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21.2 - Summer/Fall 2009
2013 Barthelme Prize
Bats
by Lawrence Coates (WInner)
At the Edge of the Kitchen's Light
by Ana Reyes (Honorable Mention)
Cement Man
by Colin Winnette (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
The Sunbathers
by Halimah Marcus
Buffalo Cactus
by Sierra Bellows
Pritch
by Alan Stewart Carl
There's Nothing Here You'd Want
by Pamela Ryder
Poetry
Comfort
by Rosalie Moffett
Look Homeward Angel Now, and Melt with Ruth
by Nick Narbutas
The Golden Calf
by Meghan Privitello
Operation Daily Bread
by Kenny Williams
Insomnia as Art
by Adam O. Davis
Schadenfreude (Memory)
by John James
Lotto
by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Sam Says Let’s Go To The City & See Joe Strummer
by John R. Beardsley
Half from an Economist, and Half from a Novel
by Carolyn Creedon
Gatekeeper
by Richie Hofmann
after lunch, some poems
by Rodney Koeneke
[Near the end, James]
by Keith Leonard
Pornographic Appeal (Prayer) to Tezcatilpoca
by Joe Wenderoth
Satan is Real
by Joe Wenderoth
Two poems:
Low Note, and
Spring Reflection
by Craig Morgan Teicher
Against Porcelain
by Ines Pujos
Nonfiction
Attempts at Love
by John D'Agata
A Walk Into the Night
by Jennifer Sinor
Archaeology
by Will Boast
John the Baptist
by Timothy Denevi
Reviews
Joanne Dominique Dwyer,
Belle Laide
by Conor Bracken
Kyle Minor,
Praying Drunk
by Julia Brown
Rigoberto González:
Unpeopled Eden
by Katie Condon
Art
To the Lighthouse: Zineb Sedira & Ranjana Khanna in Conversation
by A. Powell, R. Khanna and Z. Sedira
Maintaining Cars, Pools, and Other Modernities: Clarissa Tossin's Brasilia
by Mariola V. Alvarez
Fruit Metaphors, Objects, and Histories: The Work of Fallen Fruit
by Legier Biederman
In this issue
Tonight I'm Gonna Party Like It's 2099
Wait Awhile Until I Can Find My Smile
The Saddest Sounds I Can Imagine
You Make Me Sit Alone By The Telephone And I Don't Mind
I Haven't Been Heard From In Days
Be Mad, Be Rash, Smoke And Explode, Resist Or Move On
We'll Dance Our Way Out Of The Womb
Love Manifesto
Oh, Those Mirrors With Memory,
Oh, Those Mirrors with Memory
Souvenir Vessel for Rumbo Newspaper - circa 20th c.,Texas, USA
National Guard & F.D.N.Y. Whirligigs - circa 20th c., New York, USA
Details from M.A.R.S. Cache
Wall Shelf with Artifacts - from M.A.R.S. Cache
Doll? - circa 20th c., Appalachia, USA
M.L.B. Test Plate - circa 20th c., Ohio, USA
Slogan Shard - dated 2001, Washington DC
G.O.P. Shard - dated 1994, from M.A.R.S. Cache
Life in the Twenty-First Century
Unearthing History: The Merchantville Archaeological Research Site
Looking for the Post-Gay The New Frontiers of Queer Fiction
Litany, Game, and Representation Charting an Arc from the Old to the New Poetry
A Live Fish in the Hand: The Soul Powers of the Prose Poem
Glen Pourciau's Invite
How Do You Bottle the Lightning?
A Novel Is Like a Marriage
Little Apocalyps
ekatra iva alambana
santa styana bhauma
Talking About the Wind
Strange Litany
Pegasus
dusk, dog pack, the Devil's Music
Beguine at water pump
Vernal Windows
To June of the Night Blooming Jasmine
Chaperone
Dog
Apocrypha 114 degrees
Vodka
Building a Chicken-Wire Trellis
Shedding
Spirit Pond
Le Monde
Phone Call to Younger Brother with Liszt
Bread and Butter
Meditation at Ripton
Self-Portrait
Egypt Journal: Christmas at the Great Pyramid
Egypt Journal:The Poet's Condition
Slow mo bullet
Manos
Black Hole Itinerary
Last Call
Things I will want to tell you
Sweet
Tacitus at the Underground Station
Ode to Black 6
Waking, 2
Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara
For the Honorable Wayne LaPierre
Transaction History 2
Babel
Veterinary Department
Department of Telescopes
Learning the Language
Still Dancing
from not merely because of the unknown.
Dominoes
The Naked Hours
We Rode Around
You Are What You Like
Afternoon
I Am Sleeping
Check the Baby
When in Cachoeira