Winter 2007
New Series · Volume XXIX Number 1

contents

FICTION

• Linda Bamber • In the Forest
• Holly Goddard Jones • Life Expectancy
• Jordan Mott • The Bends
• Patrick Tobin • Cake

Nonfiction

• George Steiner • A New Literacy

Drama

• Yasmine Beverly Rana • Sniper Avenue

Poetry

• Averill Curdy • When I Was Beautiful
• Matt Donovan • Audubon Diptych
• Sarah Gorham • Vague
• Jerry Harp • His Garden Mechanical
• Ian Harris • One Hundred Poems from The Japanese
• Henry Hart • Naval Weapons Station
• Lilah Hegnauer • Canary Bird Flower in Your Chaste Tree
• Fady Joudah • Ladies and Gentlemen; The Tea and Sage Poem
• Shara Lessley • The Countervoice
• Jynne Dilling Martin • Beauty in Its Various Forms Appeals to You; Life Is Flying By
• Sandra Meek • Fracture and Regelation Theory
• Yadollah Royai translated by Haleh Hatami • Yazdgerd’s Stone; Fardid’s Stone; Talayeh’s Stone; Tahereh’s Stone; Cyrus’s Stone; Mansour’s Tomb
• Gleb Shulpyakov translated by Christopher Mattison • Untitled; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled
• Daniel Tobin • Independence Day, 2005
• Nance Van Winckel • I Leaned over the Railing
• Ellen Bryant Voigt • Rubato
• G. C. Waldrep • Evensong: All Eyes Sharper; Bergson’s Arrow; Many of Us Identify with Animals; Every Apple, Every Dreamer, Every Prime

REVIEWS

• André Bernard • The Casual Reader