Issue 62
Volume XXXIII, Issue #62
From the Editor
Letter from the Editor
Brenda Miller
2009 Contest Winners
49th Parallel Poetry Award
All Alien Spirits Rest the Spirit
Elizabeth McLagan
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
SPN
Irene Keliher
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
In the Fade
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Poetry
| Chloe Honum | Ballerina, Released |
| Spring II | |
| Rae Gouirand | One by One |
| Infinitesimal | |
| Jennifer Elmore | My Lemony, Lip-Cracking Crescendo |
| Paulann Petersen | Wax |
| Use | |
| Heather Kirn | Ars Poetica |
| Headline: Baby Left Out in Snow Overnight | |
| Benjamin S. Grossberg | The Space Traveler and Depiliation |
| The Space Traveler’s Heaven | |
| Anne Shaw | Three Elegies |
| Fourth-Grade Foyer | |
| Mary K. Stillwell | Piano Four Hands |
| Ronda Broatch | Little Hope Blues |
| What She Left on the Bookshelf of Another Room | |
| Natasha Kochicheril Moni | Somewhere the Smell of Flowering Red |
| Suzanne M. Levine | I’d Forgotten About the Lamb |
| Karin Gottshall | Burdock |
| Shelter | |
| Nina Lindsay | Nest |
| Wendy Willis | Oblation |
| Reliquary | |
| Melissa Kwasny | Talk to the Milkweed |
| Talk to the Great Suffering | |
| Nathan Elijah Graham | Around Here |
| The Farmer in This Field | |
| Mary Ann O’Gorman | Separation |
| Bobby C. Rogers | Regarding Symbols |
| Christopher Howell | About Flesh |
| Ingmar Bergman Postcard | |
| Laura Shoemaker | The Beekeeper’s Veil |
| Honey | |
| Jason Tandon | My Father Attends to the Death of His Father |
| Joanna Rose | Being Fifty-Five |
| Tarfia Faizullah | Nocturne: Car Accident |
| Aubade: Road Trip | |
| Aubade: Summer, Texas |
Creative Nonfiction
| Nancy McCabe | Can This Troubled Marriage Be Saved: A Quiz |
| Julie Jeanell Lueng | Moon Snails |
| Susan Buis | The Ocean Sounds Cold |
Fiction
| Susie Wyss | Names |
| Josh Wallaert | Geography |
| Ingrid Satelmajer | The Lecturer |
| L. Annette Binder | Wrecking Ball |
| Gretchen Duggan | Loneliness Creatures |
| Vanessa Blakeslee | Mani Rosse |
Photography
| Stephen Zimmerman | Exits |
| Nick Shiflet | Gabe’s Grimace |
| Chaim Bezalel | Geese |
| Aholaah Arzah | Swingset |
| Maria Meneses | Glacier Point |
| Boating |