DECEMBER 2012

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SPECIAL FEATURE
Short plays, Choreo-poems and/or Hybrid Performance Texts
GUEST EDITED 
BY IDRIS GOODWIN

EDITOR'S NOTE

JAMILA WOODS
theSHARK

CLINNESHA D. SIBLEY
#communicate

FATIMAH ASGHAR
Forgiveness

"My hope is that you and a few friends will read these aloud, as if they were a songbook with shape notes. Pop open a bottle of something, and say these words. Or just as I did, read them slowly—with your mental director filling the stage with performers, lights and sound."
—Idris Goodwin, Guest Editor

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Poetry

RACHEL MCKIBBENS
untitled
poem for the smallest ghost

PORTIA ELAN
Things I Have to Say About My Sister

NATE MARSHALL
god made the hundreds, man made it wild
The Blast

LYNNE PROCOPE
The Byrd poems part 1.

KYLAN RICE
Paris Preparedness Class
At Providence Hospital

CYNTHIA MANICK
Passing

CARA DEES
Three Dreams

Reviews & Interviews

Interview with Vievee Francis 
by Laura Steadwell, Poetry Editor

Maybe the Saddest Thing by Marcus Wicker
Review by Kendra DeColo, Book Review Editor

Horse in the Dark by Vievee Francis
Review by Lindsay Miller, Book Reviewer

Wine for a Shot Gun by Marty McConnell
Review by Jacob Victorine, Book Reviewer

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Call for Submissions: SEX

"Because sex is so very common and weighted by norms, it tends to come with a pre-approved vocabulary and set of moral standards. I love poems that defy those standards and make their own vocabulary, poems that use sex as a lens through which to understand ourselves and our relationships, poems that want to communicate the human as a wanting creature."
 —Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan, Guest Editor

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