ISSUES | spring 2012
35.1 (Spring 2012): "Blood Relations"
Featuring the winners of the 2011 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, as well as work by Steve Gehrke, Jessica Francis Kane, Thomas Pierce, Mark Wunderlich, Mako Yoshikawa, and Dave Zoby… and an interview with David Milch.
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Interviews
May 10 2012
A Conversation with David Milch
I expect that most of the human journey is involved with figuring out what the borders are and determining which one to cross and which ones to stay away from… read more
Reviews
May 10 2012
The Songs of the Maniacs: Four Books on Madness and Creativity
Includes reviews of: Manic Depression and Creativity. D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb. Prometheus Books, 1998, 230 pp., $24 (paper). Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Mind. Kay… read more
Art
May 10 2012
"If Ever I Cease to Love": The Pageantry of Carnival Costume Designs
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Poetry
May 10 2012
Poetry Feature: Mark Wunderlich
“Stone Arabia”
“A Servant’s Prayer”
“Sand Shark”
“Opening the Hive”
“Prayer for a Journey by Sea”
“Cat Lying in the Grass”
Poetry
May 10 2012
Poetry Feature: Steve Gehrke
“Visitation”
“Paracusia”
“Rapture Day”
Fiction
May 10 2012
The Essentials of Acceleration
I’m a good driver, and by this I don’t just mean safe. Like a good runner who doesn’t waste motion in her stride, I maneuver my car with dexterity and… read more
Fiction
May 10 2012
Grasshopper Kings
His son flings the stick behind the hedges when he spots the car approaching. Flynn is home late again. The boy is on the front lawn in a shirt with… read more
Nonfiction
May 10 2012
Leftovers, 1993
Interstate 64 from Richmond, Virginia, to Newport News tunnels through thick and silent stands of pitch pines. Occasionally there are breaks in the trees, and the traveler glimpses a farmhouse,… read more
Nonfiction
May 10 2012
My Father’s Women
When I drove my sisters back to town from the lawyer’s three days after our father’s death, it took a while for us to arrive at the subject of his… read more
Poetry
May 10 2012
Poetry Feature: David Kirby
“Siberia”
“The Hate Poem”
“If Any Man Have an Ear”
“Let Him Listen”
“Senior Coffee”
Nonfiction
May 10 2012
The Kuhreihen Melody
Winner of the 2011 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Essay. Sometimes, while drifting off to sleep, I play a game with myself. I imagine myself in Bethel, Connecticut, my… read more
Fiction
May 10 2012
Unintended
Winner of the 2011 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Fiction. Shinji arrived at his cousin’s house early Monday afternoon after a four-hour train ride from Tokyo. His cousin’s wife,… read more
Foreword
May 10 2012
Blood Relations
When one sets about doing harm, the people most likely to be hurt are the ones across the table, if only by reason of proximity. Look up quotes on the… read more