ISSUE 6, The Experiment, Spring/Summer 2008
photo by Luke Boehnke
Our Man by Lindsay Hunter
The Lost Correspondent by Mark Jay Mirsky
Play
The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. Le Monde by Tennessee Williams
Monologue
Hannie Oakley by Joyelle McSweeney
Nonfiction
Some Vonnegut by Marvin Bell
Who You’re Playing for What Stray Companions by Steffi Drewes
Unlikely by Amy Leach
Songs Against Sex by Travis Nichols
The Library of Babel: An Infinite Translation by Daniel Wuebben
Click here to see the “infinite translation” at work
Poetry
O’Alice by Danielle Aquiline
Tikrit
Oceanic by John Beer
Poem
Poem by Arda Collins
Why Am I Famous?
Why Am I Famous? What Have I Done? What Am I For? by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
Fifteen Minute Performative Masculinity New York School Name Dropping Poem for David Shapiro as Transcribed from His Interview at Pennsound
Fifteen Minute Poem for Ron Silliman by Gabriel Gudding
Off the Shoulder of Orion by Michael Robins
Interview
Gabriel Gudding interviewed by Joyelle McSweeney
Read an excerpt of Gabriel Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook
Review
The Unfortunates reviewed by Paul M. Davis
Hotel Crystal reviewed by Robert Duffer
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ISSUE 5, History in Biography, Summer/Fall 2007
photo by Scott Polach
Fiction
The Goose
The Something Something
Sweetness and the Fridge
At the Chateau Marmont, Bungalow 5
Samsonite by John McNally
Tunguska Event by Mark Lindensmith
The Iroquois by Bruce Olds
Nonfiction
Copper-Colored Yesterday by Joseph Drogos
Communicability by Kathryn Scanlan
Poetry
In the Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt
Prodigal Objects by Carolyn M. Rodgers
Three Excerpts by Joseph Donahue
Dia de los Muertos by Anne Bayse
Prayer for Azalea
The Swifts, Portland, OR by Crystal Williams
Jack McAdoo by Vida Cross
Letter to Houston: On your accents by Reginald Gibbons
mascot by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Interview
Bruce Olds interviewed by Ramsin Canon
Reviews
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burman and the Making of an American City reviewed by Robert Duffer
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans reviewed by Paul M. Davis
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ISSUE 4, Sister Cities: The International Issue, Winter 2007
photo of Mona Sasaki courtesy of Fred Sasaki
Fiction
Letter to Waffiya by Mahmoud Saeed
The Crimson Field by Rosie Malek-Yonan
Saddam and Khamini by Mahmoud Saeed
In the Time of Dreaming by Ingrid Rojas
Interview
Mike Zapata talks with Aleksandar Hemon
Gabriel Levinson talks with Eduardo Galeano
Monologue
How Ambi Became Paisley by Shailja Patel
Nonfiction
Arts and Politics, Pland by Michał Zygmunt
Issei, Nisei, Sansei by Fred Sasaki
Lonesome Heart and the Failed Community by Aleš Debeljak
Chicago’s Sister Cities Write Back (Including Web Only Content) Eds. Jaime Calder and Sarah Dodson
Poetry
It Happens All the Time (Dogaja se neprenehoma) by PrimožČučnik
Still (remix of poems and voices) (_e vedno (remiks pesmi in glasov)) by Gregor Podlogar
Silence Remains (Queda el silencio) by Leda Shiavo
Poem of Intervention _ Tongue (Wiersz interwencyjny _ Jezyk) by Adam Wiedmann)
Lesson
Exegi Monumentum by Ilya Kutik and Reginald Gibbons
Reviews
Carpentaria reviewed by Penelope McKimm
The Uncomfortable Dead reviewed by Ric Hess
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ISSUE 3, Truthiness, Spring/Summer 2006
photo by Nick Campbell
Fiction
Documentary by Paul Nicholas Jones
Oklahoma Jody by Alexander A.G. Shapiro
The Incredible Tale of Super Big Hand by L.C. Fiore
Interview
Marvin Tate talks with Alex Kotlowitz
Nonfiction
Excerpt from Never a City so Real by Alex Kotlowitz
Falling in Real Time (a work in progress) by Amber DiPietra
Passing Candy on the Sly: Women Writing in Prison by Zak Mucha
Singing Gloria by Fred Sasaki
Poetry
Modern World History / Madison by Avery R. Young
Virgin 1982 / Evening at the Trolley Stop by Krista Franklin
The Mock Florida Lectures by Catherine Theis
1707 by Idris Goodwin
The Boundaries by Jenn Morea
Little Kings by Peter Kahn
My Father’s Brother by Christina Santana
Miscegenation by Kevin Coval
Leaving Eden/ Consider the Heat at the Basketball Courts by Lucy Anderton
The Bartendress from Mobile by Michael Haeflinger
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ISSUE 2, Winded, Fall 2005
photo by Scott Polach
Fiction
The Sound Before the End of the World by Joe Meno
(Andrew) A-Z by K.B. Dixon
Monologue
The Octopi: An Excerpt from All Things Considered, a work-in-progress for one actor by Adam Langer
Interview
Marvin Tate talks with best-seller Adam Langer
Nonfiction
We Want our People / The Neighborhood Story Project: An Introduction by Abram Himelstein
Growing Up in the Sixth Ward: Before and After North Dorgenois: An Excerpt from the Book by Ebony Bolding
Always Afterward by Ramsin Canon
Cooter Brown’s / Black Hole by Ira Brooker
Poetry
Desire: 7 Modules / To His Coy Mistress by Daniel Borzutzky
Down the Road / Her Hands Float as if a Dream Were Moving Them Parade on 60 West Walton Street by Lisa Janssen
Notes Toward an Untitled Movie / Welcome, Please Come in by Michael Robins
Winning Isn’t Everything / Everything Bucolic / Poem / Crash (Encore) / Beautiful Flower of Overcast Conditions / A Hawk is on Her Heart by Matthew Rohrer
Van Helsing 2003 / McCormick’s Reaper by Robyn Schiff
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ISSUE 1, Spring 2005
print by Johnathan Crawford
Fiction
Dwelling by Christine Hoffmann
Excerpt from Simon City by Frank Mort Jr.
El Camino by Aaron Michael Morales
Nonfiction
Story I Was Telling a Downtown Audience a Couple Years Ago by Don De Grazia
Character in Nonfiction by Sara Levine
Interview
Marvin Tate interviews Iowa’s first Poet Laureate Marvin Bell
Poetry
City, This City by Bill Hillmann
blue / marriage by Della Watson
Unwound / Dutch Troops by Joel Craig
four colored pen / what to do with a fingernail after you’ve bitten it off / portrait / polaroids / snow men by Marvin Tate
Managna, January 1988 / You Never Know / Poseur / Poem Post 9/11/01: Eastern Long Island by Marvin Bell
Studies of Normal Human Brains / As far as we go by Steffi Drewes
Still Life: Loyola Park by Angela Just