Table of Contents

Features

Readers at Mason

• Harriet Zinnes
• David McAleavey

Fiction

• Edgar H. de Lesseps, “A Perfect Story”
• Philip Hughes, “Raw Meat”
• Harriet Zinnes, “Black Snake”
• Robert H. O’Connor, “Semendra”
• Patty Summers, Jonathan’s Lament (excerpt)
• Johnathan Lowe, “Work Detail”
• Robert Flanagan, “Mayday”

Poetry

• Roger Finch, “French Naive Art (ca. 1820): The Fall Into the Cellar,” “Heliopsis,” “The Sun Hangs Like Royalty in the Apsis of the Earth”
• Constance Clark, “Vandalism”
• Lyn Lifshin, “Madonna Poems,” “Lightning Bugs, Branches,” “The Reading“
• Emilie Glen, “From Barcelona”
• Carolyn Kreiter-Kurylo, “Contrary Visions in the Gallery, White on White“
• Fritz Hamilton, “A Father Glad She’s Back,””A Father’s Request,” “A Father’s Concern,” “A Father Writes His Son,” “A Father Talks to His Son at Pontiac,” “A Father Asks a Question,” “A Father Opens Up to His Daughter,” “A Father Not Mad”
• Steven C. Levi, “The Last Raven,” “Inlet Villanelle”
• Pat Myren, “By Any Other Name”
• Mark Anderson, “Angel or Photograph”
• Greg Triplett, “For My Mother and Father,” “Leaving,” “This Calm,” “For Ann”
• Jack Barrack, “Vacation’s End,” “Lab Mice Going North,” “Stitches,” “Lazarus Lived Here”
• Ivan Arguelles, “Chimera,” “Medea,” “Cold Silver,” “BEATRICE visits dante”
• Sheila Barrows, “Dinner at the Ritz”
• W.E. Gorrilles, “Little Death”
• Harriet Zinnes, “The Poem,” “Guadalajara,” “Snow Snow Snow”
• Pun Que, “1 the sun & 2 the moon,” “The second step is the voyage,” “10 Step Magic Trick,” “Esoterica on Beauty and the Beast,” “A final nightmusic”
• Marty Walsh, “They Jumped in Like Live Bait,” “The Living Room,” “I Used to Deny Death and Age,” “Shadows Lay Dark Flowers”
• Cis Porter, “Charley”
• M.L. Hester, “The Farmer’s Daughter,” “Poem to Bear,” “Poem to Seal,” “a man sat”
• Robert F. Whisler, “tigers and wolves”
• Serge Lecomte, “The Six O’Clock News,” “See the World,” “Free,” “Letter to Mom,” “Following,” “Foolishness”
• David McAleavey, “Psyche Goes West,” “Sea Grass and Breezes”
• Mark Madigan, “Letter to a Deaf Mute”
• Kathryn Larson, “Blue Shadows”
• Florence Barbera, “High to Low”
• Michael P. McDermott, “The Bass Player,” “Drinkin’ Vultures”

Art

• RuthAnn Barr
• Art Cole
• Jane Dix
• Jessie Gardner
• Jane Anne Gideon
• J.F. Hannon IV
• Pat Hutchens
• Joan Keightley
• Diana Lynch
• Barbara O’Brien
• Donald Phillips
• Susan Pomponio
• Rob Sacilotto
• Diane Sifford
• Cathy Smith

Photography

• William Buser
• J.W. Harchick