Issue 9 Table of Contents
FICTION
Eric Boyd — Anything for Johnny
Abby Geni — Fire Blight
Rachel Mangini — My Sister, the Tiger
Jane McCafferty — The Sisters of Redemption
Meghan Perry — Another Ocean
NONFICTION
Faith Adiele — The Way Back
Jane Fishman — Moving On
Barbara Hurd — In the Garden Once Again with Adam
Robert Isenberg — The Hills of Paradise
Lori Jakiela — Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
Phillip Lopate — The Future of the Essay
Dinty W. Moore — Tooth and Claw
Michele Morano — On Going and Being and Writing Like a Woman
Nicol Stavlas — Mountain Ranges
Mary Swander — The Role of the Writer in a World of Peak Everything
Kim Todd — The Rodent Diva
Kate Ver Ploeg — Where the Levee Ends
Margaret Whitford — What Remains
Lorena Williams — su•per•son•ic
POETRY
Kara Arguello — Homage to Gwyneth Paltrow
Jan Beatty — We Cover Our Heads Like Deer; White Girl in a Record Store
Joan Colby — Paying Attention
Brandon Courtney — Obsidian
Frank X. Gaspar — I Would Be True in My Own Body; Black Notebook, Day Six, Canadian Rockies
Robert Gibb — Herbal
Sierra Golden — Hatchery; Roses
Terry Hermsen — Envoi for Nathaniel
Ivan Hobson — Cutting His Teeth
William Jolliff — The Way Things Work Out
Randall Mann — Fling
Laura Jane Martin — Our House; Surveyor
Stephen Massimilla — Gloss
Travis Mossotti — The Logger
Lisa Mullenneaux — August
Nguyen Phan Que Mai — Stars in the Shape of Carrying Poles; Two Truths; The Gardener in the Royal Citadel; Journey of the Human Train
Dawn Potter — Incident at Jacobs Creek, 1755; The Old General's Equipage Trunk, 1784; An Elephant in Greensburg, 1808; Incident at Jacobs Creek, 1976
Donna Pucciani — On a Lover's Deafness
Jill Reid — Unrooted
David Salner — The Road to Philippi, WV; Paper-Mill Town; Tejas: First Spring
Ronald F. Smits — Inkberry
Richard St. John — Pluto 1; Pluto 2; Pluto 3
Mitchell Untch — Saving Anne Sexton for Paris; Floribunda
INTERVIEW
With John Balaban
With Phillip Lopate
With Stewart O'Nan