5.2 - Summer/Fall 1993

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

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