cover of issue 5

ISSUE 5: SPRING 2009

Including Nami Mun, Joshua Beckman, Ismet Prcic, Yona Harvey, Elizabeth Crane, Dara Wier, …

FEATURED WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

JOSHUA BECKMAN:
  • [In Colorado, in Oregon, upon] (p)
  • [Red, the want, the body, slowly] (p)
  • [Gold lesson like a pearl whose vocation] (p)
CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE:
  • Beat the Ranger (p)
  • Wintry Mix (p)
ANNE MARIE ROONEY:
  • Life on the mean (p)
NOELLE KOCOT:
  • On Becoming a Person (p)
  • Fourth of July (p)
  • Love Story (p)
CAROLINE BIRD:
  • The Golden Kids (p)
ZACH SAVICH:
  • Port Angeles (p)
  • Set Up (p)
TYLER MEIER:
  • Lovesong from a Lifeboat (p)
BRANDON SHIMODA:
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle [No. twenty two] (p)
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle (p)
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle WONDERLAND, ME (p)
K.A. HAYS:
  • To a Sea Worm (p)
  • No More Cluster Fly, No Fall Warbler (p)
JOSH MORISON:
  • splice if you have to, just get it screened(p)
ALEX QUINLAN:
  • In the Ladder of Perception, the First Love is Love-Of-Vision (p)
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD:
  • The Wild and the Shot-silk Skins (p)
JENNY BROWNE:
  • The Multiple States of Matter (p)
DAVID SEWELL:
  • Now We're Really Living (p)
  • Now We're Really Living (p)
MATT ANSERELLO:
  • Impossible Performance Piece #8 (p)
MATTHEW ROHRER:
  • The Green Zone (p)
KAREN RIGBY:
  • Maps We Have Produced in Technicolour (p)
DARA WIER:
  • No Story (p)
KRISTIN AARDSMA:
  • [Move far as a redshift galaxy with ornamental (p)
BRITTANY CAVALLARO:
  • The Virgin Disambiguates(p)
SARAH PERRIER:
  • Poor Bete Noire (p)
  • The Apprenticeship (p)
ADAM ATKINSON:
  • The Costumed Smokestack (p)
  • A Cast of a Smokestack (p)
  • Town History (p)
YONA HARVEY:
  • Mother, Love (p)
ADAM CLAY:
  • from "As Complete as a Thought Can Be"(p)
MATHIAS SVALINA:
  • Everything is American (p)
  • Destruction Myth (p)
E.E. CUMMINGS
  • Special insert from the Harry Ransom Center (a)
MICHAEL PARKER AND MARK RICHARD
  • Interview
MICHAEL PARKER
  • Surplus (nf)
ELIZABETH CRANE:
  • Fear of a Terrible Wife(f)
ISMET PRCIC:
  • The Man Called Meat (f)
MATTHEW STUART:
  • Vaya Con Dios (f)
NAMI MUN:
  • Club Orchid (f)
ROBERT TRAVIESO:
  • Yes Ned, Wes Said (f)
ARNA BONTEMPS HEMENWAY:
  • Behind the Moutains are More Mountains (f)
KIERSTEN ESSENPREIS:
  • Cover Art for Issue 5 (a)

STAFF

EDITOR
  • Sebastian James Langdell
MANAGING EDITORS
  • Will Burdette
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
  • Dorothy Meiburg
POETRY EDITOR
  • S.E. Smith
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS
  • Julia Delacroix
  • Louisa Hall
  • Stephanie Shasteen
FICTION EDITOR
  • J.W. Donaldson
ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS
  • Matthew Milman
  • Martha Stallman
  • Spencer Wise
ART DIRECTOR
  • Rebecca Wadlinger
BUSINESS MANAGER
  • Maria E. Acosta
READERS
  • Catherine Blauvelt
  • Nora Boxer
  • Nicole Cullen
  • Jenny Hanning
  • Kevin Jones
  • Steve Lapinsky
  • Chris Mink
  • Trey Reginelli
  • Ryan Soelberg
  • Shao Wei
FOUNDING EDITORS
  • Jessica Piazza
  • R. J. Lambert
  • James Capozzi
ADVISORY EDITOR
  • Kurt Heinzelman