archive 2008

2008:1

Intruder
fiction
Julio Froberg

After the Party, Which, As Predicted, Did Not Go Well
fiction
Andrew Roe

Two Poems
poetry
Ben Latini

Christmas in Burma
fiction
Christopher Luppi

Potato I Have: A derived text sourced from James Joyce's Ulysses
fiction
William Walsh

bare bones
poetry
Alek Lindus

The 49er's Kitten Lecture
fiction
Mike Young

After Kunstschau
poetry
Benjamin Fidler

Moths 10 & 11
fiction
Michael Stewart

Poem 5 (from Five Buddha Poems)
poetry
Deborah Kreuze

Door
poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki

Twilight
poetry
Rohith Sundararaman

The Things I Made of the Night
fiction
Daniel Bailey

Oblique I
Oblique II

poetry
Daniel Y. Harris

Aluminum Stairs
fiction
Eireene Nealand

This is not my problem
fiction
Minna Lincoln

Nothing
poetry
Michael Hemmingson

Replica McFlurry Killer
poetry
Bryan Coffelt

Staggered
poetry
Rebekah Judson

The Third Sleeve
fiction
Matthew Savoca

Tidying
poetry
Eric Burke

Reticence
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

Sharón
poetry
Boris Zilberman

Abstinence
poetry
Sarah Mirza

Letters to Darwin
poetry
Jeffrey Calhoun

these plastic roses
poetry
Justin Hyde

Even the Girl
poetry
Michael Estabrook



2008:2

A Staten Island Woman
(from "Wonder Women")

fiction
Mike Topp

. object music .
If you sense that the characters
how robotic:
once gathered

poetry
Colie Collen

Batzenhofen, I-VIII
fiction
Adam Siegel

Thought
fiction
Greg Mulcahy

How Little Is Enough
from The Dictionary of Lost Usage
poetry
Lucas Bernhardt

Big Cages
fiction
Kim Chinquee

Holler Song
The Hours Flower Briefly

poetry
K.R. Copeland

The Sense of Order:
the Art of Giorgio Morandi

essay
Ron Singer

Snow
poetry
Emily Anderson

32.58.01
35.58.01

poetry
Patrick Leonard

Automated Response to Mark Strand
At the West Oakland BART

poetry
Andrew Demcak

Progress
poetry
Kristin Ravel

You Are Not Clark Kent
fiction
Stephanie Johnson

The Death of Fancy
poetry
Robert Lopez & Audrey Kessler

Midwife II
fiction
Sarah Eaton

United Noodles
poetry
Brian Beatty

On the Tomb of Yeats
poetry
AE Reiff

Tourist
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

Wounded Knee, South Dakota
poetry
Ross Rader

For William Logan
poetry
Jon Cone

wakeup. i'm waiting
poetry
Catherine Moran

Gaslight
poetry
David Michael Wolach

Open
poetry
Alicia Hoffman

The Dystopian Imaginary
poetry
Howie Good

When the Fire Broke
fiction
Eva Talmadge

nobody dies
storyboard 13
stop left, here

poetry
martin de mello

Instrumental
poetry
Ben Latini

Cars
fiction
Kathryn Gossow

One, Two
fiction
Conor Robin Madigan

etiquette
poetry
Scott Muska

A Family, in Triptych
fiction
Ashley Murray



2008:3

Running Red
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Ode
poetry
Catherine Moran

from "Glossolalia"
poetry
John Findura

Sketch
Failure

poetry
Andrea Kneeland

As Sure As Pendulums Reverse Their Swing
poetry
Jasmine Dreame Wagner

excerpt from VOLTI SUBITO CANTABILE MORENDO
fiction
Prathna Lor

The Thief
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

In Swedenborg's Heaven
He Ain't Skeered
"There Are Levels Past Which Things No Longer Connect"

poetry
Derek Owens

Whalesong Poem
advice for orcas

poetry
Beth Langford

A Review of Michael C. Boyko's
The Hour Sets
Brandon Hobson

Bowlers of Emergent Barristers
fiction
Julio Froberg

A Review of John Olson's
Backscatter: New and Selected Poems
Norman Lock

Gyre
poetry
AE Reiff

Thread Count
fiction
Heidi McKye

You'll Die
poetry
Conor Robin Madigan

Over in the Basement, Not an Inch Between
fiction
Jan Carson

Protein-binding regions
poetry
Evelyn Hampton

Conservation
Oil

fiction
Darlin' Neal

War!
fiction
Paul Kavanagh

Our Mother's Bones
fiction
Antonios Maltezos

Rune for
poetry
Gracie Leavitt

Paradise Nursing Home
fiction
Philip Quinn



2008:4

Some devils
Vessel, cleaved --

poetry
Elizabeth Sampson

The McKenna Poem
Stone

poetry
Jared Wahlgren

The elimae Interview:
James Lewelling

James Lewelling's Tortoise
review
James Lough

from Pieces for Small Orchestra
fiction
Norman Lock

Reasonable
fiction
Brian Foley

Re:member
fiction
Jimmy Chen

Excerpt from The Other Woman
poetry
Cynthia Reeser

Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity

poetry
Jess Rowan

Heft
Chaffbeater
Pasture

fiction
Stevie Davis

Bride to Be
poetry
Ben Latini

Emeritus Emeritus
Bismarck Cream
The Loath Oath

poetry
Brian Beatty

For It To Make Edge-wise in This Living Hatch a Difference That Is Worthy
Boots

poetry
Jon Cone

Innus Merritt James, Participant
The Upper-Right Cheek of The Face of The Bob Hope Expedition

fiction
Richard Parks

Aeaea
fiction
M. T. Fallon

Jack and Jill I
poetry
Roger W. Hecht

Cropped
poetry
Benjamin Nardolilli

The Suspects
poetry
Christopher Cheney

Sugar and salt
fiction
Sara Crowley

from Avatar
fiction
Evan Lavender-Smith

Likert Scale
fiction
Rachel Andelman

The Geneticist
prose
Simona Schneider

The Glass Womb
fiction
Scott Hughes

des moines iowa is just as good a place
poetry
Justin Hyde

Native Texans
essay
AE Reiff

Electro Lux Imbroglio
poetry
Howie Good

The World Began
poetry
Tammy Ho Lai-ming

Block
poetry
Heather A. McMacken



2008:5

A Note on the Type
fiction
Ravi Mangla

The Saint of Dogs
The Saint of Bears
The Saint of Mice (II)
The Saint of Patience
Foundlings II
The yo-yo emperor

poetry
Kate Schapira

bird holocaust
You and you and you and you
Banned delicacies

poetry
Erin Davison

Duty
poetry
Heather Palmer

If You Are Able
poetry
E.C. Messer

Kill the Gnome
poetry
Peter Berghoef

Speak only of the weather --
poetry
Genevieve Kaplan

In the Surf
poetry
Harold Bowes

Camouflage
poetry
Brian Beatty

Boxes
fiction
Thomas Cooper

Sacrifice
fiction
Megan Roth

Mother Earth to Ajax
poetry
Jeanette M. Sayers

How To
fiction
Aaron Burch

[specimen]
[specimen]

poetry
Mark Cunningham

Decision
poetry
Daniel Spinks

When I Moved from Nevada
Party

fiction
Jamie Iredell

Da Capo
fiction
Steven Felicelli

Instruction Manual for Robots who want to collect Comic Books
you put a condom on my computer and may have aztec blood and possibly many robots

fiction
Craig Snyder

Jane and the Modern Wars
poetry
Daniela Olszewska

Other Fish
fiction
Robyn Detterline

Cardiomyopathy
poetry
Sig Lovejoy

8
fiction
M. Thomas Gammarino

How I Became Upper Class
poetry
Hedy Zimra

At the Edge of History
poetry
Howie Good

Eugenia's Teeth
fiction
Antonios Maltezos

Gone
fiction
Michelle Reale

[a this fun e-real]
poetry
John Moore Williams

from Flame
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

reverence of solidity
poetry
John Goodman

Her grin
Toast

poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki

This Submission to elimae Is Going to Change My Life
fiction
Shane Jones



2008:6

New Accounts of Selfhood
That Was a Pity
At the Same Time
Core of the Apple

poetry
Kristen Orser

What His Wife Looks Like
poetry
Talia Reed

Six
Thirteen
Sixteen

fiction
Brandi Wells

Pyramid
fiction
Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf

Dealing Pompeii
Division of Labor

poetry
A. Minetta Gould

We Shall Dine
poetry
Charmi Keranen

The Spice Trade
fiction
Stephen Nelson

The Coming of the Steppe Peoples
fiction
Greg Gerke

Drown
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

Chimps
fiction
Martin Law

Night Sea
A Month of Sundays

fiction
Jared Hegwood

Level 2, Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.
fiction
Amber Krieger

She Wanted a Dog
fiction
Meg Pokrass

Creating a Radio
fiction
Matt Bell

And Then She Went Home
fiction
Melanie Haney

Apocalypse Mambo
poetry
Howie Good

Universal
poetry
Brian Beatty

Do Not Look into the Mother's Head
fiction
Blake Butler

We
fiction
Lindsay Hunter

Pequod: Toothpick chunks of Ahab
poetry
Dave Oprava

baked, not fried
poetry
Rachael Haws

The Logs Are Lashed like Fingers Above a Keyboard
poetry
Harold Bowes

Pinning It Down
poetry
Steve Klepetar

Patchwork
poetry
Julio Froberg

haiku
poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki

chase
poetry
Kimberly Go

Part II
poetry
Aya Ibrahim

Receding Air Lines
poetry
William Soule

I traced a girl's ear.
fiction
krammer abrahams

Tonic
fiction
Sean Ruane

Thumb's-Up-Seven-Up
fiction
Barry Graham

Fiction
fiction
A D Jameson



2008:7

Four from Parcel Post Belgique:
Cirlgors / Bruant zizi (0,05)
Kwartelkonig / Râle de genêts (0,30)
Wintertaling / Sarcelle d'hiver (0,05)
Somewhere Over Copenhagen (Perhaps)

fiction
Forrest Roth

Card
They'd Get Uniforms
Superhero
Pepsi and Milk

fiction
Kim Chinquee

Plasms: Without Climax:
21, 22, 23, 24

poetry
Ira S. Murfin

Blind
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

Theosophy
poetry
Sean Patrick Hill

Interview with Robert Lopez
Alexandra Leggat

From the Russian:
An Exercise in Translation

poetry
Harold Bowes

Tunapri
fiction
Sequoia Nagamatsu

My dad is a tall child
fiction
Richard Parks

Well
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Foot in Mouth
fiction
Philip Quinn

The Poet Dictator
poetry
Debbie Benson

The Offer
fiction
Mark Doten

The Extruded Plastic Liturgy
poetry
Howie Good

Toward Maturity
poetry
Karen Neuberg

Night Before the Move
fiction
Justin Hyde

Communion
poetry
Diana Smith

Fabrication
poetry
Rebecca Eddy

Run
poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki

the seventy year old weightlifter
poetry
Justin Hyde

Between the Keys
fiction
Robert Swartwood

[Untitled]
fiction
Brandon Gorrell

Between the Lines
poetry
Glenn Taylor



2008:8

Fried Plantain
fiction
Robert Aquino Dollesin

I Had Time to Kill
He Went to Her: Oh Baby
Basic Training
She Felt like Being Messy
The Lot Was Almost Empty

fiction
Kim Chinquee

Party Girl
fiction
Jennifer Pieroni

Distillation
Curse

fiction
Greg Mulcahy

The Worm Inside the Head
On Certain Theories of the Heart

poetry
Jon Cone

Aisles
poetry
Jared Wahlgren

κανω μια τρυπα στο νερο
trajectories

poetry
Alek Lindus

Michelangelo v. Vatican
fiction
Jimmy Chen

After she fell
fiction
Cortney Philip

girl, walking home, holds impromptu funeral
poetry
Kimberly Go

Viking
fiction
Meg Pokrass

A New Cycle
fiction
Nathan Leslie

The Truth About the Lion Tamer's Wife as Told by the Ringmaster's Son
fiction
Bob Thurber

Suspicion
fiction
Matt Lavin

in resistance. level the field. ground
poetry
Gary Lundy

Watch
fiction
Tai Dong Huai

Picture Post
fiction
Margaret Chapman

Hunter
fiction
Isaac Wilder

Diptych
poetry
Adrienne J. Odasso

Morning: The Daily Tribunal
poetry
Dave Oprava

On Our Way
fiction
Jessica Breheny

Benedict
poetry
A.R. Buchinger

Flish Fade
fiction
Jo Mortimer



2008:9

Jesus
Our Nasty Mansion

poetry
M Sarki

How I See It
fiction
Tai Dong Huai

Holland Pond
The J in Monarch

poetry
Emily Jern-Miller

excerpt from
Still Places to Go

poetry
Paige Taggart

A Little Too Bukowski
poetry
A.R. Buchinger

I Knew
poetry
Harold Bowes

A Poem to Complete Section 40
of W.S. Graham's "Implements in Their Places"

poetry
Jon Cone

The Golf Talk
fiction
Buzz Mauro

Everything is as I expected it would be.
poetry
Rebecca Cross

[six] word memoirs
poetry
Chris Tiefel

When It Counts
Blank

fiction
Randall Brown

Sports
poetry
Ben Latini

Hearing the Hindenburg Arc
poetry
Derek Henderson

Cash Only
fiction
Peter Berghoef

Downfall of the Demonots
fiction
AE Reiff

This Is What She Told Me
fiction
Barbara Maloutas

The Great Plains, for L
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Dog Star Man
poetry
Howie Good

The Canonist
fiction
MT Fallon

New Forest
fiction
Sara Crowley

Unsent Letter #1/Flood
poetry
J. Michael Wahlgren

Roadkill
fiction
Jared Ward

Colonialism
poetry
Michael Caylo-Baradi

The Drunk Guy in the Child's Bed
fiction
Scott Garson

Self-Portrait
Memory
Factum Brutum?

poetry
Eric Burke

Soak Up the Sun
fiction
Dmitry Yegorov



2008:10

Wilderness
i.e.
i.e.
i.e.

poetry
Stacy Kidd

When He Died
fiction
Anne Germanacos

Cross
She Used to Have Nails
She Wanted to Say Thank You
All Her Ribbons

fiction
Kim Chinquee

We; the Fall of Rome
poetry
Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.

Field Nature
poetry
Danielle Wheeler

A Place
fiction
Angela Woodward

Will no one stand on this table of earth and condemn me
poetry
Mike Schorsch

Entities Otherwise
poetry
Forrest Roth

After the Crash
fiction
Melissa Palladino

The rest is harvest
fiction
Martin Reed

Tomlinson Saying the Ball Was Tipped
fiction
Kyle Minor

Remind Me, Someday, to Tell You, F
poetry
Brian Beatty

Whisper
poetry
Darin Bradley

Registering Vibrations in the Air
poetry
MC Hyland

Elegy for the Newborn
poetry
Howie Good

Crow
fiction
Jane L. Carman

That Love
fiction
Andrew Roe

Domestic
The Diving Bell

poetry
Sean Patrick Hill

Experts
Her Way

poetry
Jenn Scheck-Kahn

Gulf Shores, 1989
poetry
Megan Roth

Rich Bologna
fiction
Richard Parks

Two Fictions and a Truth
fiction
Erin Lila Kimray

News
poetry
Mike Topp

After Saroyan
poetry
Nicole Pioppi

Death by Chocolate Éclair
fiction
Ravi Mangla

Corrections & Clarifications
fiction
Robert Swartwood

Glue
fiction
Ben Segal

9.23
poetry
Heather Palmer

11
poetry
Brandon Gorrell

Dracula
He Makes Me Smile
First Date

(three excerpts from baby)
fiction
Ryan Richey

in parts, pieces
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Pep
fiction
Ben Stein

I Have Had Better Days
fiction
Paul Lisicky

Interval Between Beating Pulse and Sunrise
fiction
Noah Falck

Sluts from the Highlander
fiction
Jamie Iredell



2008:11

Hesitant
Balticisation

poetry
Rufo Quintavalle

The Little Door
fiction
Brandon Hobson

Cookie Hour
fiction
Jimmy Chen

If I Was Hungry
She Was Fasting
My Stomach Was a Monster
He Saw Inside Her

fiction
Kim Chinquee

Arcs
Undoubtedly You See Where This Is Going

poetry
Harold Bowes

Scarlet
fiction
Shellie Zacharia

Silver Beans
poetry
Brian Beatty

Instructions
poetry
Matthew Kirkpatrick

Honeymoon
Boat
Pocket

poetry
Catherine Moran

On Chemo
poetry
Chris Major

On Waking-Weekends
poetry
Chris Major

The New Socratic
Ur_

poetry
Yvette Thomas

A Catalog of Ordinary Miracles
poetry
Jon Cone

Another Strategy
for Christopher Kennedy

collage
Barry Graham

Afterlives
Leave-taking

poetry
Megan Martin

Drummers
fiction
Lydia Copeland

Uncrossable
fiction
Elizabeth Ellen

Death Summit
fiction
Adam Jameson

It's OK
Where Earth Touches Sky

poetry
Joe Kane

Killing Flies
fiction
Bob Thurber

& (ten)
fiction
J.A. Tyler

Somewhere, Back There
fiction
Bill Cook

You Motion Wait
Tubing

fiction
Nicole Elizabeth

Someone Bellows From a Sailboat
Revelation 4:11

fiction
Jonathan Doyle Spencer

Black Mirror
(Story)

poetry
Jackie Clark

Aubade
poetry
James Owens

Billing Notice
fiction
Peter Cherches

Primp
poetry
Olivia Cronk

Sisters
fiction
Stefanie Freele

IV
fiction
Jared Wahlgren

Leverage
poetry
Eric Beeny

Pass the Mustard
fiction
Tim Conley



2008:12

Duck Sauce
poetry
Mike Topp

Brief Crossing
poetry
Kate Durbin

Jazz on the Radio
essay
Jen Michalski

Roadkill
poetry
Chris Major

How To
How To

fiction
Aaron Burch

She Hadn't Called Anyone
Luck
In Her Head
Ghosts
Dish

fiction
Kim Chinquee

To Sir, With Love
Luck
Homage to R. Mutt's Urinal

poetry
Andrew Demcak

there are dogs breeding in the firepalce
people move their cars

poetry
Drew Kalbach

Field Notes
poetry
Jon Cone

6 o'clock
A Week

poetry
Rufo Quintavalle

Display
poetry
Sonya Arko

Notes on Empathy
poetry
Howie Good

Dessert
Liberty

fiction
Meg Pokrass

Render, or to transmit to another
fiction
Laura Ellen Scott

Beneath Me
fiction
Tai Dong Huai

Prayer
poetry
Jared Michael Wahlgren

Boy Scouts Fulfilling
Tsars at Daybreak

poetry
Lincoln Michel

Corduroy
poetry
Brian Beatty

Don DeLillo in His Masterful Novel Libra: Three Poems
poetry
Adam Siegel

Wind Wing
fiction
Bonnie ZoBell

Something Else
fiction
Randall Brown

Our Constructivist Past
Nievpravda

fiction
Ryan Griffith

Hay-Wire-Ing from Wire to Wire
poetry
Zachary C. Bush

Phylogeny
poetry
Sonya S. Fehèr

The Anonton Glyphs
fiction
Craig Davis

Tuskegee National Forest, January
poetry
Joseph P. Wood

Fled
fiction
Matthew Savoca

Postcard from Brazil
fiction
Ania Vesenny

The One in Which the Word Appears Again Because I Still Mean It
poetry
Junior Clemons

Hieroglyphics
poetry
Sara Kearns

What to expect when it's over
fiction
Shelly Rae Rich

(We share the last seat on the last car of the last subway ride out of here)
fiction
Philip Quinn

Mortimer
fiction
Brandi Wells

Peter, Goodbye
Home Cut
For the Summer

fiction
Jennifer Pieroni

Home Goods
My Boy

fiction
Dave Erlewine

Glass Half-Full
poetry
Eric Beeny

(untitled)
poetry
Peter Berghoef

Celia and Roger
poetry
Kim Parko

The Seeing Hand
fiction
Jolie Braun

from "Trio Bagatelles"
fiction
Peter Cherches

[untitled]
[sequel]
[sequel]

poetry
AE Reiff

Vodka Man
fiction
Bill Cook

ernest hemingway
poetry
Sasha Fletcher

at the orphanage
poetry
Caleb Powell