Spring 2012
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Stanley Plumly, “My Keats,” 5
Susanne Antonetta, “The Problem of Light,” 38
Ruth W. Crocker, “Sam’s Way,” 58
Lhea J. Love, “Am I a Christian?,” 78
J. David Stevens, “For Janet, at Forty,” 125
Elizabeth Stone, “Husband Emeritus,” 138
FICTION
Daniel A. Hoyt, “The Wedding Party,” 21
Mike Antosia, “The Goat,” 43
Jay Irwin, “The Muskeg,” 89
Laura Schadler, “The Living Things around Her,” 104
Laina Mullin Pruett, “The Last Con,” 147
POETRY
Richard Frost, “Muse” and “The Plight of the Cat,” 18
Jill Osier, “Mars” and “spring has such tiny wrists ,” 36
Roger Williams, “Another Flood in Mingo County” and “The Theory of Relativity,” 41
Susan Okie, “The New Widow,” 57
Pamela Murray Winters, “The Limits of Culture,” 77
Lynn Domina, “Linguistics,” 100
Jennifer Barber, “Achill Island Fears,” 122
Kevin Prufer, “Show Us” and “Poetry,” 135
John Hazard, “Greening,” 143
Cody Todd, “Elegy” and “In Broomfield,” 144
Jennifer Boyden, “The Declarable Future,” 146
Hailey Leithauser, “I Love Me, Vol. I,” “I Recant, Vol. II,” and “Loneliness,” 158
GRAPHICS
David Graeme Baker, Paintings, 81
