Managing Editor

Raphael Cohen

Layout Editor

Alexandra Boyd

Poetry Editors

Kiala Givehand

H. K. Rainey

Fiction Editors

Lisen Stromberg

Naamen Tilahun

Creative Non-Fiction Editor

Jessica Langlois

Visual Arts Editor

Lyall Harris

Issue 12 will be released on May 21, 2010.  Our launch party will take place at the Layover bar in downtown Oakland (1517 Franklin Street), from 5:30 to 8 p.m.  Free and open to the public.  Come on out and be among the first to purchase a copy.

Issue 11- 2009

Table of Contents

Poetry:

Benjamin Grossberg Ambition and Greening Song
Matthew Lany Weird Eggs and Ubiquitous Brood
David Meltzer Dreams
Sharon Doubiago Desire, Conception, The Invention of Writing, and The Surrealist
Erick Mertz Palms of Ash
Lisa Birman i fear my country when it is with your country
Matthew Lippman A Great Man is not an Onion
Onnesha Roychoudhuri Other
Miriam Jones What I Remember
Jennifer Reimer Even the heat has left our house
Michelle Kern Mother & I Thought
Jose Antonio Rodriguez Between Snores and Polyester and The Ache of Pupils
Shelly Clements Thirst
Molly Albracht Dying in the warm breast of morning
Susanna Kittredge Starts to Sleep
Greg Koehler Calfkiller River Dirge and Caloosahatchee River Dirge

Prose:

Christamar Varicella Attachments
Sheba Karim Heavenly Ornaments
Gina Boubion Hosed
Samantha Isasi The Great Escapist
Dan Bevacqua Numbers
A. H. Wald Lies My Uncle Told Me
Jason Hinchcliffe Dream Gathering
Cornelia Nixon Excerpt from Jarrettsville
Emily Hunger Victoriana
Dixon Hearne Don’t try me
Eli Hastings Finding Shelter
Matthew Peters Protocols
Courttia Newland All Woman
Renee Summerfield what you don’t know about bandits
Marc Lowe tails
Allison Gruber The Real Dian Fossey
Salem Pflueger Excerpt from The Unfound

Drama:

Robin Rice Lichtig Blood Sisters

Art:

Cynthia Beth Rubin Stepping Stones and Spanish Dreams
Eugene Datta Embrace and When No One Was Watching
Holly Boston Dancing Shannons
Christopher Woods The Walk