Issue 17.1
SubscribeCover art
“Still Life with Five Bottles”
by Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak is an artist who was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then Poland) in 1933. Having survived the Holocaust, he lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Paris, Rome, New York, and Lausanne. In 1993 he settled in Massachusetts and became an American citizen. He exhibits internationally. His memoir, Painted in Words, was translated into several languages.
| Poetry | |
| Benjamin Sutton | from Refutations by Memory |
| Hillary C. Katz | Flood |
| Sarah Chace | Cupid & Psyche |
| Yi Lu, tr. from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain | My Own Sea |
| Nancy Carol Moody | Arcs of Detachment |
| In the Beginning | |
| Tory Adkisson | Cicadas |
| Peter Ludwin | Lima Hotel |
| Andrea Scarpino | Unemployment Reaches Record Highs |
| Richard Sime | Star City |
| Brett Foster | My Favorite, Most Savage Irony |
| “Suspicious Incident” at the Canal | |
| Albert Abonado | Birdbrain |
| On Time | |
| Roland Pease | Stick Figures |
| Kathleen Balma | A Tour of Pompeii’s Red Light District |
| William Neumire | Think of the missiles |
| Allan Peterson | Believers |
| Marie Gauthier | Motherless |
| Joel F. Johnson | The Sequence of Belief |
| Binh Nguyen | Souffle au Coeur |
| Jeanne Marie Beaumont | The Five Outer Feathers |
| Josefine Klougart, tr. by Alexander Weinstein | No Colors are Foreign |
| Katherine Hollander | Song for John |
| Linda Katherine Cutting | Vagabond |
| Lori Wilson | Canna Red and Orange |
| Frannie Lindsay | Photo Rescued from a Red Leatherette Scrapbook |
| How to Find Words for an Elegy | |
| Catherine Morocco | I Steered Clear |
| Amos Jasper Wright | Pigeon House and Barn, 1827 |
| Susan Goslee | For hundreds each evening |
| Catherine Stearns | Outside Cape Girardeau |
| Joyce Wilson | Cairo Scenes: Girl in Blue |
| Nancy Botkin | Paris Fugue |
| G. L. Grey | For Grace Hubble |
| Jingan, tr. by David Lunde & Mary M.Y. Fung | Watching the Waterfall at Ten Thousand Foot Cliff on Xuedou Peak |
| Natalie Bryant Rizzieri | Filament |
| William Palmer | Late October |
| Fiction | |
| Hester Kaplan | The Aerialist |
| Kelly Luce | The Blue Demon of Ikumi |
| Rachel Kadish | Beauty |
| Brandi Wells | The Boy |
| Reviews | |
| Valerie Duff-Strautmann | Heaven and Earth: Barbara Ras’s The Last Skin and Daniel Tobin’s Belated Heavens |
| Catherine Parnell | Complicit: Shannon Cain’s The Necessity of Certain Behaviors |
WINTER 2011/2012
