ISSUE TWIN-TEA

EDITOR'S SCRATCHING POST
Catatonically Speaking

POESIE
FEATURED POEM: For the Refugees of Katrina by Alan Britt
Three poems by George McKim
Poems are not just about words by J.S. Watts
First Poem in a While by Benjamin Haas
Two poems by Jason Ryberg
Three poems by Felino Soriano
status report by Richard Mason
Cold Blue Water by l'enfant terrible
Two poems by Lawrence Gladeview
Father God by Julie Ann
Only the Rumor by Sergio Ortiz
The Milk Cemetery by Philip Venzke
In the Sadness in Her Mind by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
The Funeral Procession by Margaret Beaver
A Self Portrait by Abigale Louis LeCavalier
20th Century by Yarrow Paisley
Two poems by Christopher Shipman
Three poems by David McLean
Of Dreams and Madness by Justin Lee Brown
Two poems by Michael Brandonisio
Two poems by Ally Malinenko
Three poems by Maxwell Mednick
Two poems by Michael Mc Aloran
Let's Talk About me by Jon Wesick
Fourth Generation Feral Cats by Laura McLaughlin
Skinned by George Anderson
The Blackness Coming by David Mac
She Had Always Been Able by Linda Leedy Schneider
Three poems by Bob Heman

APPRAISALS
The Terrifying Travesty That is Waiting for Superman: Before (Film Review) by Alison Ross
The Terrifying Travesty That is Waiting for Superman: After (Film Review) by Alison Ross
With the sound of grasses heaving: The Poetry of Marcus Reichert (Book Review) by Connie Stadler
The Surreality Show, or Rebelling Against the Real (Book Review of Surrealist Subversions) by Alison Ross
Carnivores Are Tasty, and The Black Angels Beat The Drums (CD Mini-reviews) by Alison Ross
Jane Shaw Holiday's Schrodinger’s Book of Cats and Cabbages (Book Review) by J.S. Watts
The Controversy-Courting "Kids" (Film Review) by Alison Ross

POLEMICS AND SATIRE
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell About Economic Bigotry (Polemic) by Alison Ross
Rat Legs on Pita Bread (Satire) by John A. Ward
Name Change for Writers’ Market Mag (Satire) by George Held
Civilization’s Wrong Turn Down ‘The Well-traveled Road’ (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young, PhD
The New York Times Disses the School of the Americas Protest (Polemic) by Alison Ross
Politics as Usual (Satire) by Jon Wesick
Hey - American People! (Polemic) by Sheila Samples
The Greatest Tragedy in the Course of Evolution (Polemic) by Edwin Young
How to Make a Pile of Slush (Satire) by Kindra J. Ferriabough
Pregnant (Satire) by Jacob Arsalan