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Winter 2007
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Robert Paul Blumenstein Kathy Fowler |
Turkey Shoot Chalklines on the Field |
Verse |
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Doug Draime Matt Zambito J. Matthew Boyleston S.P. Flannery Patrick Hicks Stephen Sossaman Michael Daley Sarn Magavern Brokie Lamb Sarah Sarai J. Wesley Clark Charlie Clark |
God Opens a Swiss Bank Account Tonight, I'm Going to Sleep Like A Baby In The Bell Yard Derry The Knowledge From The Woodcutter's Songs To Be Life With Atropos, the Inexorable Chesapeake Bay Deadrise The Pause For Charlie Cutting Meat |
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Sidney Martin John A. Thompson, Sr. Mark Edward Atkinson |
Untitled Rusted Car Cover art and Afghanistan |
Summer 2007
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Ron Savage D.E. Fredd Pierce Tyler |
Firefighting On The Mattaponi Roads Not Taken Little Fingers Holding String |
Verse |
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Jack Peachum David Parker Jason Tandon Michael Duncan Marc Harshman Michael Internicola Clay Vaughan Amy Nawrocki Justin Dodd J. Wesley Clark Ann McGovern Patrick Carrington Richard Allen Taylor John Lawson |
Leora Crocker Welcome, Once Again, Awake, Home Work Untitled The Flag Emmy Minnesota Channeling Olson The Wedding Dress Proof Fare Thee Well Hyperthyroidism Leaving The Lowlands The Preacher Says Metonymy Of The Heir To The Universe |
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Scott Williams Kaitlin Vaughan Chris Teaters Mark Atkinson |
Photographs Photograph Photographs Cover and Photographs |
Winter 2006
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Aaron Hellem Jean Hendrickson J.D. Chapman Loretta Giacoletto |
Anecdote Of Two Men and a Jar Man Of The Moment Little Miss Effinger My Ave Museo |
Verse |
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Matt Zambito Paul Benton Charles Rammelkamp Celia Lisset Alvarez Brent Fisk Brent Fisk C.S. Fuqua Will Nixon Will Nixon Kristin Berkey-Abbot Kristin Berkey-Abbot Joseph Hunt James Gage R. Yurman Richard Fein J. Wesley Clark Ann McGovern Luis Richter |
The Drummer Goes Deaf Bigfoot, My Love The Kind Of Face You Can Trust Mechanical Aptitude Swimming Behind the letters of signs Buzzard A Natural History Of Cigarette Butts What Kind Of Mind Invented The Golf Ball Land of Heavy Metals Eschatology Modulation Parchment Yellowjackets have invaded the dining room Fugue Of The Nighttime Woods Â…perpetual poem Forgive Me Daddy I Have Done Everything |
Original Art |
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| Richard Fein Mark Atkinson |
Photograph Photographs |
Summer 2006
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John Flynn Justin Crouse Joe Frank Buckner |
Man With His Wife Painted On His Chest Stick Figures Mysterious Blue |
Verse |
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| Mark Farrell Paul Brucker Andrew Merton Richard Allen Taylor Clay Vaughan Madison Adams Melanie Faith C.C. Russell Ben Berman Mark Odland Paul Benton Greg Moglia Charles Rammelkamp Rebecca Cook Rebecca Cook |
Tattoos Keen Fitful Gusts Degrees Of Nudity Ode To A Tangerine On A Napkin JB (1904-1961) All Told Pick-up in The Produce Aisle Constants/Constancy 8/24 Only Ink From The Dead End Tavern The Old Lady At The First Floor Noir House Sale This House The New Pill |
Original Art |
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| Jason Hanasik Mark Atkinson |
Photographs Photographs |
Winter 2005
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| Strohn
Woodard Michael Leone T.R. Healy Kevin Wilson |
The Saturday Evening Post Telephone On The Cool Side Of The Street Lying To The President |
Verse |
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| Kurt Brown Tom Williams James Gage Robert Penick Rebecca Cook David Wright Melanie Faith Brian Brown Jay Paul Paul Brucker Barry Dunlap Greg Moglia Andrew Merton Richard Allen Taylor Stephen Fuller Jean Hendrickson |
Emergency Ex- Abundance How You Must Feel Walking You To Your Car Broken Machine| Children Build Snowmen The (Last) Resort Family History Parts, Partially Wrapped All Tomatoes Christmas Eve Advice To A Weary Traveler I Shouldn't Be Surprised beLonging Solace Contrast |
Original Art |
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| David Chorlton Mark Atkinson |
Artwork Cover Photograph |
Summer 2005
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| Nathan Leslie Shellie Zacharia Jennifer Dziura Orman Day |
Burlap Next Stop Flawless Going Limp |
Verse |
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| Jonathan Rice Tom Williams Pricilla Atkins Will Nixon John Lawson Rae Spencer Maureen Ryan Griffin Michael R. Wolfram Grace Tazewell Richard Allen Taylor Janet Dollacker Sarah Riner Payne Mary Bartlett Caskey Janean Williams |
Stranded Arpeggio Outside Your Door Prayer For A Country Driver The Granite Comedian Before I Knew Dust Rust Rasp Crack Shadowland Before The Wife And Kids Moving The Dreams Flue Hurricane Watch Musings Boys With Big Noses |
Original Art |
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| Terry Rentzepis Mark Atkinson |
Artwork Photographs |
Winter 2004
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| Jeffrey Rubin Beth Pardue Doug Pilley Erin Watkins |
House Ad You And Mr. Michaels Kiss Of Death My Dinner Guest |
Verse |
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| Richard Allen Taylor D.E. Steward Mj Trease Carolyn Kent Bailey Robert L. Penick James Gage Andrew Michael Roberts Lisa Beatman Will Nixon Ashok Niyogi Rae Spencer Elizabeth Levitski Janean Williams Kristin Berkley-Abbott |
White The Gila Critical Theory Some Days Better Men Have Died In Worse Rooms Stalker October's Fleeting Megalomania Bourbon Street Diva One Of The Lucky Ones Venus By The Cow Pasture Bedtime Substance Of Body The Dream Of The Monarch Talking About Chicken Legs October Songs |
Original Art |
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| David Verba |
Photographs |
Summer 2004
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| Lee
Minh Jason DeBoer Andrew Michael Roberts Dayne Sherman |
The Jesus Christ Smackdown Tiny Guillotines Albert In Line Spit |
Verse |
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| Bill
Ayres Rae Weaver KeithChow David Chorlton Ann Tynes Christopher Dungy K. Carlton Johnson Warren Meredith Harris Lisa Beatman Patrick Hicks Julie Lechevsky Richard Allen Taylor Kristin Berkley-Abbott James Gage Carolyn Kent Bailey |
I Was Told What I Felt And They Wondered Why He Stayed Realization for Natsuko Nostalgia Street Alzheimer's So Risky Joseph Alexandrovich Brodshy, Poet Poets Photograph of a River Baptism Source The God Of War Her Echoing Song Tuesday Last Neutrino Pledge Coming Of Age |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson Jason Hanasik |
Photograph Photographs |
Winter 2003
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| Rick
Kemp Pamela Lindsey Dreizen Kate Evans Hugh Sheehy |
God Of All Good Things Holes The Development Another Share Of Winter |
Verse |
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| Lynn Dean
Hunter Richard Allen Taylor Martin Kaszubowski Mark Budman Richard Arnold Bruce Lader Christine Swansberg Jean M. Hendrickson Mike Catalano Robert L. Penick Don Winter Peter Andrew Stinson Tom Williams Mary Bartlett Caskey |
Toast Return To Charleston A Brief Autobiography of Orange Pear-Shaped Time Stopping By Woods: The Horse's Reply Advice from a Bag Lady Winter Mood in Minor Key Ghosts Business Decisions Flight Song For Someone Going Away Like Fire in the Sky Before Things Get Rough When Poppies Open In The Snow |
Original Art |
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| Mark
Atkinson Timothy A. Mitchell Steven M. Hewitt |
Photographs Photograph Photograph |
Summer 2003
Stories |
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| Chris
Roberts Eugene M. McAvoy Jean M. Hendrickson |
When The Wolves Ran: A
Fable Bananas Adventure |
Verse |
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| Richard Allen Taylor Bill Ayres Carolyn Kent Bailey Richard Arnold Christine Swanberg Peter Andrew Stinson Don Winter Tom Williams K. Carlton Johnson Mary Bartlett Caskey E.S. de Forest Cesca Waterfield William Woolfit Michael Wolfram |
The Dark Forest Full, Half, Crescent A Wild Idea Like A Beaten Rug Whippoorwill As the priest was saying Mass Bones Lonely Love Letter To A Woman I Work With Beside The Bed Onion, Dear Beethoven's Dream Wonder The Long Spell Tragic Figure |
Original Art |
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| Steven M.
Hewitt Mark Atkinson Timothy A. Mitchell Alex Marshall |
Photograph Photographs Photograph Photograph |
Winter 2002
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| Greg
Avila David Chorlton John Fraim |
Mystery on the Wing One Of The Family The Paradox of American Symbols |
Verse |
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| Jean M.
Hendrickson Barbara Santucci John Sweet Carolyn Kent Bailey Seth Bedwell Virginia O'Keefe Mary Bartlett Caskey Steven M. Hewitt E.S. de Forest Christine Swanberg Greg Avila |
Second Love While Floating in the Bath Tub A Child Who Will Never Grow Up To Hate Butterfly Becomes a Bridge Daylight Saving Flapper in the Country I have a Private Lair Lewis Hine's Red-light District at Noon Loose at the Playground 0 Degrees of Separation Boomers |
Essay/Review |
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| Alex Marshall |
In Memory Of |
Original Art |
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| Mark
Atkinson Lee Walker Shepard Steven M. Hewitt |
Photographs Sculptures Photograph |
Summer 2002
Stories |
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| Dayne Allan
Sherman John Chattin |
Boys Outer Banks |
Verse |
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| Michael R. Wolfram Jerry Hagins Mary Bartlett Caskey Greg Avila David Chorlton Alan Catlin Jean M. Hendrickson Barbara Santucci Melissa Walker Christine Swanberg Lawrence Welsh Christine Swanberg |
In Light Of My Absence The String A Question of Shape Imbalance Rain Baudelaire in Chocolate A Day at the Beach We Didn't Question August evenings in Tennessee Winter's First Night Memo to Kell Freddy Fender Tonight Piano Lessons |
Essay/Review |
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| David
Chorlton Dayne Allan Sherman |
Marxist Flowers Slip Quietly into the Darkness |
Original Art |
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| Mark
Atkinson Timothy A. Mitchell Vasna Wilson |
Photographs Photographs Photograph |
Winter 2001
Stories |
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| Virgil Saurez Marlowe Moore Toby Tucker Hecht |
Blown The Winter Before Australia The Babysitter |
Verse |
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| John Grey Kelly Jean White Jason Emerson Ryan G. Van Cleave Lyn Lifshin Steven M. Hewitt Sean M. Olson Alan Catlin Margaret Cheney Karla Andersdatter Gillian Devereux Jonathan K. Rice Lynette Combs Robert L. Penick Joyce K. Cherry |
The Bird And The Glass Kin At The Grave Of Vachel Lindsay Drama 101 Near The Gray Stones Of The Episcopal Church Inventing Memories On The Road To Nowhere Martine Franks' Louis Aragon 1978 Leaving Guadalcanal #17 The Rose Skin Overcast Dying In The Dark The Night I Ruined Dinner The Aspiring Poet At The Coffee House |
Essay/Review |
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| David Chorlton Greg Avila |
Happy Talk Lyn Lifshin-Before It's Light |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson Sheila Giolitti E.A. Lynch Steven M. Hewitt |
Photographs Mixed media/Graphite drawing Artwork Photograph |
Summer 2001
Stories |
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| John B.
Rosenman Julia Rose John Burgwyn |
A Cinch For The Nationals
Stream Of Consciousness Excerpt #2 from Kinchen |
Verse |
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| Virginia O'Keefe Bill Ayres Robert Cooperman Alan Catlin Kenneth Pobo David Chorlton Don Winter Doris C. Baker Mark H.W. Hiebert Frank Johnson Clayton Vaughan Luisa Igloria Kimberly Medlin |
Air Show Tomcat Ocracoke At An Off Broadway Performance Manuel Puig's Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Dupage County Isabelle Eberhardt Taylor's Pawn Shop Nightscape The Boy Before The War Shoe Longing Rapture |
Essay/Review |
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| Hugh Fox Alexandra Kedrock |
Karla Andersdatter Waiting For Justice/Chiapas Mexico |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson David Chorlton E.A. Lynch Steven M. Hewitt |
Photographs Mixed Media Artwork Photograph |
Winter 2000
Stories |
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| Lenore Hart D. Herlihy Norton Girault John Burgwyn |
Birds In Their Little
Nests Agree Holy Baseball Dominion Excerpt from Kinchen |
Verse |
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| Clayton Vaughan Luisa Igloria C.A. Conrad Margaret Cheney Alan Catlin Sarah Black David Chorlton Don Winter Lawrence Welsh |
Backdoor Man & Block Rings On Elvis Storytellers Breaker Boys Mosaic As If Contributors Notes Stalled Avenue |
Essay/Review |
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| Robert Young Christopher Hanna |
Charlie Brown Goes To War
Of Mountains And The Arts... |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson Sheila Giolitti Nancy Cain E.A. Lynch |
Photographs Mixed Media Photograph Artwork |
Spring 2000
Stories |
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| John Henry
Doucette Terri Williams Norton Girault Al Rollins |
The Big One Poppa Games The End Of Yesterday |
Verse |
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| Al Markowitz Steven M. Hewitt Rick Alley Lynn Dean Hunter Bill Ayres Nan Byrne |
Saving Park Place When Igor Comes Home Jellyfish e-mail to Whitman Call & Response Band |
Commentary and Opinion |
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| J.D. Crutchfield Alex Marshall |
A Stroll Down Broadway Long Boats And Underground Vaults |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson Sheila Giolitti Greg Avila Helen Jones Don Harbor |
Photographs Mixed Media Construction Photograph Photograph |
Performing Arts |
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| Christopher Hanna |
Portrait Of The Artist As
A Homeowner |
Summer 1999
Stories |
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| Terry Perrell Shep Siegel |
She Promises The
Impossible The Confrontation |
Verse |
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| Margaret Cheney Steven M. Hewitt Robert Young Anonymous Martin Kaszubowski Ralph Reynolds |
To A Nearly Full Moon |
Commentary and Opinion |
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| Greg Avila Alex Marshall |
Americana Homeland |
Original Art |
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| Mark Atkinson Karla Mann Ces Ochoa |
Photographs Graphite Drawing Line Drawing |
Performing Arts |
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| Michael Buchanan |
The Show Must Go On...? |
Fall 1998
Stories |
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| Al Rollins John Henry Doucette Greg Avila |
The Gray And Graceless
Sea Wire Mystery On The Wing |
Verse |
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| Norton Girault Margaret Cheney Steven M. Hewitt Clair T. Newbold |
Crack The Whip Forbidden City Kiss Tiger Salamanders Transitions |
Commentary and Opinion |
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| Alex Marshall Fred Nicholson |
Missing TV The State Of Israel On It's 50th Anniversary |
Original Art |
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| Helen Jones Karla Mann W.S. Bower Jr. Randy LeGrady |
Photograph Graphite Drawing Photograph Painting |
Performing Art |
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| Victoria Blake |
On Directing |
Spring 1998
Stories |
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| Al Rollins John Henry Doucette |
Whaddya Know? Five Quarters |
Verse |
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| Margaret Cheney Greg Avila Rick Alley |
Serengeti New Louisiana All Souls' Today |
Commentary and Opinion |
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| J.D. Crutchfield Kevin Doyle |
Let's All Apologize Rockin' The Free World |
Original Art |
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| Sheila Giolitti W.S. Brower Jr. |
Oil Paintings Photograph |
Performing Arts |
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| Michael Buchanan |
Old Actors Never Die |
Fall 1997
Stories |
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| Norton
Girault J.D. Crutchfield |
What Goes Around, Comes
Around... Train |
Verse |
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| Greg Avila Margaret Cheney |
Where's He Get That? The Mayor Of Skeets Tavern Why I Did Not Send You Flowers |
Commentary and Opinion |
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| Alex Marshall | In Praise Of Norfolk |
Original Art |
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| Bernice Becher Randy LeGrady Caroline Vaaler |
Photograph Graphite Drawing Photograph |
Performing Arts |
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| Victoria Blake Andy Vaaler |
Waiting For Betty Interview With An Accordionist |