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24.2 - Summer/Fall 2012
2011 Barthelme Prize
Grand Canyon II
by Erica Olsen
(Winner)
Master Bedroom
by Sonja Vitow
(Honorable Mention)
Why I Became a Fireman
by Paul Zaic (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
Listen
by Liam Callanan
Kat Daddy
by Thomas Cooper
Happy Birthday, Clementine
by Lisa Glatt
A View from Pulkovo
by Josip Novakovich
Hunger Strike
by Kevin Wilson
Joseph
by Etgar Keret, trans. Sondra Silverston
Poetry
At the Age of Fifteen Some of the Necessary Facts of the World
by Jeff Alessandrelli
Two poems:
Wright Park
, and
Brown Refrigerator
by
Rick Barot
Sideshow
by Ciaran Berry
Birthday Party
by Jason Bredle
Dumb Girl
by Lissa Cattrone
Two poems:
[The boss wears wrist guards I risk carpal tunnel without them can't]
, and
[The boss looks over us the boss likes us the boss lurks us the boss irks us]
by
Victoria Chang
Still Life
by Jehanne Dubrow
Two poems:
To Cora Goldman, My Exorcist
, and
Arriving at School in My Underwear, My Exorcist is the Principal
by
Brandi George
America (Train)
by Kathleen Graber
The Impossibly Boy Returns
by Bradley Harrison
Between Menus
by Jennifer L. Knox
Two poems:
A Round Porcelain Jam Pot, Again
, and
Rescue Song
by
Joy Katz
Two poems:
A Recent Transformation Tries To Climb the Stairs
, and
When the World Was Ten Years Old He Fell Deep in Love with Egypt
by
Patricia Lockwood
Ceremony for Lying Completely Still
by Marni Ludwig
Colony Collapse: The Colony Has Collapsed Before
by Erin Lyndal Martin
Unfunky UFO, 1981
by Adrian Matejka
The Soft Machinery of the Dark
by Kyle McCord
The First Part of the Earth
by Shane McCrae
Staking a Claim
by Erika Meitner
Wolf Cento
by Simone Muench
America Mix-Tape, Track 51
by Jason Myers
a field guide to pronouncing vegetable
by Robby Nadler
[a woman in Dior]
by Mark Neely
Two poems:
Torch Song: Hickory
by Allyson Paty
, and
Torch Song: Stagger Lee
by
Allyson Paty and Danniel Schoonebeek
Latent Print: Pale Suits
by Emilia Phillips
Enthusiasm as Inheritance
by Thibault Raoult
From "Elegy in X Parts"
by Matt Rasmussen
Poem for Virgil Banescu
by Matthew Rohrer
Yoga I
by Sandra Simonds
The Wine-Dark Sea
by Mathias Svalina
Tea Ceremony
by G.C. Waldrep
Two poems:
Love Letter Committing Some Other Crime
, and
A Husband Is a Telescope with Long Legs
by
Fritz Ward
Nonfiction
Marriage in a Time of AIDS
by Alan Barstow
Axis
by Carand Burnet
Two works:
Part Miracle
, and
Altared There in a Darksome Place
by Tom Lake
Unsleeping
by Matthew Mahaney
The Treachery of Trees
by Marilyn Martin
Making Fine
by Ben Merriman
Convergence
by Amy Lee Scott
Interviews
"I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth
by Zachary Martin
Erica Olsen, winner of the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Fiction responds to my inquiries about her piece “Grand Canyon II.”
by Erica Olsen
"I came from a tussle with the sea": An interview with Michael Ondaatje
by JP O'Malley
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