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VOLUME 14, 2008 The Movies IssueVolume 14, Number 2Guest Editors Jurgen Fauth and Marcy Dermansky(click for PDF file) 
The 2007 Prize IssueVolume 14, Number 1(no longer available as PDF file) VOLUME 13, 2007 The Hyperextended FamilyVolume 13, Number 4, Fall 2007Guest Editor: Darlin' Neal Darlin' Neal Introduction Nikki Bazar Orphans Alice K. Boatwright Survivors Kim Chinquee Wiener T. J. Forrester Hand Me Down Blood Heather Fowler A Cat for Greta Tiff Holland The Boys Liesl Jobson One Hundred Babies Jeff Landon Harmony and Eggs Jana Martin Painter Mary Miller Full Nathan Oates Theft Jim Ruland Redshanks Regrets Claudia Smith Jennies Michael F. Smith You and Peggy and That Dog Girija Tropp No Strange Circle Girija Tropp Paradise Beach Joan Wilking Hush New Fiction IssueVolume 13, Number 3, SummerGuest Editor: Gary Percesepe Gary Percesepe Introduction Jane Armstrong Putting Water Into the Air Ann Beattie My Life At The Very Top Kim Chinquee Shot Girls J. A. Chisum The Parable of Casper and Paul Clark John Holman Vacation K. Kvashay-Boyle Not Me Shot Dead Mark Lafferty Song and Dance Jeff Landon Lifelike Baby Girls Tao Lin The Existentially Fucked Megamouth Shark Tao Lin Tao Lin Mary Miller Even the Interstate Is Pretty Bonnie Nadzam Rex Hannah Pittard Some Nights Theodore Ross Frankie the Coyote Vinnie Wilhelm The Crying of the Gulls The Prose Poem IssueVolume 13, Numbers 1&2, WinterGuest Editor: Julia Johnson Julia Johnson Introduction Sally Ashton He will make intimate suggestions— Michael Benedikt The Adventures of Resentment Michael Benedikt Kitchen Scenes Robert Bly Thinking of Hansel and Gretel Mark Budman To My Love Jack Christian Reporter Wyn Cooper My Future R. H. W. Dillard In the Silent Secret Dark Russell Edson The Moonlighters Russell Edson Myopia Jennifer Grotz A Day So Empty Bob Hicok Repast and future Lesle Lewis April Carsten Rene Nielsen Shadow Iustin Panta These Sleeping Pills Contributors Notes
VOLUME 12, 2006 Postmodern PulpVolume 12, Number 4, FallGuest Editor: Anthony Neil Smith Anthony Neil Smith Introduction Nick Mamatas The Bloodied Woman Paula Bomer Breasts John Gorman Bones Brigade R. Narvaez Unsynchronicity Adam Cushman Felonies for which I was Never Apprehended: Chapter Eighty-Four. Jeremiah Granden Thierry and Anouk Ray Banks The Last Kayfabe Richard Madelin The Girl at the Next Bench Craig McDonald Sheriff Andy Goes To Hell Kilean Kennedy True Up Partly True StoriesVolume 12, Number 3, SummerGuest Editor: James Whorton, Jr. James Whorton Jr. Editor's Introduction Matt Briggs Flag Ceremony Kim Chinquee Farmer Jill Christman Three Takes on a Jump Pia Z. Ehrhardt When I Lived There Steve Fellner Marrying Mom Julia LaSalle Right Shoe Inman Majors First Bike Ride; Queen; Bus Stops Jeff McNeil The Loneliest of Nouns Anne Panning Surprise Jack Pendarvis The Train Going Back Gary Percesepe Robert Kennedy as Remembered by Jean Baudrillard Theodore Ross The Abandoned Brothel Dayne Sherman Man Enough to Buy a Gun Claudia Smith Slip Theresa Starkey The Will Kevin Walters Visit Home: March, 2006 Diana Wynne Dostoevsky and the Idiots Stories of MexicoVolume 12, Number 2, Spring 2006Guest Editor: Peter Theis Peter Theis Editor's Introduction Miriam Wolfe Laughlin Who's That Standing There? Dennis E. Thompson Conquistador Sara Fasy My Mexican Cars Marty McLennan Why I Almost Threw My Bike Into The Sea Of Cortez Wayne Rapp Un Coyote Juan Carlos de la Parra Musicology Sandra Kolankiewicz El Circo Nicholas Sorlien Worlds Between Cities Mark Cox Ta Da Richard Cordaway A Goat, a Boat, and a Wad of Cash A. McIntyre The Cutter Andrea Saenz Everyone’s Abuelo Can’t Have Ridden With Pancho Villa Marvyn Petrucci Rip Off Frederick Zackel When You Least Expect It, A Jackrabbit Pops Up Laura Polley Pyramid Of The Sun Darlin’ Neal XEROC 80, Juarez, Mexico David Camps The Agent Irene Keliher The Other Border The Literary NowVolume 12, Number 1, Winter 2006Guest Editor: Jane Armstrong
VOLUME 11, 2005 The New AmericaVolume 11, Number 4, Fall 2005Guest Editor: Gary Percesepe Gary Percesepe Editor's Introduction Nagham F. Awadallah I Don't Remind You of Anyone Christopher Bakken Three Poems Linwood Barclay What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya’s Moves? Gayle Brandeis Stewarding Liberty Noam Chomsky Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste M.M. DeVoe Plague Mice John D. Goldhammer Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde: The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush Jeff Halper The Narrow Gate to Peace Thom Hartmann You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government Harry Kreisler War of the Worlds, Then and Now Michael Lerner Interview with Martin Marty Matt Mason Code Orange Bill Moyers 9/11 And The Sport of God Danielle Poe Reality America Tala A. Rahmeh Being Palestinian Curtis Smith We Care! Glen H. Stassen Just Peacemaking Dan Stryk Lines for Our National Forecasters Jere O’Neill Surber Europe’s America Today: A Little Help for Our Friends? Ann Marie Tate We the People Jim Wallis God's Politics: A Better Option Howard Zinn Unacceptable Regimes in Iraq and the United States Location/Dislocation IssueVolume 11, Number 3, SummerGuest Editor: Ken Foster Holiday FictionVolume 11, Number 2, Spring 2005Guest Editor: Carrie Hoffman High Pulp IssueVolume 11, Number 1, Winter 2005Guest Editor: Anthony Neil Smith
VOLUME 10, 2004 Poetry & Politics
Volume 10, Number 4, Fall 2004Editors: David Chester & Phillip Ischy David Chester & Phillip Ischy Editors' Introduction Roy Jacobstein Note to You from Kathmandu Evan Peterson Footnotes on Early Twenty-First Century Pop Culture David Oliveira God Comes to the Tachi Amy Shearn Luck (The Election) Jim Barton One Night at a Pak-a-Sak in Iraq (or, No Need to Put That in a Bag, Dad) Liesl Jobson Strelitzia; At the Home of a Colleague from the Child Protection Unit; Vocal Warm-up at the Co-Op Mimi McDonald Four Lu-shihs of War Richard Fein A Brief Lecture on the Physical Chemistry of the Diamond Martin Rock They’ll Be Contacting Me; Baby’s Buyback and the Cowboy-Man Arlene Ang Animal; God Decides to Take the Train Daniel Borzutzky Henry Kissinger's Acceptance Speech for the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize J.P. Dancing Bear Gacela of the Heart in Darkness Amari Hamadene After Your Sickness . . . What Remains?; Today M. Ayodele Heath A Sharecropper’s Pantoum Clay Matthews Reflections of Red in an Aquarium David Sherman At the Merry-Go-Round James Wagner [Dear P.] HappinessVolume 10, Number 3, Summer 2004Edited by Jane Armstrong Jane Armstrong, Editor's Introduction Agi Mishol (Lisa Katz, trans.), Monday Richard Grayson, Seven Men Who Made Me Happy Spider Thorndal, Mort, My Friend Janine Cipolaro, What To Do Holly Pettit, Oh Lordy, What Now? Peggy Newland, Snowmobiler Boy Nathan Parker, This is an Jessica Girard, Frustrated Dispersal Sean Barry, Second Letter to Jenny Dinty W. Moore, Transparent Eyeball Jamey Gallagher, In Front of the Pond Jenn Habel, And Then, of Course, There’s Hope Dorothee Lang, what it is, what it isn’t is Matthew Summers-Sparks, Sunshine Rebecca Givens, Verso Jess Koski, Surprises Jason Silverstein, How Splatter Paint Turned to Aubade Chris Arthur, The Dagger in the Flesh and the Alchemy of Happiness Dr. Nancy Etcoff, Syllabus: The Science of Happiness Chris Bachelder, Notes Toward a Lay Report on the Joy Debt Shelley Ettinger, Mania Allen Woodman, This Bird Has A Secret Pocket | The Television IssueVolume 10, Number 2, Spring 2004Edited by James Whorton Jr. James Whorton Jr. Editor's Note Sommer Browning Quiet Night at Home Poem Pia Z. Ehrhardt Ski-Doo Andrea Hewitt When My Parents Were a Couple Reeves Keyworth Audition for a Commercial, West Los Angeles Vandana Khanna American Horror Amy King Evening In; The Late Show Effect Laura Levin Public Display of Affection Adrian C. Louis Arse Poetica Dianne McKnight Television Gary Percesepe Reload; Me, Watching David Pollock Winston Beak Claudia Smith Galveston Anna Ziegler What's on TV Special Issue: Politics 2004Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2004Edited by Gary Percesepe Gary Percesepe
Introduction to the Politics 2004 Issue EssaysBrother John of Taize One More Missed Opportunity? Walter Wink Globalization and Empire Al Gore Remarks to MoveOn.org Noam Chomsky Invasion as Marketing Problem: The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy Jim Wallis Dangerous Religion: George W. Bush's Theology of Empire Rabbi Michael Lerner Closed Hearts, Closed Minds Tony Campolo Evangelical Zionists vs. George Bush Merold Westphal The Fonda Fallacy All Over Again Bruce Jackson Media and War: Bringing It All Back Home Wayne Madsen Wag the Turkey: Surprise Thanksgiving Dinner at 6 AM? Duane Shank The Project for a New American Empire John D. Goldhammer Why the Bush "War on Terror" is Fated to Fail Ben Tripp Conspiratorial Reading: How Bush Can Still Win Fran Shor Groping the Body Politic: Arnold's California Putsch Mark Zepezauer Why the Right Hates America James Whorton Jr. My Time Machine Amy Halloran War Boys PoetryJefferson Adams A Face Familiar To Me Once; White Crucifixion Shane Allison On Dreaming of Kyle Secor Naked When Terrorists Flew a Plane Into The World Trade Center George Drew Crocket in Babylon Shelley Ettinger Three Poems John Guzlowski Two Poems Admiel Kosman Lament for the Ninth of Av Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Lament for 20th-Century Air Travel Sandra Novack Things I Did After 9-11; Ribbons Jason Silverstein Confession Ginger Strand New World Order S. Asher Sund Security V. Alan White Randall Terry Meets His Maker FictionSefi Atta Toward the End Josh Capps Bus Rose-Anne Clermont Patriot Corin Cummings Escape from an Arid Dreamland Erika Dreifus Floating Julia Elliott Jaws Karen McBryde The Hot Spot Tony O’Brien To Live and Work G. David Schwartz In The Tavern Laura Ellen Scott The Cool Aunt Related ReadingsThe National Security Strategy of the United States of America The National Strategy for Homeland Security President's Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended President Bush Meets with Troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving Barneycam: See the President’s dog.
VOLUME 9, 2003 Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 2003 James Robison The Late Style Christopher Helmuth Tulip Tom Drury Thanksgiving Alyson Hagy Graveyard of the Atlantic Craig Nova Rattlesnake Elizabeth Gilbert Tall Folks Robert Olen Butler "Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac" John Biguenet Paper Dolls Thom Jones Rocket Man James Poniewozik The Monitor Ben Marcus The Golden Monica Susan Hubbard Why I Have to Marry the Pool Guy Stacey Richter The Beauty Treatment David Alexander Decoys, The Frequency Rick Bass Fiber W.T. Pfefferle Two poems Vicki Hendricks Gators Kiki DeLancey Putch Sandra Kolankiewicz Shark in a New Age Sea Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 2003Guest Editor: David Chester Mandy Coe Staring For Beginners John Craun And Spring Marc Levi On The Grass Oswald LeWinter The Spear of Longinus Barbara Hamby Ode on My Waist; Ode on My Terrariums; Flesh, Bone, and Red Tom Jungerberg A Photograph Taken at the End of the World; Hooch David Kirby Ignoble Phiz; . . . Alas, Not by Johannes Brahms Kirsten Smith She Got Away and Came Back Rita Mae Reese The Zookeeper’s Daughter Drives to the Store; The Alchemist’s Daughter Learns to Masturbate Bryan Walpert Recalling Your Explanation of the Differences Among Lepidoptera Jillian Weise How the Dumb Were Granted the Right to Have Sex James R. Whitley Bodily Ptim Callan We Built Things Brandon Cornett Walter Beedee, Metaphor Man Manuel Gonzales The Mouth Scott O. Handy White Flight Micaela Myers Lines Christopher Helmuth Tulip Patricia Klindienst Three Moments Upon Waking Jack Pendarvis The Astonishing Gentleman Jon Pineda Blind Spot Greg Sanders Mr. Hallucinosis Kevin Wilson Book of You THE CRIME ISSUE VOL 9 NO 2: SPRING 2003Guest Editor: Anthony Neil Smith Owen Cecil Rack Hard
Paula Bohince Johnstown
Chris Allen Clark How I abducted My Elusive Migraine Queen
Amy Halloran The Crime of Writing
Elizabeth Anne Hatmaker Norton, Jan. ‘47
Jack Howland Hoover’s Dad
Doug Lawson Jersey Devils
Edward C. Lynskey The Hanoi Hilton
J. K. Mason Family Tree
John Minichillo Two Lifetime Members of the N.R.A. Who Loved Guns and Life Itself
Wendell Ricketts The Way It Happens
Laura Ellen Scott Petey Prickles vs. Funeral Steve: An ALL-NEW Petey Prickles Caper!
Paul A. Toth Oats
Scott Wolven Eight Ball
Frederick Zackel Mario and Cheryse THE MUSIC ISSUE VOL 9 NO 1: WINTER 2003Guest Editor: W.T. Pfefferle Fiction Scott Southwick: #1
Steven Carter: Mr. Good
Lacey Galbraith: 2/3 Golden Mean and a Chord
Jeff Reichman: Weird
Mark Budman: A Patriotic Angel
A.C. Koch: Some Kind of Blue
Joseph Young: Oh, That Magic Feeling
Marcelle Heath: I'm doing nothing wrong
Joe Burton: Malachi Phonoferous: Soloist
Leslie Stella: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Cinderella? Poetry Jason Stumpf: Analog
Ian Christopher Hooper: At night I can hear the darkness...
David L. McNaron: Three poems
Paul Guest: On the Origins of Modern Atomism
Barbra Nightingale: Three poems
Chris Patrick Morgan: The Dimwitted Organist
VOLUME 8, 2002 Fall 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 4Guest Editor: Gary Percesepe Gary Percesepe: Introduction Willis Blandings: Our Satellite Dish Janet Buck: Life as a House Hits Home Chad Davidson: Bird’s Eye Jason DeBoer: Edward G. Robinson; Rod Steiger Patricia Ducey: Let Us Now Prepare to Eat our Sacred Cows Robert Gibbons: Saturday Alicia Gifford: Debbie and Me Tobias Seamon: Order of the Dragon Jennifer Solow: Sex In The Movies Spider Thorndal: Spider's First Girlfriend; Tom Hanks and Daughter Lucy's Quest for Perfection; 10 Tips for Incoming Film Students Anna Tambour: Before something is camp, what do you do? Donna Scott: Continuous Showings Rick Warner: Out of Sight, Out of Mind John Warner: Man and his Madness Jon Moskowitz: Manifesto & Desire Summer 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 3Guest Editor: Jane Armstrong Benjamin Percy What Would You Rather? Kate Wheeler How it is Down Here Todd J. Colby Acts of Kindness Elizabeth Losh Sweat Jake Burdick Equidistant Shauna McKenna MacKay Richard Mitchell The Counter David Kirby Poems--Ndoki and The Higher Pantheism Stephen Schottenfeld Trick or Treat Connie Corzilius Slut Wisdom Barbara Hamby Mr. Manago's Mango Trees Clint McCown an excerpt from The Weatherman (novel in progress) Dinty W. Moore Lem Ron Carlson The Recent Vampire Attacks Spring 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 2Guest Editor: Leilani Hall Leilani Hall Introduction Kieron Devlin A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine Sandra Kolankiewicz Shark in a New Age Sea Jeff Parker Bingo Diana Griego Erwin Arched Eyebrows Chris DeBolt A Map Beyond the Edge Jim Hazard Chicken Dinner Mary Gannon Waking Las Vegas Patrick Madden Gravity and Distance Maria Proitsaki To Scandinavia, Unprepared Evelyn Posamentier: Velvet Slippers Agi Mishol To the Muses
Translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz Winter 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 1Guest Editor: Cheryl Wagner Cheryl Wagner Introduction Jay Fontenot Letters from a Mobile Jail Cheryl Wagner At Home with the Chaos Hag: An Interview with Courtney Egan Craig Taylor Three Incidents in My Drinking Life Kevin Walters The Boss Robin Grossinger Sand; In Search of a Lost Laguna; Resurvey Paul Maliszewski Riled Up--An Interview with Kathy Maliszewski Walt McDonald Aunt Florence and the Kalahari
VOLUME 7, 2001 Fall 2001 Vol 7 No 4Guest Editor: Beck Finley Beck Finley Introduction Ander Monson Freda Thinks Spring Joan Wilking Running Man Joe Garcia Snowman Vanessa Koepke So Maybe I Lied? Ulf Kirchdorfer The Waiting Room Pia Z. Ehrhardt The Water Laws Terese Svoboda Weatherproof Late Summer 2001 Vol 7 No 3Guest Editor: David Chester David Chester Introduction Steve Bellin Three Poems John E. Branseum A Poem & A Short Mark Budman To Own the Block Claudette Cohen How the Water Rolls
at a County Water Quality Meeting Brandon Cornett Graduation Rachel Flynn Four Poems Hooshla Fox Contracts Michael Ives Two Poems Kate Lutzner this crayon Valerie MacEwan Court-Appointed John Poch A Curse on the Denton Cops, the Lot of Them Tracy Scarpino Breaking the Law of Falling Bodies |