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Issue #9   


(released May 2010)


**Featured writer in this issue: Karissa Morton.


**Poetry in this issue:

Taylor Copeland: "The Distance"
Beula Diasle: "New Lion"
Ryan Holden: "London 1818 CE"
Stephen Orr Manning: "Quilts"
Clive Matson: "Song Three"
Faith Mingus: "i don't belittle the weather anymore"
Heather Napualani Hodges: "The Failure of the Pony"
Rodney Nelson: "Divagation from Louise Gluck"
Alison Ross: "Kahlo Sky"
Gary Sokolow: "Last Days Along the Brooklyn El"


**Fiction in this issue:

John Eagle: "Redfish Redux"
Heather Fowler: "Anatomy of a Song"
Rion Amilcar Scott: "Postpartum"
Robin Stratton: "Elevator Justice"
Brenda Wilson Wooley: "Noel's Pictures"


**Challenge winners for string poems:


Bob Bradshaw: "Falling in Love with My Massage Therapist, a Contortionist"
Claire Rudy Foster: "Pearls"
Divya Rajan: "Every time you played"
Faith Mingus: "string."
Heather Napualani Hodges: "The thing was attached, (to child, its angry tree, each cold fruit)"
Joanne Faries: "The Cellist"
John Eagle: "A busted lace in a boot so black"
John M. Anderson: "Air on a G Theory/Brown paper pack-"