Contents

FICTION

Thomas Cooper Bloody Mary
Julia Elliot Shooting the Horses
(winner of the 2010 Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers)
Paul Ruffin The Ballad of Squrl Reddd...
Anis Shivani from Karachi Raj
Venessa Strachan The Beautiful Ones
Theodore Wheeler On a Train from the Place Called Valentine
George Williams Wabash

NON-FICTION


John Barth It Can Be Arranged...
Albert Goldbarth The Hamza
Josip Novakovich Balkan Express
Anis Shivani What is World Literature
SYMPOSIUM Flaws in the "Canon"

POETRY


Gilliam Cummings Dormant
Alice Friman Round and Around
Albert Goldbarth The Words I Made in My Head
Street Signs
Song
David Guterson Barthes and Barth
Andrew Hudgins Johny
John Kinsella The Ghost Train
William Logan Fall in the Sketchpad
Venice in Rough Light
Jane Miller Thunderbird
Richard Newman Digging Up the Elephant Ears
Stopping for Lunch Near Goshen, Indiana
Ode to Big Muddy Asian Carp
Hallie Rundle Leter to Demeter, Unsent
(winner of the 2011 Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets) Leter to Hades
Isle of the Blessed
Brian Simoneau At A Horseshoe Bend in the Rogue
Untitled
Floyd Skloot Late May in Zuheros, Andalucia
Invasive Species
Jane O. Wayne The Empty Flask
On a Crowded Bus
Helen Wickes Electrical Tidings