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Summer 2012

Fiction
Randall Brown - "Empty"
Patrick Swaney -  "Consignment"

Poetry
Heather Cousins - "October," "Teeth"
Hannah Riddle - "The Beginning"
Emma Sovich - "Flying Fox"
Robert West - "A Blur"
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Spring 2012

Double-sized spring poetry spectacular!

Poetry
Zena Cardman - "Truth Be Told," "Growing Up in Mobious Strip"
Christina Cook - "Sea Shards"
Emily Kendal Frey & Sarah Bartlett - "When We Cross the Street a Big Feather Flies Off Your Feather Earrings"
Jenny George - "Doll"
Kathleen Ziesler Goldman - "El Niño"
G.L. Grey - "Jealousy"
Matthew Haughton - "Ox-Eyes"
Glenn Hollar - "Summer Fragments"
Rochelle Hurt - "In the Century of Mute Tongues," "In the Century of New Skin"
Roger Pfingston - "Zoo"
David Roderick - "Dear Suburb"
Phillip B. Williams - "Trauma"
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Fall 2011

Fiction
Ron Reikki - "I Saw God Once," "From Now On I'll Just Tell Them To Read This And Then I Don't Have To Say It Anymore," "When My Cousin Gets Drunk"

Poetry
Nickolas Butler - "Grenade"
Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney - "Tips For Increasing Productivity At Work"
Anthony Opal - "Wing Note"
Francis Raven - "Taxonomy"
Peter Schwartz - "Boredom & Resurrection"
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Winter 2011

Fiction
Andrew Scott - "Lost Goods"

Poetry
Jasmine V. Bailey - "Calligraphy," "Sometime Galatea"
Mike Puican - "Binge"
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Summer 2010

Fiction
Clare Marie Myers - "Two Kinds of People"

Poetry
Maudelle Driskell - "Slingshot"
Colleen S. Harris - "The Post-Script She Doesn't Write"
Peter Jay Shippy - "Boxing Clever"
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Winter 2010

Double-sized fiction spectacular, guest-edited by Michael Martone!

Fiction
Denise Delgado - "Ready"
Diane D. Gillette - "The Rope"
Bruce Harris - "On the Ropes"
J.A. Tyler - "The Hawks"
Daniel Wallace - "How to Build a Coffin"
David Yost - "Soup"
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Fall 2009

Poetry
Emily Kendal Frey - "Signal"
Hannah Gamble - "Women Writing About Sex"
Reb Livingston - "Diminished Prophecy 10.1"
Dave Lucas - "On Catholicism," "On Film"
Matthew Olzmann - "The Days"
Samn Stockwell - "One Consolation for Monday," "Our Common History," " The Sale"
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Summer 2009

Poetry
Betty Adcock - "Skinny Poem"
Jasmine V. Bailey - "Portrait of a Young Man"
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer - "Conversation Q," "Conversation W"
Victoria Bosch Murray - "Prayer for Riding the Saco River"
Robert M. Wallace - "Sunlight on the River"
Donna Glee Williams - "Night Porch"  

Fiction
Michael McFee - "BEWARE OF GOD"
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Featuring poetry from Christopher Citro, Mary Leader, Muriel Nelson, Addie Tsai, and Michael Walsh.  Fiction by Kevin Grauke.
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Featuring poetry from Emily Kendal Frey, George Higgins, Teresa Lee, and Greg Schwartz.  Fiction by Shane Jones and Christopher Meades.
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Featuring poetry from DeLana R.A. Dameron, Zack Haber, Sarah Tuttle, Lafayette Wattles, and Robert West.  Fiction by Michael Chitwood and Thomas Cooper (sample).  
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Featuring poetry from Sara Bauer, Justin Bigos, Craig Giandomenico, and John Ward Hocter.  Fiction by Matthew Purdy.
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Featuring poetry from Emma Bolden, Clare L. Martin, Kevin McLellan, Tara Powell, and Peter Schwartz.  Fiction by Edward Porter.
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Featuring poetry from Michael Chitwood, Philip Memmer, and Jillena Rose.  Fiction by Philip McFee.
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Featuring poetry from Jeffery Beam, Sebastian Matthews, and Mischa Willett.  Fiction by Michael McFee and Cynthia Reeves.
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Our first all-poetry issue!  Featuring poems by Emma Bolden, Eric Johnson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Laura Li Ziegler, John P. Harmeling, Jonathan Greene, and Jennifer C. Manion. 
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Featuring poetry from Michael Chitwood, Ginny Komenda, Chris Tonelli, Robert West, and Mark Yakich.  Fiction by Philip McFee.
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Featuring poetry from Ellen C. Bush, Melissa Eleftherion, Michael McFee, Chris Tonelli, and Laura Li Ziegler.  Fiction by Liliana V. Blum and Will Rodriguez, translated by Toshiya Kamei.
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