36.1
Volume 36, Number 1
Summer 2011
Cover Art (front): "Because the Past is Not the Past," acrylics and enamel, by Matt Straub
Cover Art (back): "Unfinished Business", acrylics and enamel, by Matt Straub
Table of Contents
- Editor's Notex
The 2011 Editors' Awards
- Nonfiction:
- Christopher Dickens - Resurrections13
- Tim Bascom - Checkpoint31
- Fiction:
- Renato Escudero - Barrio de mi Corazón41
- Kyle Michel Sullivan - Desert Land59
- Poetry:
- Laura Read - For the Bible Tells Me So70
- Laura Read - "A Woman Was Raped Here"72
- Laura Read - The Goose Girl74
- Timothy Geiger - Animal Soul76
- Timothy Geiger - Spells and Prayers77
- Timothy Geiger - Babicka78
Nonfiction
- Ira Sukrungruang - Wild Boys. Chicago Boys. Dumb Boys.81
- Naton Leslie - Odd Jobs87
- Stephanie Elizondo Griest - A Sort of Homecoming113
- Tony Whedon - Killings145
- Thomas C. Gibbs - Knit Hats195
- Heather Kirn Lanier - The Dentist's Girlfriend229
Fiction
- Stefanie Freele - Bread So Thick It Keeps Her Warm85
- José Skinner - Plots103
- Dana Kroos - Pillar Street161
- Laura Kasischke - The Barge179
- Roy Kesey - Wall185
- Janice Dvorak - Miramar High School, 1978201
- Diane Glancy - from The Catch203
Poetry
- Anne Barngrover - Morning After, Scorned80
- David A. Axelrod - Nelly Sachs Park, Berlin98
- David A. Axelrod - Dream of the Magic Head99
- David A. Axelrod - Impromptu100
- Cody Todd - O 15th Letter102
- Dave Nielsen - Poem at 2 a.m.112
- Terry Blackhawk - Ginkgo Autumn139
- Terry Blackhawk - Wild Bird Rescue in Key West142
- David Shattuck - Three Hiroshige Prints158
- Clay Matthews - Food City160
- Kathleen Driskell - Oyster Fork Ode168
- Kathleen Driskell - Elegy with Fruit Knife169
- Suzannah Gilman - On Living with a Famous Poet202
- Bruce Snider - Ode to the Midwest Wind228
Graphic Narrative
- Lydia Conklin - Loony170
Interview
- Tiffany Curtis - Places, People, and the Paranormal: A Conversation With Becky Hagenston132
Art
- Matt Straub - It Always Ends in Hot Lead144
- Matt Straub - Easter Sunday184
- Matt Straub - Midnight Out on the Hogbacks248
- Matt Straub - Artist Bio249
Reviews
- John Pearson - I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl, by Kelle Groom232
- Russ Kesler - Honeycomb, by Carol Frost234
- Ned Balbo - Kiss Me, Stranger, by Ron Tanner236
- Thom Dawkins - Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, by Erika Meitner239
- Erica Dawson - Panic, by Laura McCullough241
- Jonas Mueller - Everything, by Kevin Canty243
- Alex Pollack - Happy: A Memoir, by Alex Lemon245
- Contributors250