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Since 1998, a journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories and essays edited by Ricardo Nirenberg.
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Issue #51, December 2012.

Happy Holidays!

"First Choice," a story by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
Poems by Geordie de Boer.
"Error Leads to Discovery" and other poems by Joseph Farley.
"Lucy of the Valley," a story by Rebecca Lu Kiernan with art by Bett Appel.
More from Timewave Zero and photos by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
"the violence of cycle" and more by Cody John Laplante.
"While I Waited There" and other poems by J.R. Solonche.
Poems by Tim Suermondt.
"Rain" and other poems by Davide Trame.
"A Line from Mamie van Doren" and more poems by Mark Young.

Issue #50, September 2012.

Two Self Portraits and other poems by John Amen.
Spanish Poems by Carlos Barbarito with translations by Ricardo Nirenberg.
Three New Poems by Christopher Barnes.
"A Doe Waits for Death" and other poems by Joyce S. Brown.
Poems by Billy Cancel.
Poems on the Letter Ψ by Michael Fisher.
"The Walk", a story by Stan Johannesen.
A Selection from Timewave Zero by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
Poems by Jude Cowan Montague.
"BFF", a story by Alexander Nirenberg.
"Uncle Abraham", a reminiscence by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"Luciana da Parma", a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
"Paris Notebook", poems and pictures by Sarah White.
Two Poetry Books reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg: "The Last Man" by R. L. Swihart, Kanev Books, 2012, and "The New Arcana" by John Amen and Daniel Y. Harris, NYQ Books, 2012.

Issue #49, June 2012.

Squog, a Short Story by Lynn Beighley.
Up and Down Horse, a Short Story by Ann Capozzoli.
Housing Bubble and Poems by Chris Crittenden.
Grey Bus and Three Collaborative Poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason.
The Half-Light of Credulity and Other Poems by Daniel Y. Harris.
Spooky and Other Poems by Robert Klein Engler.
Thirty Nine, a Parent, a Stockholder and Other Poems by Oliver Rice.
U.S.A. Revisited, an Essay on John Dos Passos by Fred Skolnik.
Five Myth Inspired Pieces and Other Poems by Josep Miquel Sobrer.
A Photograph of Muhammed Ali and Marianne Moore and Other Poems by Joel Solonche.

Issue #48, March 2012.

"Future Plans" and Other Poems by Anne Babson.
"All of these People with the Name Christopher Barnes Actually Exist", nine poems by Christopher Barnes.
"Cat Piss & Crucifixions" and Other Poems by Phil Brunetti.
"Broken Pipes", "Mourning Bells" and "A Love Poem to my Father" , poems by Janet Buck.
Ten Poems by Nicholas Klacsanzky.
"Cemetery Visit" and Other Poems by Miriam Kotzin.
Poems by Nicholas Messenger.
Ethical Triptych, stories by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"30 Dollars Poorer and Once Bitten..." and Other Poems by David Wanczyk.
"Victoria de los Angeles", a poem by Sarah White.

Issue #47, November 2011.

Five Poems by Christopher Barnes.
Pictures by Eleanor Bennett.
Poems from "Chants for the Fellaheen" and "Trekking to Texas", by Geordie de Boer.
Four Poems by Billy Cancel.
"Jonathan's Catch" and "The Acceptance of Ridinghood", two stories by Joachim Frank.
Five Poems in English translation and in the original Hebrew by Galit Hasan-Rokem.
Five Poems by Mary Mills.
"When Astrology Works (a true story)", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"Yves Bonnefoy Interprets Borges", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
Three Poems by Oliver Rice.

Issue #46, Summer 2011.

Six Poems and a Collage by Joyce Brown.
"The Drug Drama," a new poem by Janet I. Buck.
"Bye Bye Bertie," a story by Don Fredd.
Art by Rubén Grau.
"The Gnome of Venice," a story by Josepha Gutelius.
Three Poems by Rachael Jennings.
New Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
"In the Beginning was the Pun," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"Seven Peeks into Infinity," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"Egon Gleicher," a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
"Nabokov Writes His Wife From Coker College" by Sarah White.

Issue #45, March 2011.

Poems by Christopher Barnes
Three Poems by Stephen Bett
Poems by Robert Klein Engler
Four Poems by Thomas Fink
From Eucalyptus, by Charles Freeland
New Poems from Letters to the Bat by Rebecca Lu Kiernan
Three Poems by Miriam Kotzin
Four Poems by Francis Raven
Three Poems by Oliver Rice
Four Poems by Joel Solonche
"Our Rabbi" by Robert Wexelblatt
"The Devastation of the Indies" by Sarah White.

Congratulations to our contributor Tess Almendarez Lojacono! Her new novel, MILAGROS, has just appeared from Laughing Cactus Press, ISBN 978-0-9826243-4-0.
See the book at http://silverboomerbooks.com/draft/9780982624340-Perfect_Milagros.pdf

Issue #44, December 2010.

Three Poems by Geordie de Boer.
Four Poems by Joyce S. Brown.
Four Poems by Ricky Garni.
"The Shed", a story by Jeremy Griffin.
"Chips", a story by Connley Landers.
"Tecnología de la Barbarie", a story by Jorge Majfud, translated into English by Bruce Campbell.
Three Poems by Nicholas Messenger.
"The Trees Remember", a story by Michael Sauve.
"You Mean You're Allowed To Do That?", an essay by Sarah White.
"Alice Ages and Ages" by Sarah White, BlazeVox Books, Buffalo, NY 2010, reviewed by R. Nirenberg.
"O Amazonas Escuro" by Eugene K. Garber, Swank Books, 2010, reviewed by R. Nirenberg.
New books by Dion Farquhar and Rebecca Foust, briefly reviewed by R. Nirenberg.

Issue #43, Fall 2010.

Five Poems by David Kowalczyk.
"Illegals", a story in English and in Spanish by Jorge Majfud.
Two Poems by Wythe Marschall.
Two Stories by Penelope Mermall.
"Dmitri Shostakovich en Parque Patricios," a poem by Rodolfo Mattarollo with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"Regina's Sunday," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
Two Poems by Oliver Rice.
Two Poems by Sarah White.
"A Pure River", by John S. Williams, The Last Automat Press (www.thelastautomat.com), 2010. Review by R. Nirenberg.
Letters: from Robert Wexelblat and Ellaraine Lockie.

Issue #42, Summer 2010.

Three Poems by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
Three Poems by Christoper Barnes.
Poems by Alex Cigale.
"A Pre-Season Game," flash fiction by Daniel Gallik.
"Folks You Meet at the Rubbish Dump," a short story by Gavin McCall.
"The 2010 World Cup", a topical outburst by Ricardo Nirenberg.
Poems in Spanish and in English by Sergio Ortiz.
Poems by Oliver Rice.
"Why I'll Never Sail Again: Portrait of a Mutinous Landlubber," a short story by Marc Serpa Francoeur.
Poems by J.R. Solonche.
"The Valla Problemata," a poem by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.
"Different," a short story by Nick Sweet.

Issue #41, Spring 2010.

Anthology of Russian Minimalist and Miniature Poems; Part I, The Silver Age: translations and an introduction by Alex Cigale (multiple web pages.)
Five Short Pieces, by Charles Freeland.
"The Silence of the Falls: Niagara, The End of Language, and Francis Abbott’s Final Plunge," by R. Michael Gosselin.
"The Twilight of the Humanities," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
"The Story," a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
Four Poems by John Williams.
"The Yellow Room," by S.K. Johannesen, (Blaurock Press 2009), reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
A New Book by Carlos Barbarito "Un fuego bajo un cielo que huye" is available at http://www.bailedelsol.org. It just won the French Prix du Chasseur Abstrait 2010, and will soon be issued in a bilingual (French-Spanish) edition.