National 2007 Contents

Interview Persis M. Karim, editor, & Azin Arefi, Farnoosh Seifoddini, & Mojdeh Marashi, contributors Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora Disaster on the Horizon (poetry) Persis M. Karim Blood (fiction) Azin Arefi Poetry South Florida: Separation Reality Virginia Aronson Snow Carl Auerbach Leaving Angela Averitt Arborglyphs Thomas Robert Barnes The Size of Apples Jackie Bartley Asclepiads J. E. Bennett I Imagine My Father's Dying Request Mark Brazaitis Love Is Cumbersome To Calculate John Burton The Kinship of Deer Patrick Carrington For My Grandmother Teresa Turner Chang Nature and Art Mary P. Chatfield Voice At The Back Of The Mind Mary P. Chatfield Labyrinths Robert Cooperman Father Swarat Matt Dennison The Assault James Doyle Cherry Blossoms? Yes! Sharon Doyle History Exam Brent Fisk Which hand, doctor? Kate Giles What It Means Kate Giles Where Am I? Arthur Gottlieb The Woman Behind Every Man Arthur Gottlieb Devoid C. L. Gunther The Cloud and The Rain K.S. Hardy Everything Bad About Being A Girl Nicole Hardy Recipe for Immortality Nicole Hardy Like a Nude in a Cold Room Lois Marie Harrod Driving South Van C. Hartmann Old Bones Van C. Hartmann Hanging by a Thread William Hengst Salax Alicia Hoffman Mexican Dwarf in his Hotel Room, N.Y.C. Ruth Holzer One Winter Morning Zebulon Huset Candles for All the Dead Boys Mary Kolesnikova I Was Just Trying to Get Drunk Michael Kozlowsky To The Daughter Who Followed Her Heart Christine Kravetz The Bridge Eli Langner Paso Doble David Lewitzky It's There, Sometimes Not by the Side of the Bed Lyn Lifshin More Mother and Daughter Photographs Lyn Lifshin Look Joel Long Broom Tree Richard Luftig El Primo Guadalupe Garcia McCall Remember Me Guadalupe Garcia McCall The Clinker Bob Meszaros Where Are the Dolls? Shari O'Brien Once in Hiroshima Shari O'Brien [Untitled] Simon Perchik Katrina Daniel Polikoff Hadrian's Wall Doug Ramspeck Photo of Me at Almost Three Dian Duchin Reed October David Rogers Casablanca Marina Rubin Friday Marina Rubin Crows Maureen A. Sherbondy Summer Steve Shilling Cooling Arizona Mark Smith Steel Band Night Noel Smith Youthful Love Noel Smith After Brain Surgery: An Airing Mike Traber The Departure Karla Ungurean New Black Shoes Anthony Walstorm Moroccan Papers: The Whitewasher Anthony Walstorm A Poem Goes Missing from his Collected Work Jonathan Wells Zixingche Arianne Zwartjes Prose Wanna Bet? (essay) Corie Adjmi As Seen On Oprah Beverly Akerman Knowing Nandi (essay) Susan Bauer Wanting What You Have William Cass The Art Colony Joan Connor Happy Hour Jonathan Evison Below the Waterline (essay) Brian Friesen The Mark the Game Leaves Alain Kerfs I'd Do Anything For You, Dear Steve Lindahl The Dead of I-40 Grant Maher Chain Reaction Caroline Marwitz Twelve (essay) Jennifer McGaha In Sickness and In Health Peter Obourn Ice Michael Sheehan The Real and True Story Chad Simpson Foreclosure Matthew Ira Swaye A Second Opinion Richard Thieme Between Heaven and Earth Richard Willis Officer of The Day Paul Witherington

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