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May 1996

 
  • Kay Barnes
  • Trent Busch
  • David Clewell
  • Matt Collinsworth
  • Theodore Deppe
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A Day In The Life

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Enough

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Saudade

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Yenser
    • A Day In The Life
  • David Clewell
    • Enough
  • Michael Spence
    • Saudade
  • F. D. Reeve
    • Longings
  • Trent Busch
    • Gay
  • Ronald Wallace
    • The Friday Night Fights
  • Matt Douglas Collinsworth
    • Buffalo
    • My Father's Son
    • A Vision Down On Red River
    • Amid The Steady Green
  • R. T. Smith
    • Manicure
    • Boy, Recollected
    • Reading Groups
  • Kay Barnes
    • Willow
  • Fleda Brown Jackson
    • The Pupil
  • Fatima Lim-Wilson
    • Teaching My Son His Abakadas
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Trails Of Fire And Spirits
  • Theodore Deppe
    • Red Pigeons
  • Eric Nelson
    • The Remains
    • Estate Sale
  • Gary Short
    • Breath
    • I Lay My Brother Down
  • Brent Goodman
    • The Brother Swimming Beneath Me
  • Martin Galvin
    • Introductions
  • Philip Kobylarz
    • A Bill, Posted
  • Libby Stott
    • Retired
  • Rex Wilder
    • Screened Porch, Druid Hills
  • Charles W. Pratt
    • May 15
Contents
  • Ben Howard
    • Forms and Discoveries
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kay Barnes
  • Trent Busch
  • David Clewell
  • Matt Douglas Collinsworth
  • Theodore Deppe
  • Martin Galvin
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Brent Goodman
  • Ben Howard
  • Fleda Brown Jackson
  • Philip Kobylarz
  • Fatima Lim-Wilson
  • Eric Nelson
  • Charles W. Pratt
  • F. D. Reeve
  • Gary Short
  • R. T. Smith
  • Michael Spence
  • Libby Stott
  • Ronald Wallace
  • Rex Wilder
  • Stephen Yenser
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