—after Paul Klee
If we hope to accomplish anything of substance today,
you must stop sleeping, feeding
and sniffing the air
for signs of one another's ill intentions.
Better,
now:
Griselda, turn over three times, then run to the forest!
Hansdieter, stand up straight!
Widukind, leap into the arms of that nearby woman!
Annalisa, back into your cage!
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Issue 69
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- Ace Boggess
- David Bottoms
- Melissa Crowe
- Gregory Djanikian
- Allison Donohue
- Susan Grimm
- Scott Hightower
- Henry Kearney, IV
- Cindy King
- Stephen Knauth
- Nina Lindsay
- Marissa Simone McNamara
- Catherine Pond
- Emily Ransdell
- Adam Scheffler
- David Starkey
- Phil Timpane
- Sally Van Doren
- Martha Webster
- Abigail Wender
- Bruce Willard
- Mark Zelman
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FICTION
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ESSAY
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REVIEW
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers
by Robert McNamara
- David Rigsbee reviews Incomplete Strangers
Issue > Poetry
David Starkey
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2010 Poet Laureate and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including The American Scholar, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review and in seven full-length collections, most recently Like a Soprano, an episode-by-episode revisioning of The Sopranos television series.Lions, Attention Please!
Poetry
Emily Ransdell
Bowling In Heaven
Poetry
Phil Timpane
She Tells Me
Poetry
Bruce Willard
January Bus Ride