Issue #5

(released April 2009)

This is our One Year Anniversary issue! We highlighted our 4 Featured Writers from the previous year: Sophia Argryis, Renata MCormish, Rachel Custer and Nanette Rayman Rivera. 5 poems and 5 pieces of fiction were also chosen as our most memorable pieces, those writers are listed below.

**Poetry in this Issue:

Georgia Banks-Martin: "The Birth of Venus"
Heather Cadenhead: "A Coat on the Love Seat, Translated"
Nicole Cartwright Denison: "kiss at lake michigan, mid-february"
Lois P. Jones: "Demure"
Jennifer LeBlanc: "Edna"
Donal Mahoney: "The Peahen"
June Nandy: "mon amour"
Marian Veverka: "For All the Times that Might Have Been the Last Time"
J. Michael Wahlgren: "Seattle, WA"
Allen Weber: "Reconciled"


**Fiction in this Issue:

Eric Bennett: "Becoming Burning"
Jayt Catlin: "Morpheus in Carmine"
Nicola Field: "Mr. Bill"
Leslie Haynsworth: "Hunkering Down"
Elaine Rosenberg Miller: "Fishing in the Intercoastal"
Sarah Marie Miller: "strawberry jam."
Michael Peck: "A Field in Wyoming"
Donna D. Vitucci: "Matrimonial, September 1951"


**Retrospect Writers:

Tatevik Khurshudyan
Lisa Feinstein
Jana Russ
Jennifer LeBlanc
Benjamin Stainton
Dakota James
Marla Cordle
Ashley McAtee
Kori E. Frazier
Michelle Reale