Volume 19, No. 1, Summer 2006
Volume 19, No. 1, Summer 2006
Excerpt: From A. Mary Murphy's paint my lips red
paint my lips red
and go out to the bar and look eager
is that what you want me to do
with a face that looks oldly
desperately frantic
and says take me home before my body caves in
...

Beth Pederson, "Fan of Foreign Origin", 2005, oil on canvas
Contributors
Julie T. Anderson
Dustin Godwin
Janeen Keelan
Linda King
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Marcie McCauley
Don McLellan
CaraLyn Morgan
A. Mary Murphy
Bobbie Ogletree
Susan Phillips
Mary Jane Ryals
Julia Schroeder
Valerie Stetson
Tanya Underwood
Changming Yuan
Maggie Ziegler
Feature artist: Beth Pederson