archive 2009

2009:01

Fig. 14 Just As We Rarely Consider What Lies Underground, To A Mole, We Might Imagine The World Above The Surface Is A Large, Possibly Terrifying Blank
marrow; or the night you left

poetry
Patty Paine

Three Etchings
History

fiction
Daryl Scroggins

Fragments from a Statuary Garden
prose
Kathryn Rantala

Just Saying
Birthday
the untitled sea

poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

M
N
P
Q

poetry
Stacie Leatherman

Machine-Gun the Birdwatchers
fiction
Grant Munroe

& (ninety-two)
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Practical Observations
poetry
Rick Moody

Analogy of Film
fiction
Greg Mulcahy

Cheese Fondue, circa 1992
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

Junior Mints
Foreign Accent Syndrome

fiction
Meg Pokrass

Kalila
fiction
Sarah Joy Freese

for the record
poetry
Sarah Green

Here There
poetry
Chris Major

Needled
poetry
Chris Major

Cholera
poetry
Chris Major

Sweden
Another
Alone

fiction
Colin Bassett

Childbearing
fiction
Gregory Napp

DMV
fiction
Ashley Farmer

I Died in a Past Life
Meditation
Relativity Fragment

poetry
Eric Beeny

Dyslexia
fiction
Kyle Hemmings

She Did Not Immediately Get a Cat
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Mourner's Braille
poetry
Trent England

Ghosts of Breath
fiction
Howie Good

Titleist
fiction
Peggy Price

Suitcases
fiction
Tsipi Keller

Serenissima
fiction
Rachel Andelman

Self-Portrait with an Incoherent Man IV
poetry
Jason Fraley

No Retrospect for Those Not Here
poetry
Sally Molini

Cath Lab
poetry
Drew Kalbach

Driven, Keats Said
poetry
Harold Bowes

Rat
fiction
Brad Green

My Son the Rabbi
Gifts

fiction
Dave Erlewine

Perspective
poetry
Sandee Lyles

Talk
fiction
Nick Bakshi

Untitled
fiction
James Yeh

Eggnog Cookie Recipie I Wrote Down for My Wife at Her Faculty Cristmas Meeting, Furthur Adding to Her Accusation that I'm an Alchoholic.
fiction
Nathan Neely



2009:02

Untitled No. 0820026374869091
poetry
Richard McNally

The Daughters
fiction
Claire Barwise

Canvas
Hiccups

poetry
Brian Beatty

Louisa May Alcott's Father's Barn
fiction
Krammer Abrahams

Michael Kimball Asks Blake Butler Some Questions and Then Blake Butler Answers Them
interview

The Minimalist Sentences of Amy Hempel's Fiction
essay
Michael Hemmingson

Untitled #33.3
fiction
Michael Hemmingson

Lost and Found
fiction
Meg Pokrass

Pitch Yourself Thin
fiction
Orlo Yeahblip

Just a glance
Virtue

poetry
Chad Scheel

Water Water Water Cash
fiction
Tim Jones-Yelvington

A Kindly
Sunday

poetry
Steven Klepetar

The Observers
fiction
Pablo Larios

Remembering José Donoso (1924-1996)
essay
AE Reiff

Junk
fiction
Michelle Reale

Field Guide to Marie Antoinette, 1779
poetry
Elizabeth Winder

At Night (Excerpts)
poetry
Lisa Ciccarello

22 December, 2006
fiction
K.M. Weaver

Blueberries
Elliot
Secret Words

fiction
Brandi Wells

For the Moon
Stop It
It Could Have Been Serious

fiction
Kim Chinquee

Instead of flying in for her thirty-first birthday,
fiction
Molly Gaudry

Oed teevee
fiction
Christopher James

Greece
He'll write his own escape

poetry
Ivana Kilibarda

Weight
fiction
M.T. Fallon

Lazarus
poetry
Craig Awmiller

Gloves
poetry
Brian Foley

Ağaç
poetry
Andrew Wessels

Ethology
poetry
Eric Burke

Violin
Carriage

fiction
Darlin' Neal

Arabian Rug
poetry
Douglas Piccinnini

Comme il faut
poetry
Daniel Van Thomas

The Exchange
fiction
Michael Trocchia

[Untitled]
poetry
Michael Hemmingson

After C M
The Dead

poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

a peacock
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Where to Be Taken
fiction
Rozalia Jovanovic

Jar
fiction
Dave Erlewine

Saturday in Hackney
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

Tree Reader
fiction
Gabriel Orgrease

Reading Woolf
fiction
Paul Kavanagh

Beneath My House
fiction
Joe Aguilar

ouch, he says
fiction
Sasha Fletcher

A Few Simple Dreams
poetry
Mike Topp

Sal's Place
True Romance

poetry
Howie Good

(untitled)
poetry
sarah k bell

Omy's Folly
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

The Stars
poetry
Edith Södergran
Translated from the Swedish by Christian Ward



2009:03

The King of Sweden (excerpt)
fiction
Norman Lock

Slug Trail
fiction
Brian Allen Carr

Tomatoes
Persimmon Hydrangea
The waters

poetry
Sarah Mirza

Something, Fathered In the Wastes, Wormed Within the Body
fiction
John Madera

An Interview with Andrew Demcak
J. Michael Wahlgren

Tablecloth
poetry
Jon Cone

Creature
poetry
Donora Hillard

Letter from Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio to Mario Minniti, 17 July, 1610
fiction
Michael Donkin

Viral Video
fiction
Kimberly King Parsons

inconceivable wilson (2 excerpts)
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Threadbare Van Barren (sections 3-11)
fiction
Nicolle Elizabeth

Using Walnut as Cloth
poetry
Vi Nguyen

Family Day
fiction
Miles Klee

Working Life
poetry
Howie Good

A nightclub where
poetry
Chris Major

Centre
poetry
J.O. Winberry

Story from his last journey
fiction
Richard Parks

Prophecies
fiction
Mike Topp

Oh
fiction
Anya Yurchyshyn

Curve
Donuts

fiction
Matthew Salesses

Opening gives it motion
poetry
Philip Quinn

East Tennessee
fiction
Alan Rossi

In the Science Museum
Telephone Booth

fiction/poetry
Eric Beeny

The Harrowing of Hell
poetry
Edward Mullany

Whispers
fiction
Peter Cherches

Curtain
poetry
Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom

Now Let's See How Fast This Baby Can Go
fiction
Ravi Mangla

Nirvana
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

Mate: a Story in 15 Moves
fiction
Robert Castle

Errands
poetry
Ari Feld

Someone's father was a very popular figure in the '80s instructional video market but he made a few bad investments
fiction
Krammer Abrahams

Coughing in the Other Room
fiction
Dave Erlewine

I Write For
poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki



2009:04

spring
poetry
John Lindus

Sand Diary
fiction
David Cozy

Abundance
fiction
Andrew Borgstrom

Antipodal
fiction
Patrick Whitfill

Percussive Row
poetry
Forrest Roth

Notes re: The Lorelei, rocks, doom, etc.
A flashback:

fiction
Kathryn Rantala

Should: a false translation of Dirk Huelstrunk's 'Schuld'
poetry
F.J. Bergmann

Neither Song Nor Sword
poetry
Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.

untitled
poetry
audri sousa

Bright with Yellow
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Unmade
fiction
C. Robert Miller

Sick
fiction
Shya Scanlon

Burden of Proof
The Interview

poetry
Brian Beatty

Natural History #1: EN Anima Accumulation
fiction
Derek White

Identity Theft
fiction
Sasha Graybosch

Jerusalem Blake
fiction
Giambattista Marino Rubino del Sur; translated by AE Reiff

Moroccan Passageways
fiction
Eric Nusbaum

will we ever be forgiven
poetry
Lincoln Michel

Shooting Memo 23
Drunksleep

fiction
Ed Taylor

Pickled Insomnia
fiction
Paula Ray

Skid Marks
poetry
Chris Major

Anachoresis
poetry
Rufo Quintavalle

In the Cavern
fiction
Donna Vitucci

A Dismantling
fiction
J.A. Tyler

I Guess I Soured
fiction
Ryan Ridge

Underlings
fiction
Matthew Simmons

There are always children
fiction
Erin Fitzgerald

Apprentice
fiction
Rachel Andelman

Tracking TK
fiction
Richard Parks

Ghost Node
fiction
Ben Mirov

Laundry
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

In the End
poetry
Eric Burke

Ascetic
fiction
Bill Cook

Canon of Proportions
fiction
Jimmy Chen

Causeway
poetry
Jeanette M. Sayers

Staring at the Sun
poetry
Howie Good

Krishna
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

The Trade
poetry
Ben Latini

Caller ID
fiction
Eric Beeny

Haus
fiction
Bambi Almendinger

Not a Bird But a Wall
Fault

fiction
Eliza C. Walton

Reflex
Submit

poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

Everything is blurry without glasses
poetry
Kimberly Ruth

On his first flight his ears pop and then he chews on some Bubbalicious
poetry
Noah Falck

Scraps
fiction
Dave Erlewine

The Amazing Adventures of © and ®
fiction
Robert Swartwood

Two Jobs
poetry
Joseph Goosey



2009:05

Avenue of the Giants
Eighteen

fiction
Meg Pokrass

Comeuppance
Little Nothings
What is the wind
The Real Story

poetry
Stefi Weisburd

What I was saying to peeping Tom of Coventry
fiction
Pablo Larios

The Spectator
poetry
Jennifer H. Fortin

Blinding
fiction
Ethel Rohan

Ourism
poetry
Brian Beatty

On Her Hip
This Side
She Wanted to Race

fiction
Kim Chinquee

Picturing
fiction
Anji Reyner

Song of Water
poetry
Nikoletta Nousiopoulos

Hoosiers
fiction
Ryan Richey

Lulu
fiction
Kathy Fish

Up far and everywhere
fiction
Tania Hershman

Maps
poetry
Kimberly Ruth

Like Fish
fiction
Jared Hegwood

The Salesman and the Farmer
fiction
Mike Topp

Beauty to a Novice
poetry
John Joynt

Focus
Dying in April

fiction
Eliza Walton

How to Store Milk
poetry
Erika Linden Jung

To this day you can't touch Madame Curie's protective clothing
poetry
Elizabeth Zuba

El Dorado
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

Product
fiction
Randall Brown

Souvenir From Nowhere
fiction
Mel Bosworth

Waiting for Inspiration
poetry
Howie Good

A Podologist Session
Adios MFers

poetry
Nathan Logan

Tender Mercies
fiction
Roxane Gay

The sound Keith makes when he laughs
fiction
Brandi Wells

III (Reality Principle)
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

No Warm Apple Tree Anecdote
poetry
Luke Degnan

Lunch
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

Tic
fiction
Dave Erlewine

Sent
poetry
Amado Nervo; translated by Christian Ward



2009:06/07

dirt soldiers
poetry
Meredith Blankinship

An Act of Severance: Or, How Unsaid Magazine Became What It Is
Michael Kimball Interviews David McLendon

The Architecture of Carousels
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

One
fiction
Tracey Rose

[Jimmy, in his going]
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Thoughts on a Daffodil
poetry
Megan Moriarty

Above a Throat
fiction
Brian Allen Carr

December 1980
poetry
Nicelle Davis

My Daughter and I
Q&A
Sometimes I Feel Too Much

fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

On the Deck
poetry
Harold Bowes

Accretion
poetry
John Myers

Watching Superman
poetry
Bianca Stone

Posted With Glue, Then Removed Overnight
fiction
Ivan Faute

Estate
fiction
Ali Berman

A Different Kind of Order (The Thelonious Monk Story)
fiction
Mike Topp

21st Century
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

Weird Placement Tests
poetry
Drew Kalbach

st barnabas
st harvey

poetry
Mark DeCarteret

Eviction Notice
I once watched a fish drown (and it was my fault)

poetry
Kimberly Ruth

Night Nurse
fiction
Eliza Walton

Halfingers
fiction
Ben Segal

Harvest
fiction
Marcus Whale

Sunday morning
poetry
Rufo Quintavalle

Bird Seed -- Trafalgar Square
poetry
Chris Major

Casting Call
poetry
Cathy Linh Che

Lover
Stalker

fiction
Eric Beeny

Duality
fiction
Michelle Reale

Another Fig Leaf
fiction
Stacy Muszynski

The Merging of Continents
Match-Made

poetry
Dariel Suarez

Kitchen Musings
poetry
Tammy Ho Lai-ming

Peanuts
Samuel

poetry
Darby Larson

Replacement
fiction
Mel Bosworth

Waiting to Fall
fiction
Ajay Vishwanathan

so long
poetry
Sasha Fletcher



2009:08

Romanov
poetry
Forrest Roth

Certain Meats
fiction
Ann DeWitt

Kamby Bolongo Mean River (excerpt)
fiction
Robert Lopez

An Interview with Andy Devine
Josh Maday

Not That Far
poetry
Evelyn Hampton

Missing Chance
fiction
Len Kuntz

Naked Joy
poetry
Marguerite W. Sullivan

Storytellers
poetry
Eliza Victoria

Expletive It and Existential There
fiction
Rhoads Stevens

California
poetry
Meg Pokrass

House of Hands
poetry
Jared Walls

As I Put the Mug Down
poetry
Taryn Andrews

A Guest
poetry
Christopher York

The Five
fiction
xTx

No Smoke, No Mirrors
poetry
Rob MacDonald

Algorithm
poetry
R.L. Swihart

The New Moon Day
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

Reflections on the Impossibility of Rowboating
fiction
Tim Jones-Yelvington

Killing Coyote
poetry
Howie Good

I found my home, thank you.
poetry
Kimberly Ruth

No Picnic
fiction
Bruce Harris

Armistice
fiction
Andrea Kneeland



2009:09

The Pencil Story
fiction
Mike Topp

The Train Was a Distant Memory
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Church Pants
Ohio
Feeling Intimacy

poetry
Douglas Piccinnini

Bookstore, St. Mark's
A priori
[Untitled]

poetry
mary-catherine jones

A Monkey Accident
poetry
Lisa J. Cihlar

From the Diary of:
poetry
amber nelson

Hex
Ceremony

poetry
Elizabeth H. Barbato

What It's Been
Relatives

fiction
Meg Pokrass

A Sinking
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Earth
poetry
Alina Gregorian

A Riddle
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

How to Say It
fiction
Lydia Copeland

Polemic
poetry
Joanna Penn Cooper

Underneath the Lamplight
Wet Market

non-fiction
Robert Dollesin

The End of Summer
poetry
Howie Good

August
poetry
Mollye Miller

Ahalya
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

they say she just blew clear off
poetry
Gregory Sherl

Sinclair Lewis
fiction
Fortunato Salazar

Zeno's Paradox
poetry
Eric Burke

When the Cats Razzed the Chickens
prose poetry
Mel Bosworth

Engrossed -- Circa 1979
poetry
Chris Major



2009:10

Ornithology
Expedition

fiction
Philip Brooks

I Have to Cut Myself in Half
poetry
Brian Beatty

Meteors
poetry
J Michael Wahlgren

Dollar Bills Burning
Levar Burton Was Not A Babe On Star Trek To Me Because He Was A Trusted Individual I Watched For Information On Reading Rainbow As A Child
I Went To The Cliff, I Blew The Ram's Horn, Below Nobody Gathered

fiction
Nicole Elizabeth

We Say Nothing About Love
fiction
xtx

In the American Grain
Williams Carlos Williams
(review)

Swans
poetry
Kyle Holter

Graals
poetry
R L Swihart

Autumn Breeze
poetry
Howie Good

Emerald
fiction
Meg Pokrass

from Reach/Recover
poetry
Tyler Flynn Dorholt

Easier
fiction
Louise Krug

Advice for Locating the Whirl
fiction
Tim Jones-Yelvington

Fire League
poetry
Ranjani Murali

Anywhere
fiction
Jesse Tangen-Mills

Exit
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

redolent homosexuality
poetry
vi khi nao

Savior
fiction
Bill Cook

The Tongue
poetry
Keith Nathan Brown

Process and Procedure
fiction
Trent England

the monkey on your back
poetry
Kristin Kimble

Garage Sale
fiction
Kimberly Ruth

WWII Stories
fiction
Jimmy Chen

california
poetry
Kelly Schirmann



2009:11

Into the Destructive Element
Quartet for the End of Time

poetry
Howie Good

(SAINTS + Saints)
fiction
Jaclyn Dwyer

An Interview with Laird Hunt
M.T. Fallon

John Tyndall Experiments with Infusions of Fowl and Kidney
poetry
Alexis Vergalla

America
fiction
Michael Bible

Black Machine 2
fiction
Mark Petterson

Ode
poetry
Kyle Booten

after rain on my cartography,
poetry
Kat Dixon

Suicide
Skin Is

poetry
Kerry Cullen

10 of Clubs
fiction
Sean Lovelace

Sleeve
poetry
Harold Bowes

Barcelona
fiction
Annie Clarkson

How to Hum in Public Politely
fiction
Chelsea Hogue

Epiphany
fiction
Andrew Bowen

Remains
fiction
Andrew Borgstrom

A New Edict of Nantes
poetry
Jon Cone

Rods and Cones
poetry
Darren Angle

An Apology
poetry
Elizabeth Bastos

The Noon Sun
fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

So
poetry
Adam Fitzgerald

of brevity
fiction
J.A. Tyler

excerpt
poetry
Robyn Day

You warn about boundaries.
poetry
Chris Taylor

Public Airing
poetry
Lijia Xie

The Sadness of the Bus Driver
poetry
Philip Brooks

Foldboat
poetry
Emily Maloney

Iranian Food
fiction
Ben White

Scarlet Aspiration (A Ventilative Curse)
poetry
Kathryn Spencer

Remember the more important thing[. . .]
poetry
Bo McGuire

Motor
poetry
Zach Wentz

All Aboard
fiction
Bruce Harris

Attendance
fiction
Eric Beeny

Four Micro-Essays
Mike Topp

Cosmetic Surgery
fiction
Alexandra Isacson



2009:12

Eternal Recurrence
Emanation

poetry
Eric Burke

At Home on the Riverbed, a Stream of Silt
fiction
David Peak

Excerpt from "Pavement"
poetry
Nathan Moore and Dana Guthrie Martin

Gardening
fiction
Nora Nadjarian

full synthetic
poetry
Adam Moorad

Factory New Coccyx
poetry
Perry Orbsim

Thesis
Re-acquaintance-ship
We might imagine terribly

poetry
Leora Silverman Fridman

I Would Kiss Him Back All Over Too
fiction
Ben Segal

It All Smelled Like Betrieb
poetry
Adam Siegel

There Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of. . .
Some Day I Hope There Is a Song. . .

poetry
Kendra Malone

Crossing
fiction
Kevin O'Cuinn

People Nowadays
fiction
Michelle Reale

Three Kinetic Energies From A Writer To Forty Thousand Kinetic Energies From A Painter Makes Forty-Thousand and Six Kinetic Energies From Two Women
fiction
Nicolle Elizabeth

Men, Women and Chainsaws
poetry
Joy Wood

The Maid
Solar Eclipse

fiction
Tirumal Mundargi

Watching Our Reflections on TV While We Wait
fiction
Meakin Armstrong

mentiras
poetry
Zakeeyah Khan

11 Cut-Up Poems
poetry
Tagert Ellis

Pan Tostado
fiction
Philip Brooks

Opening Night
poetry
Lindsay Marianna Walker

Lost Glasses
poetry
Howie Good

In Theory
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

Peace
fiction
Adam Marston

Rape and Descartes
fiction
Dave Erlewine

Dare
fiction
Kimberly Ruth

Invasion
fiction
Jesse Tangen-Mills

It Is Incredible
fiction
Edmund Sandoval

Le Chiffonier
poetry
Jal Nicholl

Fast Food
fiction
Mel Bosworth

Breath
poetry
Kristian Radford

Medicine Bag
poetry
Sean Patrick Hill