Journal – No. 17
Spring/Summer 2012 – Vol. 9, No. 1
Sample Spreads
Contributors
Fiction
Amy Sayre-Roberts “Whatsoever”
Brian Beglin “Little Trenches”
Ling Ma “The Scientist”
William Kelley Woolfitt “Sons with Apples in Their Hands”
Ramon Isao “Tumblarosa”
Nonfiction
Brenda Miller “Dark Angel”
Anna Vodicka “As Seen on TV!”
Joseph Gross “Picnic Geese”
Timothy L. Marsh “Something Californian”
Poetry
Paisley Rekdal seven poems from Go West
Brendan Todt “At the Particle Accelerator at Krasnoyarsk”
Anna Lowe Weber “Pre-natal Musings”
Rupprecht Mayer “Heirs”, “An open relationship”
John A. Nieves “Hasp”
Cindy Beebe “Burkha”
Oliver Bendorf “I Promised Her My Hands Wouldn’t Get Any Larger”
M. A. Vizsolyi “Temptation”
Brynn Saito “Match”
Gerard Beirne “”Meditation #35 Working the Height”, “Meditation #39The Ambiguous Endings”
Josh Kalscheur “How Will You Believe What I Say?”
Devon Branca “Tape of ‘Robert Vu Makes the Weight for the Winds'”
Annie Liontas “Selling Knives to the Arab Revolution”
Marcus Wicker “Call”
Gary Dop “Bill Bitner Daydreams”
Art Feature
Laurie Hogin “Articulated in a Quadrangle”
Where We’re @
Laura Adamczyk, “Of Fossils (Softball) and Catfish”
Angela Hine, “Out There”
Editorial Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Philip Graham
Poetry Editor: Michael Madonick
Assistant Editors: Michael Don, Eduardo Gabrieloff, Max Somers
Editorial Assistants: Laura Adamczyk, Kendra Chapman, Sara Gelson, Khaleel Gheba, Angela Hine, Roya Khatiblou, Sean MacIntyre, Natalie Mesnard, Jessica Thom, Lucilena Williams
Design Staff
Art Director: Matthew Peterson
Designers: Lucas Albrecht, Hannah Burtness, Garrett Campagna, Maggie Day, Katy Dondzila, Alex Dye, Brent Hofacker, Olivia La Faire, Taekyeom Lee, Tanner Mei, Marco Novielli, Annaka Olsen, Diane Park, Will Ryan, Cassie Tu, Jacie Wandell
Photographers: Maggie Day, Brent Hofacker, Marco Novielli, Jaci Wandell
Production Assistant: Garrett Campagna
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Individual Sponsors
Publisher
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Patron
Melvin A. Skvarla
Friend
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