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Contents: Issue 4: Fall 2011


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Essays and CNF

Jennifer Arin ¡Ole, the Rhythms of Sevilla!
T. Nicole Cirone On Sleeping in Another Woman’s Bed
DeWitt Henry Sweet Dreams: A Family History
[Excerpt from memoir]
Thomas E. Kennedy You Don’t Remember Me, But I Remember You:
For Janet McDonald (1954-2007)
Steve Kowit The 97,000-Mile-a-Minute Poetry Machine
[Chapter from Light Years: an Anthology on Sociocultural Happenings (Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966), edited by Carol Bergé]
Chauncey Mabe The Death of the Book Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Clare MacQueen The Fragrance of Levity
[In memory of Kelley Marie Smith, 1980-2011]
Richard Reiss Desperate Love: A Father’s Memoir
[Excerpt]

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Featured Author

Lauren B. Davis Our Daily Bread
[Excerpt from novel]

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Flash Fiction

Okla Elliott Lonely Tylenol
Leslie What Old Baby

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Interviews

Sara Byrd An Interview With Thomas E. Kennedy

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Poetry: American Sentences

Jan Clausen

Colleen Dawson

J.C. Elkin

Ori Fienberg

Amanda Fuller

Terry Hertzler

Danielle Hunt

Jen Lagedrost

Jake Oliver

Laura Praytor

Sean T. Randolph

Scott Stewart

In our Spring 2011 issue, we put out the word that we were looking for “American Sentences,” 17-syllable sentences with the cleverness, poignancy, epiphanic delightfulness, or acute perception one finds in epigrammatic poetry. Perhaps this form (invented by Allen Ginsberg) is the real American Haiku. Or maybe these are just Lowkus or blinks or…


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Poetry: Other Forms

Gary Fincke The Flurry
Gary Fincke The Odds
Clyde Fixmer The God of Dogs
Terry Hertzler How Fierce the Sun Was
Terry Hertzler Michael (plus Commentary)
Terry Hertzler No-Name Poem
Terry Hertzler The Value of Leisure
Terry Hertzler Tiny Silver Threads
Terry Hertzler Walking Pneumonia
Jackleen Holton Downpour
Jackleen Holton Santa Monica
Jackleen Holton The Keeper
Perie Longo Ms. R’s Introduction of Visitor to Her Second Grade Class
Perie Longo The End
Jack Marshall Now Past the Age of Active Ambition
Tiffany Brooke Martin Pear-Ripe Memories
Tiffany Brooke Martin St. Stephen’s Green Images
Kathleen McGookey Paid
Ali Murphy Dig In
Ali Murphy Garage Sale
Ron Salisbury A Walk With Chet
Ron Salisbury Chasing
Shelley Savren Losing You to AIDS
Shelley Savren Purple Irises
Shelley Savren The Court School
Terence Winch Dirt City
Terence Winch Parade Theory
Terence Winch Session

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Poets Talk

Terry Hertzler On “Michael”

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Reviews

Duff Brenna Brooklyn NY: A Grim Retrospective
[Review of memoir by Jerry Castaldo (Pink Cloud Publishing, 2011)]
Duff Brenna Streethearts Street Smarts
[Review of novel by Greg Herriges (Kindle edition, 2011)]
Duff Brenna The Tiger’s Eye: New and Selected Stories
[Review of collection by Gladys Swan (Serving House Books, 2011)]
Chauncy Mabe The Amazing Superiority of Literary Science Fiction
[Review of The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009)]
Carol Smallwood and then there were three…
[Review of memoir by Supriya Bhatnagar (Serving House Books, 2010)]

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Short Stories

Walter Cummins Oubliette
Kimbra Cutlip Cavallo
[Featuring paintings by Carole Bolsey]
Nels Hanson The Day the Sleeping Child Woke
Steve Heller Good Advice
Deborah Nedelman The Balance
Jennifer Nissley The Encounter
Tom Sheehan The Old Man in the Garden of Long Shadows
Greg W. Taylor Wolf
Tony Van Witsen The Moment Before the Downbeat

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Translations

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson The Month For Me Is April
[Translated by Thomas E. Kennedy]

“...we have been born here to witness and celebrate. We wonder at our purpose for living. Our purpose
is to perceive the fantastic. Why have a universe if there is no audience?” — Ray Bradbury