Issue 45
Fiction
Deb Olin Unferth, “Minute Lives of Great Composers”
Matthew Derby, “Thirty Years of Prosperity for Every Fifteen Years of Hard Work”
Jo B. Sills, “Candied”
Brian Evenson, “Alfons Kuylers”
C. Robert Miller, Contest Winner: “Pig”
John Fried, Contest Winner: from Birthday Season
Kevin Moffett, “We, She and I”
Poetry
Melissa Monroe, “Pinocchio on Location”, “Pinocchio’s Pleasures”
Sarah Manguso, “4”, “43”
J.L. Conrad, “The Sheep, in Wool Coats, Did Not Suffer”
Sarah O’brien, from Catch Light
B.Z. Niditch, “Twelve”
James Tate, “Two Visions”, “The Native Americans.”
Melissa Kwansy, “Orpheus”, “The Ice-lit Upper World”
Terese Svoboda, “Animal Lover”
Jon Woodward, “Found Flying Prison Note”
Dara Wier, “Splendor in the Grass”, “Scorch Marks”
Mary Jo Bang, “November Elegy”, “January Elegy”,“She Remembered”
Ashley Hudson, Contest Winner: “Yodel”
Amy Beeder, “I rightfully curse the author of so pernicious a machine”, “Eyewitness”, “Leper’s Prayer”
Amaranth Borsuk, from Self Portraits, “The Nectarine’s Second Sight,” “Breadfruit”
Christian Hawkey, “The Performing Understanding”
Nonfiction
Kimberly King Parsons, Interview: The Public Consumption of Steve Almond
Roy Ekland, “Shadow War”
Carolyn Walker, from Circling Jennifer: A Mother Daughter Odyssey
Jenny Boully, “Where Even the Temples Themselves Are Yearning”
Eula Biss, “The Voice Box: Our Opera of High and Low”
Art
Dan Torop, “Ocean Beach/Ocean Beach Ocean”, “Ocean14758-00063,” “Corner Ocean”, “Controls12”
Vija Celmins, “Untitled (Ocean with Cross #1)”, “Untitled”
A.J. Bocchino, “NY Times Headlines (oil-1996-2005)”
Ed Ruscha, “Sea of Desire”, “Nova Scotia Notebook Seascapes (With Installation Image)”, “USA”
Shannon Ebner, "Nova Scotia Notebook Seascapes (With Installation Image)"
Issue 46 is out now! Featuring new work from Diane Williams, Steve Almond, and Paul Muldoon, plus an interview with Susan Orlean. Look for it in your local bookstore or order a copy online!
Phillip Lopate, Diane Williams, and other renowned writers spoke at the Journal's last event, "Writing by Numbers: A Panel Discussion on Academia and the Arts," on April 2. Watch it here.