Issue 61
Volume XXXII Issue #61
From the Editor
Brenda Miller
2008 Contest Winners
49th Parallel Poetry Award
Kaveh Bassiri, Invention of God
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
Lauren Smith Traore, The Widow’s Tale
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
Edward O’Connell, The Hunting Horn
Poetry
| Carolyne Wright | Eulene Dresses a Squid |
| Matthew Gavin Frank | No Bells in Tuscola |
| Maureen Clark | Surfacing |
| Lauren Smith Traore | Nativity |
| Chris Forhan | The Case Against Me |
| Children’s Chorus | |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval | High Water |
| Hadara Bar-Nadav | No Sea Inside |
| Blind Fragment | |
| Kelly Davio | Gula |
| Elizabeth Bachinsky | Strange Ritual |
| Anna Lowe | My Mother’s Final Words |
| Forgive Me | |
| Maya Jewell Zeller | A New Kind of Romance |
| I Set My Alarm for 2:52, but They Had the Time Wrong for Us Out Here in the West | |
| Patrick Carrington | Bicycles |
| My Father Auditions for the Flying Wallendas | |
| Rocco Lungariello | The Secrecy of Death |
| J. Mae Barizo | The Concert Review |
| Lux Aeterna | |
| Rae Gouirand | Above France |
| Kate Buckley | In the Garden |
| Doug Sanders | All Seasons None |
| Imperialism | |
| Erinn Batykefer | In O’Keefe’s From the Lake, No. 3 |
| Elizabeth Austen | Overhead, Underfoot |
| Where Currents Meet | |
Creative Nonfiction
| Anisse-Marie Gross | Forevertron |
| Mardi Link | Chicken Trilogy |
| Ona Gritz | On the Whole |
Fiction
| Micah Nathan | The Love Life of Tigers |
| Michael Czyzniejewski | Cwm |
| Scott Boyan | Stick Man |
| Margarite Landry | Scene with Sea Creatures |
| Nicholas Maistros | Miss Cindy |
| Katie Flynn | Honeymoon |
| Lori Ostlund | The Bigness of the World |
Photography
| Bridget Kameen | Growth |
| Reaching Out |
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| Summer Moon Scriver | Defying Conventions |
| Providing a Human Thread |
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| Jesse L. Young | Rails & Leaves |
| After Hours at the Market |
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| Gwynneth Anderson | Grace Fully Reflected |
| Jesse Ross | Oleander on Canvas No. 1 |