Contents

FICTION

Colin Fleming Dunes Under Sand
Bayard Godsave Roughneck Confesses
Meron Hadero Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin' Newton
Alice Hoffman Learning to Lie
Joyce Carol Oates The Nice Girl
Courtney Sender The Disappearance of J. Frank Donaldson

NON-FICTION


Geoffrey Bent John Singer Sargent: The Great Good Painter
Christopher Citro An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds
Kevin Stein The Poetry of Journey: Travel, Travail, and Transport
SYMPOSIUM How would you describe your religious or spiritual beliefs, if any, and how, if at all, do they influence your writing?
Marc Watkins Silence in the Show Me State

POETRY


Jari Chevalier The Tick and the Unified Field
Gregory Djanikian Harbingers
Albert Goldbarth The White Planet
Flowers
The Little Death
Long Davisian
Connecting
Miriam Kotzin Creep
Aviary
James Lineberger Hadjis