May 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
CONTEST
The 2011 Collagist Chapbook Contest Results
FICTION
[this town]
J.A. Tyler
Hold Steady
Sarah Norek
School
Mathias Svalina
Throw Your Hands in the Air
Ofelia Hunt
EXCERPTS
Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate
by Johannes Göransson
Us
by Michael Kimball
POETRY
Elegy for my Twenties
Kris Says
Russel Swensen
Father, some nights I dream of you, and
Joseph A. W. Quintela
Paradiso
Emilia Phillips
NON-FICTION
Doing Without
Brian Evenson
BOOK REVIEWS
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
reviewed by Renée E. D'Aoust
The Opportune Moment, 1855 by Patrik Ouředník
reviewed by Adam Parker Cogbill
Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls by Cris Mazza
reviewed by Melanie Page
Normally Special by xTx
reviewed by Gavin Pate
Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
reviewed by Anna Clark
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES