39.1 | FALL/WINTER 2012
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Emma Sovich MANAGING EDITOR: Brandi Wells
FICTION EDITOR: Dara Ewing NONFICTION EDITOR: Barry Grass
POETRY EDITOR: Laura Kochman DESIGN EDITOR: Annie Agnone
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Laurel Billings, Tom Cotsonas, Annie Hartnett, Jake Kinstler, Erica Meyers, Jessica Richardson, Brandi Wells, Leia Penina Wilson
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Laurel Billings, Jake Kinstler, Laura Kochman, Erica Meyers, Bethany Startin, Brandi Wells, Leia Penina Wilson
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Aaron Beasley, Anne Brettell, Jonathan Dubow, Emma Furman, Molly Goldman, Jason McCall, Christopher O. McCarter, Erica Meyers, Bethany Startin, Ben Voigt, Brandi Wells, Leia Penina Wilson
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Jake Kinstler, Christopher O. McCarter, Erica Meyers
FICTION
Ron A. Austin: Do It Yourself
Jessica Chrastil: Ballad of Perpetual Fathers
Michael Czyzniejewski: The Killer Always Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Norman Lock: 10 Impossible Objects
Ben Merriman: DMV
m k s volkofsky: See Oh Oh Pee [that]
NONFICTION
Brian Trapp: My City in Two Dog Parks
Amanda Webster: An Apple Is a Rose
POETRY
Kelly Forsythe: Historical Documents
Sarah V. Schweig: Room with Two Windows
Diane Seuss: Oh four-legged girl, it’s either you or the ossuary (SLS Contest Winner)
Marcela Sulak: Hebrew Lesson: Lichbosh
David Ward: Walking into the Ground
Jennifer Rosario Wong: Apparitions
FEATURE
Julie Carr: [Anna]
Amanda DeMarco: At Most (with Kristen Radtke & Mathias Svalina)
Jehanne Dubrow: Malamute
Sasha Fletcher: i am afraid at times of the stories i tell | wake up your saints and settle down for the night
Aaron Gilbreath: Between Disappearances
Johannes Göransson: The Hostage Crisis
Eric LeMay: Viral-Ize
Prathna Lor: from DADDY
J. Michael Martinez: Self-Portrait as One-Night Stand | Where Timid Gestures Black
Rachel Mennies: Regarding the Burial (with Ken Weaver & Angela Stubbs) | Anatomy (II)
Kristen Radtke: In 1942 (with Amanda DeMarco & Mathias Svalina) | Overture
Meg Reilly: kombucha king
Anne Marie Rooney: Am I going to get raped in the park where I read my mother’s poem | Page which depletes and denies
Angela Stubbs: A Vocation from Mercy (with Rachel Mennies & Ken Weaver)
Janaka Stucky: from THE SAINT CHILDREN
Mathias Svalina: Papers and Marianas (with Amanda DeMarco & Kristen Radtke) | The Andromeda Strain, a Novel by Michael Crichton
Cole Swensen: from Landscapes on a Train
ART
Rune Guneriussen: A parasitic gesture (cover)
Graphic Writing
Jenna Brager: Sketches of a Self-Portrait, After Mark Aguhar
Flynn Nicholls: Relic
CHAPBOOK
Sueyeun Juliette Lee: No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise