Poetry

"Sylvia Pounding Poems" by
   Ward Kelley
"23 Johnson Avenue, 1985" by
   Diann Blakely
"Circe" by Michael Williams
"Jewelry Box" by H. Janzen
"The Gardener's Shears" by
   Viesta Barker
"In the Street My Man Turns" by
   Peter Stuhlmann
"Paul Celan" by Maggie Jaffe

Macro-Fiction

"Swimming Empty" by Gabrielle Bomgren
"The Inquisistion" by Paul A. Toth

Micro-Fiction

"Rucky Man" by John A. Broussard
"Kibble" by Ben Reames
"Fog" by Alice Whittenburg
"A Matter of Belief" by Kathy L. Harris

One on One - Author Interviews

Ryan Boudinot interviews Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, in an attempt to find out just what makes this author ... stink?

Lorri Holt talks with Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood, and comes to understand how even quality writing can be workshopped to death.

Stranger Than Fiction

This Segment Brought to you by the Letter "G" - Stefene Russell explores the ABC's of creating your own alphabet soup, Mormon-style!

Book Lovers

Candace B. Moonshower reviews Snake's Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War, Gail Hosking Gilberg's poignant tale of her fallen father and what the tale of Vietnam should mean to America, while Rachel Barenblat finds herself enraptured with John Montague's About Love, a collection of Irish 'love' poems.

What To Read
We know it's difficult for readers to know exactly what to expect at bookstores, new or used, much less what's any good. Here's the latest installment of what our reviewers have been reading lately.

Sound Bites

Music Reviews by Jill Hill & Carey Potash  with
A Very Special Christmas 3,
Lyle Lovett's Step Inside This House,
Chet Baker's Let's Get Lost - The Best of Chet Baker Sings, and
Duncan Sheik's Humming

Remote Control

Nick Burton hunts down a few specimens of that rare Hollywood film that actually tackles the lives of writers and the process of writing. He explores the hallucinogenic realm of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, the Coen brothers' blackly satiric Barton Fink, Kaufman's erotically charged Henry & June, and Rudolph's richly depicted biopic,
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.

Zine Reviews

Kimberly Villalba Wright sinks her teeth into Octavo, snickers along with
Frumious Bandersnatch, and goes underground with Mondo Bizarro.

Last Word

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