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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Issue 46
June 21-August 21 (2008)

A few days ago I heard a (Caucasian) man use the "N" word. Yeah, that word. Honestly, I was more surprised than offended or indignant. It was as if I were hearing someone speak in a dead language from a dead age, or witnessing someone emphatically argue that the earth is indeed flat. I just hadn't heard that kind of language or, more importantly, encountered that sort of flagrant prejudice in quite some time.

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POETRY

Introduction by guest-editor Susan Terris. Work by Steven Lautermilch, Bruce Boston, Amber Flora Thomas, Brenda Mann Hammack, Taylor Graham, Rachna Vohra, Michelle Bitting, Reid Mitchell, Steven D. Schroeder, Doug Ramspeck, Cody Todd, Robert Klein Engler, Scott Owens, Persis M. Karim, Vincent A. Cellucci, and Sandra Kohler.

FICTION

Work by Paul Graham and Emmanuel Sigauke.

INTERVIEWS

Lee Rossi interviews Ellen Bryant Voigt

REVIEWS

JoSelle Vanderhooft reviews Erin Elizabeth Smith's The Fear of Being Found, The Bizarro Starter Kit, Edward Hirsch's Special Orders, and Jared Smith's The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations. Kristina Marie Darling reviews Joanna Catherine Scott's Night Huntress. Alice Osborn reviews Seven Valleys of Love and Philip Murray's Poems. Matthew Katz reviews Yoko Ogawa's The Diving Pool. CL Bledsoe reviews Peter Krok's Looking for an Eye.