Issue #4

(released January 2009)

**Featured writer: Nanette Rayman Rivera. Four poems, including "I saw him,""my sundress - my self,""Sevenling - banana works," and "vinegar-girls-to-women won’t hire me ," and an exclusive excerpt of her memoir.

**Poetry in this issue:

Mahogany L. Browne: "stratigrapher"
Jane Crown: "Breath of Bastet"
Amy L. George: "After"
Mary Johnston: "Meat"
Jennifer LeBlanc: "Comparison"
Sandee Lyles: "In His Absence", "The Wondrous Life of Laundry"
Corey Mesler: "The Devil Takes the Hindmost"
Renata McCormish: "Absent Man"
Benjamin Stainton: "Violet"
Shawn Nacona Stroud: "Finishing"
S. Thomas Summers: "This is My Part"


**Fiction in this issue:
Grace Andreacchi: "A Small White Dog"
Kori E. Frazier: "How to Peel an Avocado"
Dennis Hiatt: "Needs From the Forest"
Miriam Matzeder: "Its Chest Beats, All White and Soft and Imperative"
Elaine Rosenberg Miller: "The Schviga"
Meg Pokrass: "Dog Mornings"
Paula Ray: "Calloused Hand Print"
Michelle Reale: "Wild Life"


**Three literary reviews:
Rowena Cherry: Knight's Fork
Anthony Pritchard: Mirror Realms
Oneal Walters: The Age Begins


**Contest Winner: Sophia Argyris for her poem, "Breaking the Winter"