Archive

Inside Jokes, Explained

Jerry
Scott Garson

Paisley
Molly Gaudry

Dating for Dinner
Lauren Becker

TMU
Anderson Nichols

Honey Brown
Arrie Brown

Get Some Strange
Marcelle Heath

It’s Not Russia, It’s Us
Danny Collier

Dennis Washington and Johnny Deep Yeah!
Kim Douglas

January 2009

Grand Opening
Kenneth Pobo

John Lennon
Kyle Hemmings

The Checkout
M. J. Iuppa

Billy, Elvis and Jesus
Christopher Woods

Brain on His Friendship with Pinky
Alan King

February 2009

A Theory of Lightning and Green
Melissa Moorer

Drawn to Heroes
Jessie Carty

Girls
Lauren Becker

The Information Delivery System
Corey Mesler

Flames
Dan Moreau

Saturday
Christian Ward

The Ice of Old Lily Pond
Tom Sheehan

Blowing for Dough
Tommy Ellis

March 2009

Mullins
Timothy Braun

Winging the Watersheds
L. Ward Abel

& (sixty-one)
J. A. Tyler

At Your Service
Penni Jones

Crime Scene Cleaners
Laura LeHew

The Death of the Book
Howie Good

A Thin Film
Steve Himmer

The Day I Nuked the Romans
Catherine McGuire

KILL! SUDOKU!!
Jeanne Sirotkin

April 2009

technicolor
Jason Jones

The Last Laugh
Ricky Garni

Goofy’s Wonderful World of Disney
Roland Goity

Peep
Robert Swartwood

Travels from My Laundry Room
Nina Romano

Spin Cycle
Alan King

May 2009

Fathers and Daughters
Joseph Lombo

Therapy at Home
David Erlewine

Vasectomy
Leah Browning

Prick
Ravi Mangla

Scouting Report
Paul Handley

Psychic Algebra
Lucy Vader

Travel Game
Meg Pokrass

Hoodie’s Cap
Paul Silverman

June 2009

The Object Center
Adam Moorad

A Monastic Life
Swan Morrison

Identity
Rob Omura

This American Death
Laura Ellen Scott

Queries Involving Tyler Perry, Difficult Decisions and Two Skanks
Roxane Gay

When cigarettes were under five dollars
Jared Ward

From Gdansk, yours
Martin Reed

Secrets
Robert Aquino Dollesin

July 2009

Rolling
John Findura

No Such Luck
MJ Iuppa

Seduction of the Innocent
Gale Acuff

An Open Letter
Ethel Rohan

Forecast: Chapter 2
Shya Scanlon

August 2009

Fireflies
Wendy Clery

Tuesday at the Civic Pool
Scott Owens

The Ghost of Frederic Oppenheim
Brian Baer

Then God Showed Up
Charles Lennox

Missive
Donora Hillard

the electronic match, made and lit
David LaBounty

The Persimmon Tree
Phoebe Wilcox

Song #4
Howie Good

Courting in the Music Store
John Grey

September 2009

Rotations
Andrew Borgstrom

BFFs
Dave Housley

16 Haiku about Las Vegas
Scott Cunningham

Grandpa Dick
B. J. Hollars

A Face to Hide His Mask Behind
Eric Beeny

October 2009

You Don’t Take a Stroller over the Ha’Penny Bridge
Gillian Grimm

Jumbled notes
Bryan Murray

Dendrochronology
Tara Laskowski

Confession
Gary Moshimer

Pact
Lydia Copeland

Family Ties
Michelle Reale

Poetry for Poetry Haters Issue

‘Tis the Season
Daniel Romo

Breakdown in the Fast Lane
Howie Good

Presidential Flash Cards
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

The Family Dog
Ryan W. Bradley

Guest Editor Interview

Amnesty Day poems

November 2009

Letter to Mom on Her 82nd Birthday
Fredrick Zydek

High School Party
Elizabeth F. A. Meaney

Sale Rack: The Cost of Blooming Late
Kristen Elde

Incorrect Assumptions are Made during Smear the Queer at St. Oliver’s Catholic Grade School
Brendan O’Brien

Letters from Camp
Peter Rawlings

Ready, Set.
Valerie O’Riordan

December 2009

Valley Girl
Acid Drops Sun’s Knives
Lucy Vader

House of Boxes
Timothy Raymond

Where Oh Where
Eric V. Neagu

Send, Sent
Jimmy Chen

The Garden
C. L. Bledsoe

Bear Hill Deli
William Doreski

January 2010

There Are Those That Live in Utopian Kingdoms, and Then There Are The Rest Of Us
Ethel Rohan

She Told Me I Needed to Circulate
D.J. Morris

Covering Rest
Katarina Boudreaux

Heroin and Willie Lee by Way of DePalma
Greg Gerke

This is Where You Are at Home
Jensen Beach

Breathe
Chris Castle

Shallow Grave
Julie Innis

Serve and Volley
Thomas Mundt

February 2010

The Kama Sutra of Mickey Mouse
J. Bradley

Girl with Tangled Hair
Nate East

Dear Sir or Madame
Joseph Goosey

Drowned in Light
Ben Spivey

Sweet and Sour
Doug Bond

The Resistance
Joseph Murphy

Tempus Fugit
Kenneth Radu

March 2010
Guest Editor: Lauren Becker

The Mountains of Instead
Edward Mullany

An Unaired Minute of an Episode of Reality Television
Edward Mullany

Annotation of “Who Killed Lord Darnley?”
Laura Ellen Scott

Try
Kenneth Pobo

Emulsion
Calvin Mills

Girls at the Bar
Roxane Gay

The New Boyfriend
AD Jameson

Mystery Dads
Andrew Roe

April 2010

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Jason Jordan

The Direction of Chaos
Phoebe Wilcox

Fever Dream
Gregory Sherl

Potatoes
Joanne Polukoshko

You Have to Make a Choice
Adam Marston

Bananas
John Kuligowski

Cliché
Ted Chiles

May 2010

For Love or Memorex?
Katie Vermilyea

Walking the Line
Jeanne Holtzman

Lost Girl
Neila Mezynski

The Second Rule of Yoga
Laura Walter

Listening to Death Metal at Target
Melanie Browne

Wendy in Rehab
Kathryn Kulpa

What I Wish I Hadn’t Done
Kristen Elde

Egg: A Memoir
Kimberly Lawrence Kol

June 2010

Remote
Ajay Vishwanathan

Rose Gold
Gary Moshimer

Plug In
Chris Tarry

Need for Nothing
Mel Bosworth

Guns and Poodles
Keith Meatto

Black Diamonds
Len Kuntz

Whirr
Ray Shea