Fall 2012 Table of Contents
selections from Because You Love You Fall Apart by Bianca Stone
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_____Comics
Two Views: Duke Street and Two Views: Wes and the Dead Bird by Joellen Craft
_____I found you/ something dead, something/so full of potential
_____Poetry
Crest by Susan McCarty
_____The car and everything in it radiates a dull, sick heat.
_____Nonfiction
Honeysuckle Ghost in the First Baptist Church Back Pew by J. Scott Brownlee
_____I believe in this world,/and this town,/ and each face in it as you do God.
_____Poetry
Afria Talks to You by Delicate Steve
_____Jukebox
An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming by Christopher Adamson
_____We’re bearing witness to the time we live in and how it’s different from any other time in history
_____Interview
cincinnati by Alexander Chisum
_____she thinks about killing/ time. how 9:59 a.m. murders/ 9:58 a.m.
_____Poetry
The Portent by Stonewall and the Jacksons
_____Jukebox
What I Saw in Room 319 by Sylvan Allen
_____Not fingernail clippings, but a whole fingernail, pulled from the root and crusty shovel-side up.
_____Fiction
Never-Ending Birds by Sandra Marchetti
_____ I swallow, lift at my chest where the freckles/crack, where the wet wings gleam.
_____Poetry
No. I Don’t Regret Anything At All. Because My Life. Today It All Begins With You by Samuel Hanson
_____Dance
Little Exercise by Michael Marberry
_____ You cannot write/about the body because you worship the body.
_____Poetry
In the Lava Tubes by Ashley Rose Davidson
_____I spun around, then stood still, listening for the snap of a twig, the brush of a branch catching sleeve
_____Fiction
My Drawling by Alice Bolin
_____ I used the brittle prairie colors/of our teenage July
_____Poetry
Lawn Knives by Born Gold
_____Jukebox
Mowing art by Kevin Somers,
story adaptation by Heinz Insu Fenkl, from the memoir by Stefan P. Kruszewski
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_____Comics
Rick Santorum by Michael Meyerhofer
_____ Poetry has a personal objection to pornography,/ not to mention condoms
_____Poetry
Jesus Gonna Do His Best by J. Roddy Walston and the Business
_____Jukebox
Super Tuesday by Nate Marshall
_____Oral Poetry
An Interview with Dan Chaon by Claire Jimenez and Elizabeth Furlow
_____To me the suspense line is like the drum. That’s what holds everything together.
_____Interview
Resettlement by Jacob Newberry
_____sometimes I am dreaming/and when I am dreaming the goats are calling
_____Poetry
The Night of Joe by Joe Harkenrider and t.j. Peters
_____Film
Parable and Three Women by Rosanna Oh
_____On the porch,/ he lit the match/ and she held the letter still/ until the ashes broke.
_____Poetry
The Ripping Wood written by Matthew Erman and illustrated by Lisa Sterle
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_____Comics
The Hospital Room by George Moore
_____It’s better not simply to imagine/ the bleached walls as shorelines,/ the antiseptic smell of after-death,
_____Poetry
Good Boy by Town Hall
_____Jukebox
Cover Art by Bianca Stone