ISSUE SIX

EDITOR'S SCRATCHING POST
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AUTHOR IMITATION POETRY
Tom Brady: Five poems (Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, others)
Ralph-Michael Chiaia: Allegra-D (T.S. Eliot)
Lynne Shapiro: Ozone Park to Zone Five (Guillaume Apollinaire)
Jonathan Hayes: Swansea Song (Dylan Thomas)
Lisa Nickerson: Four poems (Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, e.e. cummings, others)
Kyle Hemmings: The Other Side of This World (Jack Kerouac)
Peggy Landsman: Two poems (T.S. Eliot and A.E. Robinson)
Serena Spinello: Two poems (Sylvia Plath)
Christian Ward: Three poems (Ruth Stone)
Ra! Gabriel: Donate Now (Donald Barthelme)
Sandra Maddux-Creech: The Parrot (Edgar Allan Poe)
Roxanne Hoffman: Two poems (Robert Burns)
David McLean: Five poems (Phillip Larkin)
Misti-Rainwater Lites: Three poems (Anne Sexton)

REGULAR POETRY
Robert Tiffin: Three poems
Tom Sheehan: Two poems
John T. Clark: Two poems
Randy Lowens: Seeking Z Axis On the Pages of GQ
FEATURED POETRY
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Michael Frissore: Four poems
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Joseph Veronneau: Three poems
Daniel Crocker: The Unclean
Ra! Gabriel: Two Korean Students Blather in a Coffee Shop in Seoul
Howard Waldman: Poem
Peggy Landsman: Three poems
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal: Two poems

AUTHOR IMITATION FICTION
Louise Norlie: Two stories (Jean Baudrillard and Henry James)
FEATURED FICTION
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Henry Long: Opera For the Ghost of a Dead Poet (Richard Brautigan)
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Douglas Thompson: Waiting for Columbus (Ray Bradbury)

REGULAR FICTION
Digby Beaumont: The Bridge
John Ward: Sweaters
Tom Sheehan: The Jerry Garcia Apple Orchard

REVIEWS
David McLean: A Review of Henry Long’s "Goat Love" (Book Review)
Ceris Dien and Henry Long: Dueling Book Reviews of David McLean's "hunger for mourning" (Book Review)
Alison Ross: Chao for the Soul (Music Review)
Steve Porter: Review of Michel Houellebecq's "The Possibility of an Island" (Book Review)

ESSAYS
Alison Ross: Weenie Roast

POLEMICS
Maryann Mann: The Heroics of Dennis Kucinich
Sheila Samples: The Last Founder Standing

SATIRE
Alison Ross: Presidential Perversions

VISUAL ART
R. Jill Fink: Funky Gourds and One Cool Birdhouse
Jeff Crouch: Five digital photographs
MJ: Editorial Cartoons