman and a Dog with Pups
    Jack Ledbetter - Night (Southern Illinois)
    J.R. LeMasster - Letter to the Poet Billy Collins
    J.R. LeMasster - Two Women Walking
    Kathleen M. McCann - The Hallway
    James B. Nicola - Hostel Hopping
    C.L. O'Dell - Then
    Dave Parsons - I Would Give You the Single Strawberry
    Dave Parsons - Evening After Eating Rainbows
    Simon Perchik - G27
    Simon Perchik - G179
    Philip St. Clair - Concert
    Melissa Stein - Revolving
    Christine R. Waldeyer - The Man at the Gate of the Garden of Eden

    Reviews
    George Drew - Jackson B. Bedell and Darrell Borque's Call and Response
    Caleb Powell - David Shield's Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
    Jack Smith - Dennis Must's Oh, Don't Ask Why

  • Volume 30 Numbers 1&2
    Volume 30, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2009

    Fiction
    Brian Allen Carr – Short Bus
    Mary Kuykendall-Weber – Paw Paw
    Marc Watkins – The Well
    Judy Wilson – Sliver

    Essays
    Sam Pickering – End of Summers
    Noel Polk – Even Mississippi Legending in Barry Hannah's Bats Out of Hell
    Eric Miles Williamson – Selected Essays from Say It Hot

    Poetry
    Peter Cooley – To My Immortal Soul
    Jack Crocker – Treed
    James Doyle – The Neat Farmer
    Myron Ernst – Creosote
    Stephen Gardner – At the Brink of the Century
    Stephen Gardner – Crosshairs
    Stephen Gardner – Fetish
    Becky Gould Gibson – At the Passion of the Christ with Saint Augustine
    Becky Gould Gibson – Xanthippe's Fruits and Vegetables
    Keagan LeJeune – Household Goods
    George Looney – Songs of Lost and Remembered Water
    Missy-Marie Montgomery – Aubade
    Missy-Marie Montgomery – Italy
    Patricia Colleen Murphey – Cave Creek
    W. Dale Nelson – Images
    Pauline T. Newton – De Grazia's Flower
    Lynne Potts – Asleep n the Chelsea Hotel Sonnet
    Mark Sanders – Villanelle: Men at Fifty-One
    Georgia Syribeys – On My Mother's Photograph Framed in Gold Ivy
    Georgie Syribeys – The Sea
    Georgie Syribeys – Urban Eclogue

    Reviews
    Diane Lockward – Tom C. Hunley's Octopus
    Genevieve Kaplin – Caroline Cox's Quaker Guns
    Anis Shivani – Robert B. Shaw's Blank Verse. A Guide to Its History and Use

  • Volume 29 Numbers 3&4
    Volume 29, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2008

    Fiction
    John Michael Cummings – Un Jour J'aimerai
    Don Meredith – Enemy in the Room
    Phong Nguyen – Pages from The Textbook of Alternative History: Ho Chi Minh in Harlem

    Essays
    D.C. Berry – From A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay
    Anis Shivani – New Rules for Writing Fiction

    Poetry
    Jack B. Bedell – Django Reinhardt at La Cigole
    Jack B. Bedell – The Geese on Hwy. 16
    Jack B. Bedell – Saturday Night Crab Boils
    D.C. Berry – GQ's Man of the Year
    D.C. Berry – Toenails Compel Philosophy
    D.C. Berry – Sugar Shoppe Forcast Love Today
    Jack Crocker – Blotter
    Jack Crocker – Lifting Weights
    Jack Crocker – Namesake
    Jack Crocker – September on Copper Ridge
    Jack Crocker – When Language Fails Emotion
    Kendall Duckelberg – Day of the Dead
    Kendall Duckelberg – Eye of the Storm
    Kendall Duckelberg – November Wind
    Rebecca Foust – Archeological Record
    Rebecca Foust – Once Was a River
    Rebecca Foust – Perennial
    Rebecca Foust – Raystown River Trout
    Roger Jones – The Bee Tree
    Roger Jones – A Church in Shiner, Texas
    Roger Jones – Dry Hole
    Roger Jones – Hale-Bopp Spring
    Lyn Lifshin – April 29, 2002
    Lyn Lifshin – Feather's Cushioning Barbaro's Hooves
    Lyn Lifshin – His Mysterious Eyes
    Lyn Lifshin – On a Day It Seemed the Planets and Stars Chose
    Lyn Lifshin – On the Day of the Longest Night
    Lyn Lifshin – No Wonder Some Grooms Spent a Little More Time with Him
    Jack Myers – Cirrus
    Jack Myers – Golden Watch
    Jack Myers – Riding Shotgun in my Life
    Jack Myers – There's Nothing in my Hands
    Jack Myers – This
    Dave Parsons – Knuckleball
    Dave Parsons – Losing Sight
    Dave Parsons – Wolf Attack: Western Art in a Cloudcroft Café
    Larry Thomas – Jesús Concepción
    Larry Thomas – Psyche
    Larry Thomas – Those Who Live by the Sea
    William Wright – Chernobyl Half-life
    William Wright – The Curers of Folly
    William Wright – The Eaves
    William Wright – Hypothetical Bloom
    William Wright – Night Field Anecdote

    Reviews
    Sean Bernard – M. Glenn Taylor's The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
    A.J. Ortega – Dagoberto Gilb's The Flowers

  • Volume 29 Numbers 1&2
    Volume 29, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2008

    Fiction
    Joy Castro – Liking It Rough
    Willy Montana – Oil Wells and Silver Perch
    Chris Offutt – Back Porch
    Jack Smith – The Urgent Duck
    George Williams – Minnehaha

    Essays
    D.C. Berry – From The Rooster Chronicles
    Rodney Stenning Edgecombe – Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole: The Novel as Compendium
    Paul Ruffin – Interview with Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate

    Poetry
    Mark Belair – Grief
    Richard N. Bentley – Each Petal Is Perfect
    Peter Cooley – To My Immortal Soul
    Jack Crocker – The Bald Spot
    Jack Crocker – Jump Shot
    Jack Crocker – Lascaux Artist
    Jack Crocker – Narcissus Falls in Love
    Jack Crocker – Three Love Stories
    Amy Cummings – Bukowski
    James Deahl – Old Song
    Farrell Dyde – Too Early Face
    Richard Foerster – Divas
    Richard Foerster – The View
    Tom C. Hunley – Ecstacy
    Naomi Ruth Lowinsky – Mae West Is What They Call Your Hills
    Don Meredith – Kikuyu Grass
    Jim Murphey – Stag Hollywoodland
    Larry D. Thomas – Chessman
    Larry D. Thomas – Hot Pink, Day-Glo Chartreuse, and Electric Blue
    Larry D. Thomas – The Hours
    Larry D. Thomas – Tempera
    Larry D. Thomas – The Miners
    Adam Vines – The Motel Room

    Reviews
    Donna Acquaviva – John Michael Cumming's The Night I Freed John Brown
    Janet McCann – Sybil Pittman Estes' Labyrinth
    Phillip Parotti – John C. Waugh's One Man Great Enough
    Jack Smith – Joe Benevento's My Puerto Rican Past

  • Volume 28 Numbers 3&4
    Volume 28, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2007

    Fiction
    John Waddy Bullion – Who Goes With Ferg?
    Tracy Daugherty – The Inhalatorium
    David Galef – At The Paradise Club
    Ken Holland – Hey, Rooster

    Essays
    Brooke Hovarth – Why Joyce Kilmer Is Not Allen Ginsberg
    Robert Phillips – A Rare Friendship
    Sam Pickering – Looking Good

    Poetry
    Douglas Basford – Ash, Red, Ash
    Robert Brickhouse – Days at the Store
    T. Alan Broughton – Wreckage
    Janet Cannon – Day Laborers
    Michael Cleary – The Prodigal Son's Brother
    Nick Conrad – The Tale of Our Leaving
    Kevin Cutrer – Butcher
    Steve De France – Pecos, Texas: 1961
    Kendall Dunkelberg – Goldenrod
    Myron Ernst – On Marcel Prous and Time Wasted
    Erica Miriam Fabri – The Smallest Bird on Earth
    Erica Miriam Fabri – The Third Miscarriage of Marilyn Monroe
    Clifford Paul Fetters – Roustabouts
    Robert A. Fink – And Having Found
    Robert A. Fink – What We Do in the Poetry Workshop
    Carolyn Tourney Florek – Cardinal Mother
    Beth Gylys – For My Father
    Beth Gylys – What Drives Us
    Patrick Hicks – Footprints on the Moon
    Scott Hightower – Mercy
    Swep Lovitt – London
    Ed Madden – Rock Collection
    Pauline T. Newton – De Grazia's Flower
    Paulann Petersen – Snake-Handler
    Paulann Petersen – Storytime
    Deseree Probasco – Dandelion
    J. Stephen Rhodes – Dead Again
    Margie McCreless Roe – The Black Dresses
    Mary Jane Ryals – They Showed Me the Creek
    John Savoie – Weed
    Marcus Smith – Direct Presentation
    Marcus Smith – Invisible Man
    Georgia Syribeys – The Sea
    Nathan Whiting – The Gull Forgets the World
    Nathan Whiting – The Last View of Dorsey's Gallery on Roger's Ave.

  • Volume 28 Numbers 1&2
    Volume 28, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2007

    Fiction
    Charles Baxter – There Will Come a Day When Sacred Ilion Shall Perish (1864)
    Kathy Flann – Profile of the Addict
    W.P. Osborn – Rope
    Nicholas Rinaldi – Twisting Shadows and Shades of Gray

    Essays
    Casey Clabough – The Primary Story: George Garrett's Initiation Fiction

    Poetry
    Maureen Alsop – Holy Holy
    Al Basile – Fishing With Sock
    Al Basile – Tipping the Scales
    Stephen C. Behrendt – Beggars
    Alan Berecka – The Theology of Dodge Ball
    Denise Bergman – Oz Again
    Allan Douglass Coleman – Speaking to You, Mother, Now
    Robert Cooperman – Cute
    Barbara Crooker – Janis
    Barbara Crooker – Line
    James Doyle – At the Water Tower
    Tom Dvorske – "Little Girl in Pink with Goblet with Stawberries: A Portrait"
    Timothy Fox – Buddha Transplant
    Gregory Fraser – Beliye Nochi, St. Peterburg
    Danielle Hanson – To You, Beautiful Old Woman
    Peter Harris – The Master Asks, "How Does On Become Enlightened?"
    Ava Leavell Haymon – How Melchior Decided on Myrhh
    Jean Hollander – Counterpoint
    Anne Ward Jamieson – On Reading Tat Each Apple Has Five Seeds
    James Davis May – Untitled Drawing, 1987
    Missy-Marie Montgomery – Aubade
    Annabelle Moseley – Allegory of a Library
    Elisabeth Murawski – The Jogger
    Christian Nagle – Translationof Chuya Nakahara's "Homecoming"
    Christian Nagle – Translationof Chuya Nakahara's "The Moment of Death"
    Fred Ostrander – The Box
    Fred Ostrander – The Fish
    Kathleen O'Toole – Trust
    Pit Menousek Pinegar – Preservation
    Pamela Porter – Abandoned Hospital for the Insane
    Rush Rankin – Air Power
    Jamie Ross – Cell Phone. Father. Assisted Care
    Jamie Ross – I Open His Book
    Richie Smith – Cremation of a Memory
    Richard Spilman – Fish Tale
    Richard Spilman – Impromptu on Time
    Judith Strasser – A Realist Confronts Spring Shaggy Manes (Caprinus Comatus)
    T.N. Turner – Yarrow, Like Capitalism
    Brandi Willis – Art
    Charles Wyatt – My Youngest Son and I Bury Our Old Cat
    Fred Yannantuono – Bridge Jumping
    Fredrick Zydek – Going to the Old City Zoo

  • Volume 27 Numbers 3&4
    Volume 27, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2006

    Fiction
    L. Baines & Gregory Stanley – Corpus Christi
    Patrick Lindsey Bowles – In Texas
    Andrew Geyer – Lesser Mountains
    Brandon Reynolds – Buried Treaure
    Jack Smith – Bloodsport

    Non-Fiction
    Don Meredith – Extravagant Silences: A Memoir
    Jane P. Moreland – The History of Dogs
    Robert Pope – Green's History

    Poetry
    Claudia Burbank – Holding Pattern
    Christopher Carr – Christine
    John Randolph Carter – I Think of Cary Grant
    R.T. Castleberry – Silence as Well
    Michael Cirelli – On Turning 30
    Jim Daniels – Petrified
    Thomas Dukes – Odella at Eighty
    Janet Flora – Missing
    Jeff Grinnell – At The Paradise, 1985
    Marc Elihu Hofstadter – Baths
    David L. Hyde – Confessions of a Lonely Soldier
    Naton Leslie – Visiting Jim Beam
    Naton Leslie – Emma Stays in the House
    Lenore Mayhew – Night Song
    Ann McGovern – Aftermath
    Ann McGovern – The Yellow Leaf
    Robert Parham – Gaining Ground
    Robert Parham – Seeing Beyond the First Field
    Francis Schenkkan – To Be a Cowboy
    Peter Serchuk – Hot Rod
    Linda Swanberg – The Lilac's Dream
    Larry D. Thomas – Tree Stump
    Sonny Williams – Brute Beauty
    Arnie Yasinski – Paradise Was a Real Place

    Reviews
    Larry D. Thomas – Hard Country (Paul Christensen)
    Daniel Sellers – Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug Smuggler (Don Henry Ford, Jr.)

  • Volume 27 Numbers 1&2
    Volume 27, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2006

    Fiction
    Marlin Barton – Beneath A Dark Window
    Jonathan Cannon – The Auction
    Marie Mutsuki Mockett – Mean Something To Me
    Ross Taylor – Revolution Blues: A Tale of the Seventies

    Essays
    Laurie Champion – Step Right Up
    Don Meredith – The Painter and the Thief

    Poetry
    Jeffrey Alfier – Last Words to my Daughter Transporting a Foal
    Carl Auerbach – To a Son Lost to Madness
    Gay Baines – Raking Leaves
    Eileen Berry – Infinite Blue
    Judith Cody – Ward
    Kendall Dunkelberg – Time Capsules
    Kendall Dunkelberg – Alalia
    Kendall Dunkelberg – Native Prairie
    Myron Ernst – On Looking for the Church of San Fransisco de Asis
    Jon Fink – For the Sisters of Charity Orphanage
    Jon Fink – The Lost Child
    Charles Freeland – Wan Study
    Jonathan Harrington – Alba
    Jonathan Harrington – Jockey's Lament
    Michael L. Johnson – Elvis in Las Vegas
    Kenneth O'Keefe – An Innocent Deterred
    Julie King – Cooking for the In-Laws
    Mary Julia Klimenko – Dogs in the Night
    Stephen Malin – The Spring
    Erika Mikkalo – Candy
    Aimee Parkison – Ashes to Ashes
    Dave Parsons – Speechless
    Paulann Petersen – According to DNA
    Peter S. Poland – Salam and Bamberg
    Daniel Polikoff – Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds
    Daniel Rifenburgh – Wild Turkeys at Paisano
    David Salner – When I Was A Thing
    Ralph Tyler – Young/Old Man
    Charles Webb – Student of Applause
    Don Young – O'Keeffe in Taos
    Jill Wright – Confession

    Reviews
    Paul Christensen – Blue, Candled in January Sun (Sybil Estess)
    Sybil Estess – Radiance (Barbara Crooker), Pascal Goes to the Races, & Emily's Dress (Janet McCann)
    Iris Rozencwajg – The Sleep Accusations (Randall Watson)
    Bonny Barry Sanders – Hardboot: Poems New and Old (Vivian Shipley)
    Daniel Sellers – Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug Smuggling Cowboy (Don Henry Ford, Jr.)
    Larry Thomas – Hard Country (Paul Christensen)
    Robert Zaller – Identity Club: New and Selected Stories (Richard Burgin)

  • Volume 26 Numbers 3&4
    Volume 26, Numbers 3&4, Fall/Winter 2005

    Fiction
    Gary Fincke – The Promises of Labels
    Louis Gallo – No Second Troy
    Lisa Gschwandtner – Josie, In Dreams & a Day
    Peter Hixson – Only The Wind
    Carolyn Osborn – The Zannies
    Tom Whalen – The No Blues Man

    Essays
    Chris Gavaler – Paperback
    Paul A. Trout – "How Countless Your Sins:" Anti-American Rhetoric and the Prophetic Tradition

    Poetry
    Sybil P. Estess – Texas Memorial
    Sybil P. Estess – Library Sestina
    Richard Foerster – Passover
    Stephen Haven – Cutting the Tree
    Ted Kooser – Smoke Rings
    Steve Orlen – Among the Arts
    Stephen Philbrick – As the Waves
    Jeremy Robinson – A Good Season for Poetry
    J. Allyn Rosser – 213th Angel to Be Sighted by a Poet
    Larry Rubin – Given: Life Is Not Linear
    Tony Sanders – Window Washing After Dark VIII & IX
    Ethan Stebbins – The Day the Metaphor Began
    Susan Tenaglia – The Lawn Chair Man
    Jim Tilley – Pencil Sketches for Ms. Stone
    Robert Tinajero – Hope
    Jerry Williams – Poem for My Godson

    Reviews
    Andrew Geyer – Nevin's History (Jim Sanderson)
    Roger Jones – Danger on Peaks (Gary Snyder)
    Phillip Parotti – 20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War (John C. Waugh)
    Daniel Rifenburgh – Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Peter Turchi)
    Paul Ruffin – Disgrace to the Profession (Gretchen Kauffman and Charles Newton)

  • Volume 26 Numbers 1&2
    Volume 26, Number 1&2, Spring/Summer 2005

    Fiction
    Philip Gould – Café Lafayette
    William Harrison – Money Whipped
    Don Meredith – The Greatcoat
    Michael Smith – Dos Mujeres
    Steve Yates – Hunter, Seeker

    Essays
    Calder Willingham – How To Write Novels and Screenplays

    Poetry
    Dick Allen – Shareware
    Wendy Baker – Old Anniversary
    Jay Bridges – Henry James at Graceland
    Michael Cleary – Boss's Son
    Chad Davidson – On the Just and the Unjust
    Chris Dunn – Mass
    Ben Greer – Rhapsody
    Michael Hardin – Man Rising
    Stephen Haven – Hawthorn
    Tony Hoagland – The Story of the Story of My Marriage
    Julie King – Ghazal for Jasper, Texas
    Ted Kooser – The Unread Books
    Norbert Krapf – The Hay Baler
    Jared Leising – Pictures Never Taken
    Lou Lipsitz – Captured by the Poem
    Thomas Luedtke – Earring
    Al Maginnes – The Varieties of Silence
    James Magorian – The Knife Thrower's Assistant
    Anne McGrady – Vicarious
    Peter McNamara – Rejection Slip
    Wayne Miller – Translation of Moikom Zeqo's "The Mermaid
    Wayne Miller – Translation of Moikom Zeqo's "Trouble"
    Kevin Pilkington – Afterlife
    Jim Richards – Reflection from My Future
    Jamie Ross – Fan Blade
    Ethan Stebbins – Portraits of the Artist
    Monique Stevens – Four Haiku
    Ron Thomas – Underneath
    Alexandria Wilder – Making Friends at the Circus
    Gary Charles Wilkins – Boy's Haircut Seen at a Street Party
    Gary Charles Wilkins – Brother John in the High Corn

    Reviews
    Andrew Geyer – Where Skulls Speak Wind (Larry D. Thomas)
    Barcley Owens – Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat (Paul Zarzyski)
    Paul Ruffin – Tales from Kentucky Lawyers (William Lynwood Montell)
    Robert Winship – Parade of Days (James Freeman)




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