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2005

Volume IX

Cover Art
Maryetta Jacques, “El Camino Rojo”

Editors
Kate Gray
Amanda Coffey
James Grabill

Contributing Editors
Paul Durica
Rick Piet

Copy Editors
Samantha Cox
Trevor Dodge
Daniel Powell
Nicole Rosevear
Tara Sprehe

Designer
Diane Angelo
     
Kate Gray Editor's Note

ESSAYS

 
Lee Gulyás Eulogy
Jessie Harriman I Come Braided
Chris Howell Reaching Beneath the Facts: A Response to the CLR Finalists
Mary Elizabeth Pope Space Mountain
Tom Spanbauer Each a Beating Heart

FICTION

 
Tim Foley Pray for War
Ryan Blacketter Horses All Over Hell
Mir Emampoor The Snake
Laurie Blauner Women and Other Small Things
Abby Figueroa My Sister the Shoplifter
Yuvi Zalkow Watch All You Want
Ronlyn A. Domingue Storyboard

POETRY

 
Josie Sigler My Mother’s Blood
Colette Jonopulos Natural Selection
Colette Jonopulos The Latitude of Grief
David Jordan War Wives
Margaret J. Hoehn Mourning Doves
Miles Waggener Brothers
Miles Waggener The Shovel Speaks
M. L. Yarber The Apricot Tree
Dianne Williams Stepp Braille
Andrew M. Roberts Bad Boy
Colin Cheney Blackberries
Joel B. Peckham, Jr. Old Math, 1984
Dan Raphael the wind is not what it seems
Aaron DeRosa Red at Night
Josie Sigler Jeanne Has Premonition Dreams
Kelle Groom One Evening
Nita Ahola Countryman The Swimmer
Jeff Walt Hex
Verlena Orr Gentian Blues
Patricia Murphy Days After
David Lunde & Mary M.Y. Fung Translation of Resounding Dust
Bian Zhilin Resounding Dust
Dawn Newton Rapunzel’s Hair
Nathaniel Scott Mrs. DiFranco’s Mail
Eliza Kelley Daughter, Mother, Hospital Woman Who Wraps Our Bodies

REVIEW

 
Ruth Ellen Kocher Review of Catherine Tufariello, Keeping My Name