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ISSUE 8, This Everyday, Summer/Fall 2009
Fiction Mouth by Molly Tolsky Afterglow by Robert Duffer Koba’s Bad Cut by Jim Snowden Where the Bus was Going by Stephen Elliott The California Girls by Lacey Jane Henson Nonfiction Five Year Diary by Anna Wilson Phrasebook (Nanjing) by Brian Anderson Them by Bryan Furuness Receptionist by Christen Enos Tenderfoot by Emil Ferris Pillow by Claudia Smith The Little Box by Jill Christman Imagine from Dream, Imagine at Waking by Dan Beachy-Quick Slow Rotation of the Pasture by Blake Butler Poetry Six Old Guys, Fat by Dorothea Lasky After We Were Monkeys but Before We Became Fish Again by Weston Cutter The Magus, Entablature by Daniel McCann [Glossary the verses, the variations], [Until the patience breaks, stay vexed] by Rob Schlegel and Allison Titus Cholua, The Aztec, Seed by Tomaž Šalamun Kalamazoo, On the New Poetry by Greg Purcell An Actual Family by Ish Klein Reviews Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going by Damion Searls It Is Daylight by Arda Collins Hilarity by Patty Seyburn Classification of a Spit Stain by Ellie Ga INTERVIEWS and Collaborations An Interview with Dave Daley and Stephen Elliott by Caroline Picard About the Dead Man and Your Hands by Marvin Bell and Marvin Tate
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ISSUE 7, Property Lines, Fall/Winter 2008-2009
Fiction Hotel by Jill Summers Leaving India by Faisal Mohyuddin My Mother in Permacapsule by Alissa Nutting Nonfiction The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression by Kembrew Mcleod Nobody Knows Your Name by Eula Biss Not What Your Government Can Do to You, But What You Can Do to Your Government by Paul Killebrew The Acts by Shane Michalik Virgin Migrations by Mike Wolf Exhibition in Print Ed. Stacie Johnson Poetry Address to Naos by Rae Gouirand Prairie Poem with Lines from Emily Dickinson by Steve Langan XXXIII, detuned by Kate Greenstreet Qué escálando/What a Din by Pura López-Colomé The Survey ENVIRONMENTALISM Tom Bissell by Ramsin Canon Book Review Adorno’s Noise by Carla Harryman Unincorporated Territory [Hacha] by Carlos Santos Perez |
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ISSUE 6, The Experiment, Spring/Summer 2008 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
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 Dufferr Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans reviewed by Paul M. Davis
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ISSUE 4, Sister Cities: The International Issue, Winter 2007 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 Documentary by Paul Nicholas Jones (Web feature: Paul Nicholas Jones Interview) 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 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 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 Managua, 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 |